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[[File:military mashup machine 1871.jpg|link=Supreme Commander|frame|A Submersible Land Battleship Aircraft Carrier Factory Shield Generator.]]
{{quote|''Wot's faster than a warbuggy, more killy than a warbike, and flies through da air like a bird? I got no bleedin' idea, but I'm gonna find out.''
|'''[[Funetik Aksent|Kog da Flymek]]''', pioneer of the [[Warhammer 40,000|Deffkopta]].}}
In the military, innovation has driven military conquest as someone found new ways to do something that was better than what came before. However, in [[Speculative Fiction]], it seems that a lot of people have decided [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|combining previous concepts into one über-machine]] is easier than [[Creative Sterility|coming up with something original]].
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The [[Base on Wheels|Land Battleship]] is a landgoing vehicle bristling with heavy artillery, generally the equivalent of a naval vessel's guns only on land, or rather, a ''really'' big tank. Often used in deserts.
=== [[Anime]]
* ''[[Gundam]]'' has a slight love affair with these, which have featured from the beginning to the more recent ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]''. Perhaps the most bizarre version was the Battleships of the [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Zanscare Empire's]] land forces, such as the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130725034859/http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/v/adrastea.jpg Adrastea-class], which were essentially naval ships on enormous motorcycle wheels.
** The ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' spinoff ''[[Gundam SEED Astray]]'' shows that that universe's land battleships are ''amphibious''; though designed specifically for land combat, they use an exotic "scale system" that works just as well on water as on land. ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' reverts to the relatively more conventional "giant tank" with tracked propulsion in the form of the [http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/seed-destiny/hannibal.htm Hannibal class].
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Aren't just tanks that can travel on water, but often are entirely submersible until they surface on the beach.
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Perhaps taking the concept from the other direction, the aquatic [[Zoids]] known as War Sharks are shown in the third anime series as being capable of [[Sand Is Water|swimming through the ground]].
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== [[The Battlestar]] ==
Starships in most [[Space Opera]] series, including ''[[Star Wars]]'', ''[[Babylon 5]]'', and both versions of ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', tend to be a [[Recycled in Space|space-borne]] hybrid of a modern naval battleship and a carrier, possessing heavy armor and lots of large guns as well as a sizable fighter compliment. Operating in space alleviates a lot of the conflicts in design that prohibit this combination in real life (need for a runway and elevators, having a large portion of the vessel's surface be unavailable due to being underwater, and the noise of the heavy guns giving the deck crew shellshock)
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato]]'' takes this to its logical conclusion, by taking the World War II battleship ''Yamato'', fixing it, adding a ([[Trope Namer|the]]) [[Wave Motion Gun]], and putting it in space. It still works on water too.
** And, true to trope, it also has hangars for a squadron of starfighters.
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** Imperial tanks in [[Empire From the Ashes]] use a fully-functional gravitonic drive, and can hit Mach 2 in atmosphere. [[Lightning Bruiser|They are also heavily shielded]], and capable of deploying more conventional tracks for increased stability and decreased power budget.
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* [[Humongous Mecha]] in most Real Robot settings seem to be mashups of your average infantry soldier and an armored tank or jet fighter.
* The Mobile Armours of ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' are often even straighter examples: Large non-humanoid units, built with the same technology as Mobile Suits, that acted as more specific machines like submarines, flying tanks, land battleships, and more.
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