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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6167221" data-attributes="member: 8835">I was joking when I suggested launching rocket fists at the kaiju... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Mainly that it is cheaper/faster to build the fists and shoot them at the monster than to build the whole robot.In other avenues of approach, consider:viral attack.  Odds are good we'll knock off a chunk of flesh during an early attack.  With the bio-sample, we can deduce a bio-warfare solution to kill the kaiju.  Then we'll just send a crop-duster overhead and spray the monster down with Kaiju-B-Gon.Avatar Redux:building a mecha requires huge factories to forge and assemble the parts.  Growing our own kaiju based on DNA samples and replacing their brain with a neuro transmitter wired up to a pilot hiding in Cheyenne Mountain is a bit simpler.Send in the Drones:Big animals ignore tiny insects.  Send in a drone to fly up behind it, land, and then deploy a burrowing machine to drill in and head for the spinal cord/brain. the drill could be a plasma torch or some other sci-fi cutting tool.  If you believe in mechs, then we can work small scale robotics to solve the problem in a stealthier attack.Poison Pills:Find out what they eat (people, skyscrapers, etc).  Plant some tasty treats.  Kaiju Eats.  Boom.  the insides of most critters are not as tough as their outsides.Move Away:The best defense is you no be there.  Move tokyo and other cities underground (or to flying sky cities).  These monsters seem drawn to the cities, so stop living in them.  Unless these monsters also like burrowing or can fly or swim, park your city where they can't go.  I would bet the Kaiju can't swim, they walk along the ocean floor.  So float your city in the middle of the deepest part of the ocean, and you'll be fine.</blockquote>

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