Landcruisers were the Race Conquest Fleet's equivalent of the tank. They were particularly deadly opponents of their human counterparts, equipped with 4 or 5 inch guns with an auto loader and composite armor. Human armies had to expend enormous numbers of their own tanks and trained crews for each landcruiser destroyed. The Wehrmacht, which possessed Earth's best tanks and tank crews, lost five or six of their state-of-the-art Panther and Tiger panzers for each landcruiser destroyed, while the United States Army suffered even greater losses: each landcruiser kill cost the Americans a dozen of their tanks. The Japanese Army fared worst against landcruisers, as their primary tank was derisively nicknamed the "One-Shot Firestarter" by the Race's fighting males.