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Godzilla would prove no match for the might of the US military, experts have said in a tongue-in-cheek explanation of how they would fell the fictional beast.

Making a return to the big screen in Godzilla: King of the Monsters, the Japanese creation, which first appeared in cinema in 1954, is a giant prehistoric reptile with immense strength, supposedly empowered by nuclear radiation and ready to bring destruction to humanity.

However, according to Air Force specialists, it would stand little chance against modern military technology and would quickly be dispatched to the depths of the Pacific from whence it came.

The US Air Force's 18th Wing in Japan, which is America's largest combat wing, believes Godzilla would be destroyed with four helicopters loaded with .50-caliber machine guns, Senior Airman Mark Hermann told Air & Space magazine

While, in an anonymous interview with War is Boring, one military scientist said: 'It has and needs eyes, the first thing we need to do it blind it.'  And the military has munitions capable of doing just that, he pointed out.  

Graphic shows how the US Air Force would deal with an attack by the fictional beast Godzilla

Godzilla would prove no match for the might of the US military, experts have said in an explanation of how they would fell the fictional beast. Making a return to the big screen in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (pictured right), the monster, which first appeared in cinemas in 1954 (pictured left), is a giant prehistoric reptile with immense strength, supposedly empowered by nuclear radiation and ready to bring destruction to humanity. Center is a low budget incarnation produced in Japan in 2004

'Unguided rockets filled with white phosphorous would do the trick. Nothing fancy required. Unload from a couple of rotary-wing gunships, a huge barrage, repeat as needed.'

Adding: 'If the eyes are organic, they will be toast,' the expert added.  'If they are machine sensors, the heat of [white phosphorus] will damage or destroy them for sure.' 

But Godzilla, which was created in the aftermath of the devastation of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima atomic bombings by the United States, which killed roughly 225,000 people including 12 American POWs and effectively ended the Second World War, is supposedly capable of breathing a fire-like blue beam of energy - meaning it could down helicopters. 

Godzilla 1999: In some carnations, the beast is supposedly capable of breathing a fire-like blue beam of energy - meaning it could down US helicopters. This low budget version of Godzilla was produced in Japan for the B movie Godzilla: 2000

Godzilla 2014: The military expert believes this is a limited weapon, though, as it is only capable of firing in one direction at a time. Meaning, helicopters attacking from different angles would have a good chance of blinding the monster before being targeted

However, the military expert believes this is a limited weapon, as it is only capable of firing in one direction at a time. Meaning, helicopters attacking from different angles would have a good chance of blinding the monster before being targeted.

And once the beast is blind and defenseless, the military is more than capable of delivering the killer blow with the help of two B-2 stealth bombers each loaded with a Massive Ordnance Penetrator.

The 30,000-pound, precision-guided bunker-buster - one of the biggest munitions ever - filled with a deadly RDX explosive mix and designed to slice through solid rock would cut down Godzilla like a knife through butter, the expert predicted.

And, as is typical air force strategy, there would be two separate sorties minutes apart using laser guidance to ensure maximum damage to the wounded monster.

Once the beast is blind and defenseless, the military is more than capable of delivering the killing blow with the help of two B-2 stealth bombers loaded with one Massive Ordnance Penetrator

'Equipped with laser designators, the team illuminates a point on the massive body that will present a nice near-perpendicular aspect to the glide angle of the descending bomb.' 

'The bomb will penetrate the beast, burying itself in its depths, whether they be organic or machine. Godzilla will be like a giant tub of play-dough,' the scientist said. 

'With a delay fuse, the blast will have a devastating effect - tons of RDX turning its guts, lungs and mechanisms to plasma, steam and mist.' 

Despite the grisly scene following Godzilla's demise, the military clean up wouldn't be too arduous a task either.

'There may be a hazmat mess afterwards,' the scientist explained. 'But there will be no nuclear explosion. Local radiological clean-up. at worst.'