Quotes About Tanks

given the startling superiority of much of the Red Army's weaponry, the Wehrmacht needed an entire new generation of tanks and infantry weapons.

Learn all the handicrafts', said the Mahatma, 'that's the way to peaceful independence. If you use rifles and guns and tanks, it is a foolish thing.

Who would have predicted... that Dubcek, who brought the tanks in in Czechoslovakia in 1968 is now being proclaimed a hero in Czechoslovakia. Unbelievable.

.....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party.

We got 16,000 wonderful vehicles. We got all the steel that we make our tanks out of. Of course, we couldn't have done without Western aid.

It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

Light tanks top out around Tier V. That means that there are no Tier VI, VII, VIII, etc. light tanks.

the furious firepower of the 16 Panzer Division was turned on to our positions. … There was a shout 'Tanks in front!

As of January 1945 on any given day about 85 percent of some 864 Alpha calutron tanks operated to produce 258 grams—9 ounces—of 10 percent enriched product; at the same time 36 Beta tanks converted the accumulated Alpha product to 204 grams—7.2 ounces—per day of 80 percent enriched U235, sufficient enrichment to make a bomb.

It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you're on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up -- planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that's all you need -- and a lot of heart.

Nor was Iraq's combat experience in the October War any more impressive: the armoured division that arrived at the Golan front ten days after the war began was ambushed by Israeli forces and lost some 100 tanks within a few hours.

The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.

From when I was a young boy, I read books on weapons and tanks and combat. I was so interested in the army.

Tanks being deployed far forward is an indication of offensive action; tanks in depth is an indication of defensive action.

Making a pilot is never a seamless process. If it is, it usually tanks.

It's hard to store natural gas. And it does require big storage tanks. So it doesn't work very well on passenger cars.

I like exotic guys who have a lot of sexual energy. I drive army tanks and I snowboard, so he has to keep up.

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

The children of the world, what they want and what they need are health clinics and schools, not tanks or armed helicopters or fighter jets.

Beyond Cina and the Athenaeum stretched Pia?a Revolu?iei, the vast square holding the former royal palace and Communist Party headquarters, where tanks had rolled and the streets had run with blood during the uprising against Ceau?escu in December 1989, the singular event which terminated the Cold War in Europe.

I was an engineer with Fairbanks Morse, Mr. President. I helped design some of the engines in their locomotives before the war, but then transferred my knowledge to the engines used in the Grant and Lee tanks, many of which were sent to the British." FDR was once again intrigued by what he heard. "The engine that pulls my train is a Fairbanks Morse locomotive." Brock beamed. "Yes it is, sir. Engine 978.

American tanks were sent to Checkpoint Charlie as a show of strength. Soviet tanks appeared there at about five in the evening on the twenty-seventh. The British soon deployed two antitank guns to support the Americans, while all the French troops in West Berlin remained safely in their barracks. For

Tank crews showed little sense of urgency—"Everybody appeared to treat the disabled tanks with the same kind of warm-hearted affection an old-time cavalryman might lavish on his horse," the Army's official history acknowledged. Not until 2:30 A.M. on Sunday, November 5, just before moonrise, were the stalled Shermans finally shoved over the brink into the gorge.