Tank Warfare Quotes

In 1942, the Germans were running out of fuel. They were advancing so fast across the grasslands, the hot grasslands of south Russia, and the Russians were running out of tanks. And so both of them turned to cavalry, and there were great cavalry battles on the grasslands.

A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!

Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from 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.

Why don’t Israelis stop the tanks and fight us with rifles so the fight would be equal?

Tanks are new and special weapon-newer than, as special, and certainly as valuable as the airplane.

They are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender.

General, your tank is a powerful vehicle it smashes down forests and crushes a hundred men. but it has one defect: it needs a driver.

Space is tight inside a tank: very close confines, and you're permanently banging. Like in Brad Pitt's new movie 'Fury' - the clanking of metal is all you hear.

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.

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.

The engine of the tank is a weapon just as the main-gun.

My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.

Whenever in future wars the battle is fought, armored troops will play the decisive role.

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

The soldiers were trained to strap explosives onto their bodies and throw themselves under the American tanks that were expected in the invasion of Japan. We were a military hospital and were required to so train medical orderlies.