If the tanks succeed, then victory follows. ~ Heinz Guderian

Type 90 MBT of the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force firing during the Fuji Firepower Review 2009

A tank is an armored fighting vehicle intended as a primary offensive weapon in front-line ground combat. Tank designs are a balance of heavy firepower, strong armor, and good battlefield mobility provided by tracks and a powerful engine; usually their main armament is mounted in a turret. They are a mainstay of modern 20th and 21st century ground forces and a key part of combined arms combat.

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• We call ourselves the "6th Panzer Army", because we've only got 6 Panzers left.
  • Sepp Dietrich in early 1945, as quoted by Mitcham, Samuel W. (2006). Panzers in Winter: Hitler's Army and the Battle of the Bulge. p. 166.

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• Der Motor des Panzers ist ebenso seine Waffe wie die Kanone.
  • The engine of the Panzer is a weapon just as the main-gun.
    • Heinz Guderian, as quoted in Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945 (1965) by Oskar Munzel, p. 159

• If the tanks succeed, then victory follows.
  • Heinz Guderian, as quoted in Panzerkrieg : The Rise and Fall of Hitler's Tank Divisions (2002) by Peter McCarthy and Mike Syron, p. 33

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