Military Weapon Quotes

The military weapon is but one of the means that serve the purposes of war: one out of the assortment which grand strategy can employ.

I spent a career carrying typically either an M16 or an M4 Carbine. An M4 Carbine fires a .223 caliber round, which is 5.56 mm at about 3000 feet per second.

Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the 'liberating' kind.

A tiny dark object came sailing out of the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, "Grenade!" He covered his face. His troops hit the ground. When the thing did not explode, Polybotes bent down cautiously and picked it up. He roared in outrage. "A Ding Dong? You dare insult me with a Ding Dong?" He threw the cake back at the shop, and it vaporized in the light.

When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.

The bayonet is a weapon with a worker at each end.

As the aeroplane is the most mobile weapon we possess, it is destined to become the dominant offensive arm of the future.

Bayonets cannot weave cloth.

I do not consider firearms as weapons. When I think weapon, I mean bazooka.

There has been a great deal said about a 3,00-mile high-angle rocket. The people who have been writing these things that annoy me, have been talking about a 3,000-mile high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon which would land exactly on a certain target, such as a city.