坦克,和其他兵器一样,是战争的产物。第一次世界大战初期,机枪、铁丝网、堑壕广泛用于战场,使攻守双方的“天平”向“守”的一方倾斜。因而,迫切需要一种进攻性武器,以打破阵地战的僵局。而近代内燃机、履带、火炮和装甲技术的发展,为这种新式武器的诞生,提供了物质基础。于是,坦克应运而生。 Tanks, like other weapons, are the product of the war. In the early days of World War I, machine guns, barbed wires and trenches were widely used in battlefields to tilt the “balances” of both the offensive and defensive sides to one side of the “keep”. Thus, there is an urgent need for an offensive weapon to break the deadlock in positional warfare. The development of modern internal combustion engines, crawler belts, artillery and armor technologies has provided the material basis for the birth of this new type of weapon. Thus, the tank came into being.