The role of the military is to be an efficient fighting machine.

Being an efficient and deadly fighting machine, it seemed, was a hard habit to break.

Yet when in action he was the perfect fighting machine with a total disregard for his own personal safety.

I trained you to be the greatest fighting machine in the Freehold.

The purchase of the first fighting machine on 9 July 1882 was a hand pump.

Is a warrior mentality essential to an effective fighting machine?

Then Blade had no more time to think, only to react like the superb fighting machine he was.

Do you want to sacrifice a hundred of the best fighting machines?

His great ships were no longer the fine fighting machines they had been, nor did they look like it.

"Arguably, a mix of the two would create the ultimate fighting machine."