Tank_graveyard

Tank graveyard

Tank graveyard

Term for an area containing derelict armored vehicles

The term tank graveyard or tank cemetery refers to an area containing a number of derelict armored vehicles, generally as a result of warfare.

Iraqi tanks in the Kuwaiti desert, 2004

While they often are only a last resting place for destroyed, broken down or outdated equipment, tank graveyards can be a source of parts to produce new or restored vehicles. Ukraine has for instance been able to field hundreds of new tanks to fight in the Russo-Ukrainian War by cannibalizing those sitting in graveyards since the Soviet era.[1]

Notable tank graveyards

References

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    Slate.fr (2015-09-28). "En Ukraine, une usine retape des tanks soviétiques pour lutter contre les prorusses". Slate.fr (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-04.
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    (in Croatian) Vukovar - Junački otpor trideset puta jačem agresoru Archived 2008-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
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    Stephen Peter Rosen (1996). Societies and Military Power: India and Its Armies. Cornell University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-8014-3210-3.
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