Tank graveyard
Topic: Engineering
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Short description: 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.
While they often are only a last resting place for destroyed, broken down or outdated equipment, tank graveyards can be a source of parts to produce new or restored vehicles.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
- Vukovar, Croatia (Battle of Vukovar,[2] Croatian War of Independence)
- Kabul, Afghanistan (Soviet–Afghan War)
- Khemkaran,[3] India (1965 India Pakistan War)
- Chawinda, Pakistan (1965 India Pakistan War)
- Longewala, India (1971 India Pakistan War )
- Highway of Death, north of Kuwait City, Kuwait (1991, Operation Desert Storm)
- Asmara, Eritrea (Eritrean War of Independence)
References
- ↑ Slate.fr (2015-09-28). "En Ukraine, une usine retape des tanks soviétiques pour lutter contre les prorusses" (in fr). http://www.slate.fr/story/106941/ukraine-usine-retape-tanks-sovietiques-lutter-prorusses.
- ↑ (in Croatian) Vukovar - Junački otpor trideset puta jačem agresoru
- ↑ Stephen Peter Rosen (1996). Societies and Military Power: India and Its Armies. Cornell University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-8014-3210-3. https://archive.org/details/societiesmilitar00rose/page/246.
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