Tank graveyard
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
Notable tank graveyards
- Vukovar, Croatia (Battle of Vukovar,[1] Croatian War of Independence)
- Tank Graveyard (Kabul), Afghanistan (Soviet–Afghan War)
- Khemkaran,[2] India (1965 India Pakistan War)
- Chawinda, Pakistan (1965 India Pakistan War)
- Highway of Death, north of Kuwait City, Kuwait (1991, Operation Desert Storm)
- Asmara, Eritrea (Eritrean War of Independence)
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- (in Croatian) Vukovar - Junački otpor trideset puta jačem agresoru Archived 2008-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
- Stephen Peter Rosen. Societies and Military Power: India and Its Armies. Cornell University Press. p. 246. ISBN 0-8014-3210-3.
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