Swords may be driven into ploughshares when they've finished their fighting, but tanks are often left to rust, in graveyards of military vehicles or on the battlefields where they fell.


The tank in the picture above is on Flamenco Beach, Culebra Island, Puerto Rico, and the photo was taken by Jami Dwyer.



Soviet T-62s from the Soviet-Afghan War near Kandahar, Afghanistan


(via Kenny Holston/U.S. Air Force)

Another military graveyard in Afghanistan




(via Ilya Varlamov)

Near Paderborn, Germany




(via Multi-Board)

An armor repair base (known as Repair Base 77) in Ussuriysk, Russia, opened in 1940, and went bankrupt some years ago





(via KFSS)

Dozens of old tanks near Chita, Russia



(via DarkBear-ru)

Tank and Truck Graveyard, near Asmara, Eritrea





(via Marco Diana, vartumashvili and Ilya Varlamov)

Soviet tanks at the Kabul Military Training Center, Kabul, Afghanistan


(via Swampfox_Redleg and War History Online)

Relics of the Gulf War (1990-1991) in Kuwait



(via Natalya Marquand/1000amazingplaces)

Vehicle Graveyard inside the Chernobyl Zone and some tanks used during the cleanup of Chernobyl, Ukraine




(via Google Maps, vwvortex and Nicholas Lativy)

Wrecked tanks are seen close to the road that leads to the village of Imber on December 31, 2011 on Salisbury Plain, England


The church of St Giles along with the rest of the village was evacuated in December 1943 by the military for training US soldiers preparing for the D-Day invasion and villagers were told at the time they would be allowed to return in six months. However despite public appeals the villagers hopes were never realised and to this day it remains in the control of the Ministry of Defence.


Despite Imber's location in the middle of a high explosive 'impact area' in the Salisbury Plain military training zone, the MoD grants limited public access to the village which includes several days over the Christmas period.


(Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

An overhaul depot in Kharkiv, Ukraine with silently rusting T-64s, T-80s, T-72s, and some engines





(via Paul-itk)

Abandoned battle tanks before scrapping in Germany



(via Batram)

A scrapyard at Camp Taji (or Camp Cooke), Iraq



(via The National Guard, Live From Baghdad and The Pine City Pioneer)

An American tank destroyed by Viet Congs during Vietnam War


(via Nik Azwaa Azmi)

A Soviet PT-76 amphibious light tank from the Indochina War in Northern Laos


(via PTD Phonsavan)

A T-34-85 near Ahmad Shah Massoud's (1953-2001) tomb in Afghanistan, 2008


(via Nicholas Dickson)

A tank from the Guinea-Bissau Civil War (1998-1999) in Bissau, 2003


(via Mariomassone)

A T-55 used by Serbian military near Prizren, Kosovo in 2005


(via Mika Rantanen)

An Israeli M50 Super Sherman on the Lebanese border


(via Kenyh)

The destroyed remains of Iraqi T-54, T-55, Type 59 or Type 69 Main Battle Tanks, and two armoured recovery vehicles (a Chinese-made Type 653 and a Polish-made WZT-2) in a former Iraqi military complex


(via U.S. Marine Corps)