What does a tank graveyard mean to you in your game?

[dragoner]

My first thought with the term "tank graveyard" is basically a stockpile of mothballed military equipment. This is a real thing that exists in many places, both with tanks and other items.

If I was a player and was told I came across one, the first thing I would investigate is why the tanks (or other equipment) were mothballed. Sometimes it's because they're destroyed (like the post-WWII plane graveyard scenes in The Best Years Of Our Lives). Sometimes they're just decommissioned because there's new equipment. And sometimes tanks are mothballed immediately after manufacturing due to over production. Depending in the situation, a tank graveyard could be a dangerous dump or a playground of free firepower.

A lot of our equipment dumps, and the Soviets, were parked the way they were for verification purposes after the strategic forces limitation treaty in the 90's. We both watched with satellites.

 

[Zardnaar]

A lot of our equipment dumps, and the Soviets, were parked the way they were for verification purposes after the strategic forces limitation treaty in the 90's. We both watched with satellites.

7000 tanks on the open down to under 600 now.

You can see them on commercial satellites.