During the Cold War years, many people feared the possible outbreak of nuclear war, but conventional warfare was not neglected.<\/p>\n
Both NATO and Warsaw Pact member armies equipped themselves with large numbers of tanks<\/strong>, in anticipation that it would be as important a weapon as it was in World War II. One of the largest armored parks in the Atlantic Alliance was that of West Germany.<\/strong> Its Army received more than 1,100 M-47 Patton (1951) battle tanks from the United States, and later that country manufactured its own models, starting with the Leopard 1 (1965), acquiring more than 2,400 units.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the 1980s, the West German Army began to renew its armored fleet with the most modern Leopard 2s, so that its predecessors were left behind. A considerable part of them was sold to other countries.<\/strong> Others rest today in tank graveyards and training camps, being used as targets. Last year, Lithuanian urban explorer Pamir\u0161tos Vietos<\/a> visited a tank graveyard in Germany containing 24 vehicles in all: a Leopard 1 and 23 M-47s, lined up in four equal rows of six units each.<\/strong> He showed them in the following video:<\/p>\n
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