![]() The other scrap material is piled up outside the warehouse and eventually recycled. The engines, which are quickly sold off to German engineering and electronics companies, are the most valuable spare parts. With three workers paired to a single tank, the entire dismantling process takes around two to three days-much of which is done by hand. ![]() At any given time, there are around three tanks being dismantled in two adjacent warehouses. With seemingly endless neat rows of green tanks, Koch's team of around a dozen technical labourers have plenty to do. Koch's firm buys the tanks from private German defence manufacturers Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, as well as from the German Armed Forces, or Bundeswehr. Other parts go back to the manufacturers or the defence ministry but the majority of it disappears in the blast furnace," said Peter Koch, managing director of the company. ![]() This means they are used for scrap metal. "Most of the tanks here are being recycled. The 1970s "Marder" combat tanks are the latest batch set to be destroyed by Battle Tank Dismantling GmbH Koch, a firm that disassembles old German military vehicles. Nestled in the rolling, green farmland of Germany's eastern state of Thuringia, over 300 former West German battle tanks are parked idly in an expansive scrap yard.
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