page_title: The Tank Museum
section_title: Battlegroup Afghanistan
hierarchical_section_title: The Tank Museum / Exhibition halls / Battlegroup Afghanistan
caption_attribution_description: English: Polish built, Iraqi modified T-55AD modification 77 Main Battle Tank of 5th Iraqi Mechanised Division at Bovington Tank Museum.
context_page_description: The Tank Museum is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile north of the village of Wool and 12 miles west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of tanks and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world. It includes Tiger 131, the only working example of a German Tiger I tank, and a British First World War Mark I, the world's oldest surviving combat tank. It is the museum of the Royal Tank Regiment and the Royal Armoured Corps and is a registered charity.
context_section_description: This hall contains the Battlegroup Afghanistan exhibition. The men of the Royal Armoured Corps who have been involved in some of the fiercest fighting since World War Two.
  Featured tanks: Conqueror, Chieftain (which is accessible), Challenger 1 and TOG2.
caption: Iraqi T-55.
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