Desert rat explained

Desert Rat or desert rat or its plural may refer to:

Rodents

• Gerbils (Gerbillinae) of the deserts of Africa and Asia
• Kangaroo rats (Dipodomys) from North America
• Natal multimammate mouse (Mastomys natalensis) from Africa

Military

• Desert Rats, the British 7th Armoured Division in World War II
• The Desert Rats (film), 1953 war film starring Richard Burton
• Operation Desert Rat, a military offensive of the Laotian Civil War

Other

• Desert Research and Technology Studies, or Desert RATS, a set of field trials conducted by NASA
• Desert Rat Scrap Book, a California humor publication (1945–1967) focusing on the American Southwest
• Desert Rats, a book by Charles Lewis Camp

See also

• Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps, a 2004 real time strategy game based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II
• Desert woodrat, a small species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America
• The Rat Patrol, an American TV program (1966–1968) loosely based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II
• The Rats of Tobruk, nickname for Allied soldiers holding the Libyan port of Tobruk while under siege in World War II