• The Desert Rats, nickname for the British 7th Armoured Division
  British 7th Armoured Division
  The 7th Armoured Division was a British armoured division which saw service during the Second World War where its exploits made it famous as the Desert Rats....
  
  
• The Desert Rats
  The Desert Rats (film)
  The Desert Rats is a 1953 American war film about the World War II siege of Tobruk. It stars Richard Burton and was directed by Robert Wise.-Plot:...
  
  , 1953 war film starring Richard Burton
• Desert rat, old name for the Sumal
• Desert rat, old common name for the gerbil
  Gerbil
  A gerbil is a small mammal of the order Rodentia. Once known simply as "desert rats", the gerbil subfamily includes about 110 species of African, Indian, and Asian rodents, including sand rats and jirds, all of which are adapted to arid habitats...
  
   group of animals
• Desert rat, colloquial name for a resident of a desert area, esp. in the American Desert Southwest
  Southwestern United States
  The Southwestern United States is a region defined in different ways by different sources. Broad definitions include nearly a quarter of the United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah...
  
   area
• Desert Rat-kangaroo
  Desert Rat-kangaroo
  The Desert Rat-kangaroo , also called the Buff-nosed Rat-kangaroo or the Plains Rat-kangaroo, is an extinct marsupial that lived in a sand ridge and gibber plain habitat in southwestern Queensland and northeastern South Australia. It was the size of a small rabbit...
  
  , extinct Australian marsupial
• Desert Research and Technology Studies
  Desert Research and Technology Studies
  NASA's Desert Research and Technology Studies is a group of teams which perform an annual series of field trials seeking to demonstrate and test candidate technologies and systems for manned exploration of the surface of the Moon, Mars, or other rocky bodies.Desert RATS began in 1997, reviving...
  
  , or Desert RATS, a set of field trials conducted by NASA

See also

• Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps
  Desert Rats vs Afrika Korps
  Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps is a real time strategy game that is based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II. The single player missions are playable as the German Afrika Korps or the British Desert Rats. There is also an option for online multiplayer....
  
  , a real time strategy game based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II (see website)
• Desert Woodrat
  Desert Woodrat
  The Desert Woodrat is a small species of pack rat native to desert regions of western North America, ranging from southeastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho, south to California in the U.S., and Baja California and extreme northwestern Sonora in Mexico.This pack rat is 8.5 to 15 inches long...
  
  , a small species of pack rat
  Pack rat
  A packrat, also called a woodrat, can be any of the species in the rodent genus Neotoma. Packrats have a rat-like appearance, with long tails, large ears and large black eyes. Compared to deer mice, harvest mice and grasshopper mice, packrats are noticeably larger and are usually somewhat larger...
  
   native to desert regions of western North America.
• The Rat Patrol
  The Rat Patrol
  The Rat Patrol is an American television program that aired on ABC during the 1966–1968 seasons. The show follows the exploits of four Allied soldiers who are part of a long-range desert patrol group in the North African campaign during World War II...
  
  , an American TV program (1966-1968) loosely based on the North Africa Campaign of World War II
• The Rats of Tobruk
  The Rats of Tobruk
  The Rats of Tobruk was the name given to the soldiers of the garrison who held the Libyan port of Tobruk against the Afrika Corps, during the Siege of Tobruk in World War II...
  
  , nickname for Allied soldiers holding the Libyan port of Tobruk while under siege in World War II.