Desert rat

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