Cheers, abandoning hot military vehicles (5)
I believe the answer is:
tanks
'military vehicles' is the definition.
(tank is a kind of military vehicle)
'cheers abandoning hot' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'cheers' could be 'ta' (I've seen this in other clues) and 'ta' is located in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tanks that I've seen before include "Armed vehicles" , "Reservoirs - military vehicles" , "Armored military vehicles" , "Armoured military vehicles" , "Bombs" .)