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I wonder if there is any military application of using Yurts-alike tents, considering them being more resilient to extreme weather yet easy to set up and take down.

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I'm not sure of other militaries but the Finnish army indeed uses very yurt-like tents, "puolijoukkueteltta"[0].

[0] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puolijoukkueteltta

Yes, same tents in Sweden and Estonia as well. Mainly used in the winter, with a stove in the middle, which gives it rigidity.

german youth movement and scouting developed a tent system almost 100 years ago that allows to build yurt-like tents. it is modular so that with four sheets of a kind of triangular shaped canvas you can build a tipi like tent, and six triangular sheets plus 6 rectangular sheets build a yurt. multiple yurts can be connected to build even larger structures.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzzelte_der_deutschen_Jug...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jurtenburg&iar=images

Militaries in various countries already use simple canvas tents when in the field. I don’t see how switching to a similar-looking yurt setup would be an improvement.

Many militaries, including the US, use rectangular tents. Yurts are round. The entire point is the shape difference potentially being better for wind. This is why chatgpt is going to take over..

I don’t know the first thing about the US army, but several others have this figured out already. I’m Swedish and our tents have been round for … well I don’t know how long.

Are you proud you are ignorant about the miliatry operations of the world's most active military for the last 50+ years? You never saw a movie with a huge rectangular shape and thought "hey, that's different than ours here in Sweden? Let me jot that down, not everyone is like Sweden" ?

My post was about how the assumption that a yurt would be an improvement over current technology makes some weird assumptions. Like, that current army tents are square.

I don’t think it’s my responsibility to read up on how foreign armies operate in details like tent shape. Movies don’t generally dwell on such details. At least not the ones I watch. I don’t know what floats your boat — maybe there are movies about military logistics?

None about logistics, other than often showing the bases in basically every single one ever made.

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