Shelter-half
A strip of canvas is part of the personal equipment of the soldiers of most modern armed forces. It is typically rectangular or triangular impregnated tarpaulins, several of which are joined together to form (usually by buttons), a makeshift tent. Individual tarps can be worn as a union and thus serve (similar to a poncho ) and to camouflage weather protection.
Tent track 31
The most common design of a strip of canvas is the ground sheet 31 ( with minor changes later than Zeltbahn 34, also referred to informally as " Warei " ), a triangular sheet with a base side length of 2.5 m and a weight of about 1 kg in the dry state. It was during World War II used by the Wehrmacht, similar models with different camouflage patterns were after the war, among other things from BGS, used by the Austrian and Swedish army.
When used as a tent, in the simplest case, four sheets are buttoned together in a pyramid shape, but larger constructions are possible.
The strip of canvas was carried strapped to the coupling, the A-frame of the storm baggage or in a horseshoe shape around the knapsack.
Bundeswehr
The Zeltbahn the Bundeswehr has the shape of a Recktecks with triangular wings on the narrow sides.
In the Bundeswehr Zeltbahn überlichweise two pieces are together buttoned to obtain a prism-shaped tent (first length of approximately 2.25 m). The triangular wings are in this case connected to the ends of the tent.
Again, larger constructions are possible.
Other models
Before the tent sheet 31 a square strip of canvas was used (M 1892) in the German army. Similar models came later in the NPA as well as in the Swiss Army ( as a so-called " military Blache " ) is used (side length approx 1.60m ).
Tarpaulin
Synonyms for cover in terms of " water- resistant fabric " are recently from English Tarpaulin and the Norwegian Fjellduken. The word tarpaulin originated as a composition of tar " tar " and palling or pall " cloth " (from the Latin pallium " cloak "). These terms come lately also in German speaking countries, especially in the jargon of outdoor sports for tarpaulins ( tarps or tarpaulins half ).
See also
- Pitched roof (military jargon )