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French F1 cotton pup tent

See, what I discovered:
That tent exists in minimum 3 Versions.



 
The nylon ones seem to go for really stupid money, and by all reports are not waterproof, and prone to horrendous condensation (surprise, surprise)
The cotton ones, on UK websites are all but impossible to find, save from MM and are around £20+. They do work however...
Finding them with original flysheets is like looking for tonsils on an earthworm😕

Sorry couldn't get your third link to work?
 
The third one is the plastic tent in sand colour.

The double roof tent in this offer has a cotton inner tent and a nylon over tent.

Yes all prices for surplus stuff start to become very high.
The reason is this:
Most European Armies became small Professional armies after the end of the cold war. Germany kept the universal military service, but round about 30% did a civil service in hospitals and other similar things.

The secret reason to keep the universal service was, that they couldn't replace the civil service, after the reunification was missing the money to do it.

In the year 2011 Germany stopped the universal military service.
Before we had in Germany loads of equipment from NVA, US Army, British, French and Russian stuff, old olive green Bundeswehr stuff. The cold war was over and the armies left the stuff behind them on the cold battle field. It was to expensive to carry that old material home, so they sold it, nearly for free.
After 2011 they sold the stored Flecktarn stuff, as good as new.
That was a hard competition on the military rubbish market, and it kept the prices of other military surplus very low.

But now it is sold out!

The uniforms are destroyed at the building sides. The tents who had covered the wood in front of the houses got rotten, I managed my self over the years to dig with the spoon trough a 450g heavy Bundeswehr mess kit.

What did I want to write? ;0)

Now, 30 years after they changed in the Bundeswehr from oliv green to Flecktarn, people ask for green German stuff for the same prices like in 1985 for Wehrmacht equipment.
In some corners you still get the oliv stuff cheap, but slowly the last small surplus shops understand what's going on.

Flecktarn trousers in size L and XL are nearly sold out.
The Swiss and Swedish stuff in grey and green is sold out.
The French stuff is sold out.
US Army stuff doesn't reach the German market any more.
The prices are climbing and in France heavily used French field uniforms just reached the prices that Leo Koehler asks for original NEW uniforms!

The Austrian Army stuff is the last we regularly can buy for normal prices we where used to over the last decades.

Every other NATO surplus equipment on the market will climb in the next few years to prices on the level of modern trekking equipment, made in Asia.

Here a link to Austrian stuff for reasonable prices:


The used stuff even here slowly becomes seldom and relatively expensiv, but the new stuff stays cheap on this side.
(Austria kept the universal military service. They have like Switzerland a miliz army.)

"NEU" MEANS NEW
"GEBRAUCHT" MEANS USED.

Especially the new green stuff sold in this shop is very interesting, because this Austrian made original military high quality stuff is sold for prices we usually have to pay for Asian trekking equipment.
Or better: It is cheaper than that Asian stuff.
 
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