Does this have any defence applications, maybe, or perhaps not, but it is the kind of industrial design and material innovation that defence should be keeping an eye on because every single kilogram counts

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Corrugated cardboard doesn't have a great deal of longevity in damp environments but it could easily be replaced with Correx type materials

One pallet = 100 beds

They might need a kip mat or thin mattress, but their load-bearing capacity is enough for all the fattest!

Coming at this from a HADR angle, a Spanish company called Humanitaria has come up with an alternative that uses corrugated cardboard. They claim some impressive savings in time, weight, space, and cost

Jokes aside about how impossible to use they are, camp beds for deployed accommodation and for humanitarian assistance/disaster response cost a lot, weigh a lot and take up a lot of scarce space on transport. Individually, not a huge problem, but at scale, it all adds up