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The purpose-built site in Somerset opened in 1985. The Royal Navy previously had underwater breathing training for fixed-wing aircrew at the Royal Navy Air Medical School and had underwater escape for helicopter aircrew in a dunker at HMS Vernon; [1] HMS Vernon trained around 800 rotary wing aircrew a year, and had five naval divers.
It specialises in the design, manufacture and supply of a range of parachutes and emergency, rescue and survival equipment for both the military and civilian markets. [1] The company can trace its routes back to the Irvin Airchute Company, founded in 1919, and GQ Parachutes, founded in 1932. Both firms had become key manufacturers of emergency ...
The Lindholme Gear is five cylinder-shaped containers joined together by lengths of floating rope. [1] The centre container would house a nine-man inflatable dinghy with the other containers housing survival equipment such as emergency rations and clothing. [1] The containers were discarded containers from the tail-units of 500lb and 250lb ...
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The new Royal Navy Survival Equipment School (RNSES) initially took up residence at Eastleigh, Hampshire, before it was moved to improved accommodation at Grange Airfield (HMS Siskin) in March 1947. In 1955, the school moved to a former boys' preparatory school ( Seafield Park ) at Hill Head .
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This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and equipment being trialled.