New Rescue Craft For South Korea And Singapore

摘要

UK engineering and services group James Fisher Defence (JFD) has recently shipped two new DSAR (Deep Search and Rescue) 500 series free-swimming submarine rescue vehicles (SRVs), for service with customers in South Korea and Singapore.rnThe DSAR 500 marque has leveraged JFD's experience of the materiel design, in-service support and operation of LR5, the manned component of the UK Submarine Rescue Service (UKSRS), until the latter's stand-down at the end of November 2008.rnAlthough what was Vickers Slingsby (the heritage of which can now be traced to Perry Slingsby) was responsible for delivering the original GRP hull LR5 rescue submersible to the UK, the vehicle was in fact substantially rebuilt in service by JFD during the course of its service life. Indeed, the fact that the vehicle retained the LR5 designation has somewhat obscured the degree of modification and replacement embodied through-life.