Equipment support

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these messages) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted. Find sources: "Equipment support" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message) This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Please help improve this article by introducing citations to additional sources. Find sources: "Equipment support" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Equipment Support, sometimes abbreviated as ES or Equip Spt, is a term used to describe maintenance and supply duties of certain military regiments in the West. The term is also occasionally described as 'materiel', however this term usually refers to the supply of equipment, rather than the actual practice of providing support for certain items.

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (December 2021)

In the British Army, the term is used to describe those units and duties where maintenance units provide support to certain vehicles and equipment. In addition, the term is sometimes used in the following terms "... responsible for maintenance and repairing the Army's equipment'.^[1]

Under British Army doctrine, equipment support is defined as follows:^[2]

Equipment support seeks to keep the required quantity of operational equipment available to the force. This is achieved by the active management and maintenance of equipment and equipment components. Maintenance is organised into four levels which are determined by the complexity and engineering requirements of the task.

• Military logistics
• Military acquisition
• Military supply-chain management

• "Land Operations". Army Doctrine Publication. Army Doctrine Publication AC 71940. Land Warfare Development Centre, Warminster, Wiltshire, United Kingdom – via British Army.

This article on military history is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e