Question: What is the most weopandry you have worked along side?

Emma Bould answered on 13 Mar 2012:

We can work on (maintain) all of our weapons alongside.

Most of the time, and especially when we are alongside they aren’t loaded. That helps to make them safe and allows my Engineering Technicians to do routine maintenance and fix any defects they might have. They also have to be careful of other things like moving parts and radio transmissions which might harm them if they aren’t made safe first.

What we don’t do alongside is move any explosives. We are very careful to follow lots of strict rules about keeping them safe to make sure we don’t have any accidents.