I was chatting to a fellow Scout leader at a camp recently who also happens to work for the Royal Air Force, and he showed me the latest cord that they’re issued with instead of paracord. Instead of being a sheath with cores inside, it’s more ‘normal’, and is several interwoven strands. It seals really well and seems much better for general use than paracord, which is far too slippy for most of the applications I use it for.

He cut off a small length for me, which is shown below.

Wondered if anybody had heard of this, knew what it was called and – preferably – knew where to acquire it?