<page view-id="/RecoveredEquipmentManagement.xhtml">
         <description>RecoveredEquipmentManagement</description>
         <begin-conversation join="true" flush-mode="manual"/>
         <navigation from-action="#{recoveredEquipmentManagement.search}">
             <redirect view-id="/RecoveredEquipmentManagement.xhtml"/>
        </navigation>
    </page>

does the <redirect> above issue a HTTP GET request or sendRedirect() or equivalent to HttpServletRequest or HttpServletResponse?

so when the redirection is complete and page is rendered, when you hit F5 it should re-issue the last command which is a HTTP POST (let's say you just submitted a form) or HTTP GET??