Tracked Rapier – Billeder og video

Fotogalleri af en Sporet Rapier, Adapted Rapier system to fit on the M548, a cargo-carrier version of the ubiquitous M113 armored personnel carrier.

Kilde: Sporet Rapier på Wikipedia

Sporet Rapier is a variant of the Rapier surface-to-air missile system that uses a tracked vehicle as a launcher platform. It was developed by British Aerospace in the late 1970s for the Iranian Army, but after the Iranian Revolution, the order was cancelled and the system was adopted by the British Army instead. Tracked Rapier offered several advantages over the towed version, such as greater mobility, faster deployment, and increased missile capacity.
Sporet Rapier blev brugt af den britiske Rhinhær og senere af RAF-regimentet til at yde luftforsvar i lav højde mod fjendtlige fly. Tracked Rapier blev også eksporteret til flere lande, herunder Oman, Malaysia og Brunei.