Rapier


This painting by Charles David Cobb shows the 12th Air Defence Regiment set up and ready to help repel the incessant attacks by the Argentine Air Force. It was the deployment of these systems that helped tip the balance back towards the British in the aerial duel over San Carlos Bay.


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