Why doesn't the UK have any SAM's other than Rapier?
I recently had cause to peruse the general number and types of SAMs deployed in area if one were flying into Tel Aviv from the UK. It's quite a long list.
It suddenly occurred to me - how come the UK has only a few Rapiers when it's one of the more generally tooled up military powers? It seems odd to have both USAF and RAF air defence interceptors and fighters sustained for sixty years now but hardly anything in the way of SAM's.
Obviously there is a good reason and it's not some huge bureaucratic oversight... But what is the reason please?
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