16th Regiment Royal Artillery

16 Regiment Royal Artillery
Active1947 – present
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch British Army
RoleMedium Range Air Defence
Size6 batteries
471 personnel[1]
Part of7 Air Defence Group
Garrison/HQBaker Barracks, Thorney Island
Nickname(s)The London Invicta Gunners
EquipmentSky Sabre,[2] LEAPP
Photograph of a missile system in the foreground and the Canary Wharf skyline in the background.
Gunners from 16 Regiment, Royal Artillery, set up a Rapier FSC Ground Based Air Defence (GBAD) system at Blackheath, London, on 2 May 2012, as part of Exercise Olympic Guardian

16 Regiment Royal Artillery is a regiment of the Royal Regiment of Artillery in the British Army. It currently serves in the Ground Based Air Defence role and is equipped with the Sky Sabre air defence missile system and Land Environment Air Picture Provision (LEAPP).

One of its Sky Sabre batteries is always deployed to the Falkland Islands.[3]

  1. ^ "Army – Question for Ministry of Defence". p. 1. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
  2. ^ "What a milestone! Sky Sabre training has started".
  3. ^ "16 Regiment Royal Artillery changing of the colours parade" (PDF). The Gunner. 1 March 2022. p. 18. Retrieved 26 June 2023.