Rapier

Rapier - 1970s surface-to-air missile system by BAC. Article “Rapier” in Spanish Wikipedia has 28.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 9 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Rapier”, its content was written by 4 registered users of Spanish Wikipedia and edited by 472 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 13 times in Spanish Wikipedia and cited 664 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Spanish): #23420 in October 2022
• Global: #23431 in September 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Spanish): #257662 in April 2023
• Global: #39252 in March 2022

There are 19 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 輕劍防空飛彈		93.3758
2	English (en) Rapier (missile)		77.1204
3	Simple English (simple) Rapier (missile)		56.949
4	Japanese (ja) レイピア (ミサイル)		51.7492
5	Russian (ru) Рапира (зенитный ракетный комплекс)		43.5559
6	Malay (ms) Peluru berpandu Rapier		31.9972
7	Ukrainian (uk) Rapier (ракета)		30.3364
8	Spanish (es) Rapier		28.1918
9	French (fr) Rapier		27.4692
10	German (de) Rapier (Rakete)		26.2206

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Rapier" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rapier (missile)		1 800 426
2	German (de) Rapier (Rakete)		243 450
3	Russian (ru) Рапира (зенитный ракетный комплекс)		171 350
4	Turkish (tr) Rapier		132 388
5	Japanese (ja) レイピア (ミサイル)		123 085
6	French (fr) Rapier		77 154
7	Persian (fa) راپیر (موشک)		47 126
8	Indonesian (id) Rapier		36 230
9	Polish (pl) Rapier (pocisk rakietowy)		29 140
10	Italian (it) Rapier (missile)		24 173

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Rapier" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Rapier (missile)		12 322
2	Persian (fa) راپیر (موشک)		2 866
3	Russian (ru) Рапира (зенитный ракетный комплекс)		1 865
4	German (de) Rapier (Rakete)		945
5	Japanese (ja) レイピア (ミサイル)		646
6	Simple English (simple) Rapier (missile)		541
7	Turkish (tr) Rapier		520
8	Chinese (zh) 輕劍防空飛彈		388
9	French (fr) Rapier		324
10	Spanish (es) Rapier		196

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Rapier" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Rapier (missile)		208
2	German (de) Rapier (Rakete)		62
3	Russian (ru) Рапира (зенитный ракетный комплекс)		31
4	Italian (it) Rapier (missile)		30
5	Dutch (nl) Rapier (raketsysteem)		28
6	French (fr) Rapier		25
7	Turkish (tr) Rapier		21
8	Japanese (ja) レイピア (ミサイル)		11
9	Indonesian (id) Rapier		9
10	Finnish (fi) Rapier (ohjus)		7

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Rapier" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Rapier (Rakete)		0
2	English (en) Rapier (missile)		0
3	Spanish (es) Rapier		0
4	Persian (fa) راپیر (موشک)		0
5	Finnish (fi) Rapier (ohjus)		0
6	French (fr) Rapier		0
7	Indonesian (id) Rapier		0
8	Italian (it) Rapier (missile)		0
9	Japanese (ja) レイピア (ミサイル)		0
10	Korean (ko) 레이피어 (미사일)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Rapier" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Rapier (missile)		268
2	Russian (ru) Рапира (зенитный ракетный комплекс)		77
3	Japanese (ja) レイピア (ミサイル)		62
4	German (de) Rapier (Rakete)		43
5	French (fr) Rapier		42
6	Swedish (sv) British Aircraft Corporation Rapier		28
7	Chinese (zh) 輕劍防空飛彈		28
8	Italian (it) Rapier (missile)		23
9	Dutch (nl) Rapier (raketsysteem)		14
10	Spanish (es) Rapier		13

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#	Language	Value
de	German Rapier (Rakete)
en	English Rapier (missile)
es	Spanish Rapier
fa	Persian راپیر (موشک)
fi	Finnish Rapier (ohjus)
fr	French Rapier
id	Indonesian Rapier
it	Italian Rapier (missile)
ja	Japanese レイピア (ミサイル)
ko	Korean 레이피어 (미사일)
ms	Malay Peluru berpandu Rapier
nl	Dutch Rapier (raketsysteem)
pl	Polish Rapier (pocisk rakietowy)
ru	Russian Рапира (зенитный ракетный комплекс)
simple	Simple English Rapier (missile)
sv	Swedish British Aircraft Corporation Rapier
tr	Turkish Rapier
uk	Ukrainian Rapier (ракета)
zh	Chinese 輕劍防空飛彈

Best Rank

Spanish: #257662 04.2023

Global: #39252 03.2022

Best Rank

Spanish: #23420 10.2022

Global: #23431 09.2002

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