RFA Reliant (A131) was a helicopter support ship of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
She was taken up from the trade in 1982 for service in the Falklands War as an aircraft transport, being fitted with a temporary mid-ships flight deck and hangar forward to carry 13 helicopters.
[5] At the end of 1982 she was chartered by the UK MoD and a more substantial conversion was undertaken, and was fitted with the Arapaho containerized aircraft handling system, a hangar and a flight deck and she was commissioned into the RFA Fleet as RFA Reliant.
Upon returning to UK she proceeded to the Falklands for what was expected to be an extended deployment.
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