{"id":10664,"date":"2023-05-12T06:54:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T01:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10664"},"modified":"2025-03-29T21:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T16:11:02","slug":"ch-47f-chinook-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ch-47f-chinook-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"CH-47F Chinook Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About CH-47F Chinook Helicopter:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>U.S. Army\u2019s primary heavy troop and supply transport aircraft<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>advanced multi-mission helicopter<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>manufactured by<\/strong> American aerospace and defence firm <strong>Boeing<\/strong> for the US Army and international defence forces.<\/li>\n<li>It is used for the <strong>transportation of troops, artillery, supplies, and equipment<\/strong> to the battlefield.<\/li>\n<li><strong>India has about 15 CH-47 <\/strong>Chinook helicopters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It contains a <strong>fully integrated digital cockpit management system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>advanced cargo-handling capabilities<\/strong> that complement the aircraft&#8217;s mission performance and handling characteristics.<\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>monolithic airframe with vibration reduction<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Maximum Speed: 160 knots (296 kmph<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an Apache helicopter?<\/h3>\n<p>The AH-64 Apache is the world\u2019s most advanced multi-role combat helicopter. The AH-64E is an advanced multi-mission helicopter with the latest technology insertions, maintaining its standing as the world\u2019s best attack helicopter. It is the only available combat helicopter with a spectrum of capabilities for virtually any mission requirement, including greater thrust and lift, joint digital operability, improved survivability and cognitive decision aiding.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/world\/us-state-department-approves-potential-sale-of-chinook-helicopters-to-germany-pentagon-says\/1569193\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>US State Department approves potential sale of Chinook helicopters to Germany, Pentagon says<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CH-47F Chinook is the U.S. Army\u2019s primary heavy troop and supply transport aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}