{"id":11082,"date":"2023-05-20T03:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11082"},"modified":"2025-03-30T00:26:33","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T18:56:33","slug":"what-is-zorawar-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-zorawar-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Zorawar Tank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>AboutZorawar Tank:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>indigenously designed and developed Light Tank.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Developed by <strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)<\/strong> in collaboration <strong>with Larsen &amp; Toubro Limited.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is designed to <strong>operate in varying terrain<\/strong> from high altitude areas and marginal terrains to island territories.<\/li>\n<li>It will be <strong>highly transportable for rapid deployment<\/strong> to meet any operational situation.<\/li>\n<li>It will be e<strong>quipped with all the modern technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, Drone Integration<\/strong>, a high degree of situational awareness, and amphibious operation capability.<\/li>\n<li>It will weigh<strong> less than 25 tonnes with a high power-to-weight ratio<\/strong> as well as superior firepower and protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Who was Zorawar?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>He was a <strong>military general \u2014 Zorawar Singh Kahluria<\/strong>, and had s<strong>erved under Jammu\u2019s Raja Gulab Singh in the 19th Century.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>He is <strong>honoured for his conquests in the Himalayas<\/strong> including Ladakh, Tibet, Baltistan and Skardu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Who was Zorawar?<\/h3>\n<p>He was a military general \u2014 Zorawar Singh Kahluria, and had served under Jammu\u2019s Raja Gulab Singh in the 19th Century.\u00b7 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 He is honoured for his conquests in the Himalayas including Ladakh, Tibet, Baltistan and Skardu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india-news\/drdo-tank-zorawar-to-be-ready-for-trials-by-year-end-along-china-border-123051900707_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>DRDO tank &#8216;Zorawar&#8217; to be ready for trials by year-end along China border<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zorawar Tank is an indigenously designed and developed Light Tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11082","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\/11082","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=11082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}