{"id":11346,"date":"2023-06-01T01:07:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T19:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11346"},"modified":"2025-03-30T02:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:32:48","slug":"mh-60-romeo-helicopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mh-60-romeo-helicopter\/","title":{"rendered":"MH-60 Romeo Helicopter"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About MH-60 Romeo Helicopter:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>world\u2019s most advanced maritime helicopter<\/strong> and is the <strong>most capable naval helicopter<\/strong> available today <strong>designed to operate from frigates, destroyers<\/strong>, cruisers and aircraft carriers.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>manufactured by US defence major Lockheed Martin<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0 is an <strong>all-weather helicopter<\/strong> designed to <strong>support multiple missions<\/strong> with state-of-the-art avionics and sensors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Main missions<\/strong> of the MH-60R Seahawk <strong>are Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and Anti-Surface Warfare (ASuW).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This <strong>helicopter can detect and track submarines<\/strong> and <strong>surface ships<\/strong> and <strong>attack with torpedoes and missiles.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondary missions<\/strong> are <strong>search and rescue<\/strong>, <strong>combat search and rescue<\/strong>, vertical replenishment, medical evacuation and insertion and extraction of special forces.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>This helicopter is <strong>operated by a crew of 4<\/strong> in <strong>anti-submarine warfare <\/strong>role and crew of <strong>5 in anti-surface warfare role<\/strong>. It <strong>can also accommodate additional passengers.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It carries <strong>advanced airborne active sonar, multi-mode search radar<\/strong> and nose-mounted forward-looking infrared (FLIR) turret.<\/li>\n<li>The helicopter has an <strong>integrated self-defense system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Maximum Speed: 267 km\/h<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Range: 454 km<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is INS Vikrant?<\/h3>\n<p>INS Vikrant is the first indigenous and largest ship made by India, which includes indigenous designs and aircraft carriers for the Indian Navy.It has a large amount of indigenous equipment and machinery, involving major industrial houses in the country as well as over 100 MSMEs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/india\/indian-navys-anti-submarine-mh-60r-helicopter-makes-maiden-landing-on-ins-vikrant-watch-11685550474525.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Navy&#8217;s anti-submarine MH-60R helicopter makes maiden landing on INS Vikrant | Watch<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MH-60 Romeo  Helicopter is the world\u2019s most advanced maritime helicopter and is the most capable naval helicopter available today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11346","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\/11346","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=11346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}