{"id":11495,"date":"2023-05-27T03:35:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T22:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11495"},"modified":"2025-03-30T02:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T21:26:55","slug":"sudarshan-shakti-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/sudarshan-shakti-exercise\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudarshan Shakti Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Sudarshan Shakti Exercise:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aim:<\/strong> It aimed at starting the <strong>transformation of the forces into a modern, lean<\/strong>, and agile fighting combination <strong>capable of leveraging new-age technologies.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The exercise was designed to validate operational plans in a <strong>network-centric environmen<\/strong>t with elements of <strong>combat power, combat support and logistic support<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These elements were exercised in a <strong>synergised application<\/strong> under all domains of enemy threat including <strong>Grey Zone Warfare as part of high tempo operations.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Scope and objectives<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Integrated use of force multipliers like <strong>special forces and niche technologies<\/strong> covering <strong>drones, tethered drones, loiter ammunition<\/strong> as well as key aspects of electronic warfare made it a unique event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This exercise also facilitated in meeting the stated objectives of <strong>five pillars of transformation<\/strong> enunciated by COAS General Manoj Pande in January 2023.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Sudarshan Shakti 2023\u201d highlights the <strong>commitment of the South Western Command<\/strong> and its associated units towards maintaining <strong>a high level of operational preparedness<\/strong> and capability to fight a technology intensive future conflict.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a loitering munition?<\/h3>\n<p>A loitering munition (also known as a suicide drone or kamikaze drone) is an aerial weapon system category in which the munition can loiter (wait passively) around the target area for some time and attacks only once a target is located.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/jaipur\/army-conducts-sudarshan-shakti-exercise-along-western-border\/articleshow\/100516087.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Army conducts \u2018Sudarshan Shakti\u2019 drill<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aimed at starting the transformation of the forces into a modern, lean, and agile fighting combination<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11495","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\/11495","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=11495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}