{"id":11752,"date":"2023-06-02T04:49:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T23:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11752"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:45:14","slug":"agni-1-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/agni-1-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Agni-1 Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Agni-1 Missile:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Agni- 1 ballistic missile is a medium-Range Ballistic Missile having range 700\u2013900 km.<\/li>\n<li>It is a single-stage, solid-fuel missile.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead with an estimated payload of 1,000 kg.<\/li>\n<li>The latest upgrade to the Agni-1 missile includes a new guidance system that makes it more accurate and a new warhead that increases its destructive power.<\/li>\n<li>It is road-mobile, which gives it a high degree of mobility and makes it difficult for an enemy to target.<\/li>\n<li>It was first test-fired in 2002.<\/li>\n<li>The Indian Army\u2019s Strategic Forces Command first deployed this missile in 2007.<\/li>\n<li>The Agni-I originated from India\u2019s 1983 Integrated Guided Missile Development Program (IGMDP).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>About IGMDP:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was a programme for the R&amp;D of the comprehensive range of missiles in India, started in 1982\u201383 under the leadership of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.<\/li>\n<li>It was a Ministry of Defence programme managed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).<\/li>\n<li>Types of missiles under the programme: APJ Abdul Kalam started multiple projects simultaneously to develop the following types of Indian Guided Missiles &#8211;\n<ul>\n<li>Short Range Surface to Surface Missile (SSM) \u2018Prithvi\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Long Range Surface to Surface Missile (SSM) \u2018Agni\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Medium Range Surface to Air Missile (SAM) \u2018Akash\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Short Range Surface to Air Missile (SAM) \u2018Trishul\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Anti-tank Guided Missile (ATGM) \u2018Nag\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is nuclear warhead?<\/h3>\n<p>A nuclear warhead is a device designed to be mounted on a missile or other delivery system and capable of releasing an immense amount of energy through a nuclear reaction. It is the explosive component of a nuclear weapon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/medium-range-ballistic-missile-agni-1-test-fired-in-odisha\/article66920925.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India conducts successful training launch of Agni-1 ballistic missile<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agni- 1 ballistic missile is a medium-Range Ballistic Missile having range 700\u2013900 km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11752","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\/11752","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=11752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}