{"id":11776,"date":"2023-06-07T02:17:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11776"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T23:53:35","slug":"fattah-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fattah-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Fattah Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Fattah Missile:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>intermediate range ballistic missile developed by Iran.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>travel at hypersonic speeds of up to 15 times the speed of sound<\/strong> and can <strong>penetrate missile defence system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>range of 1,400 kilometres<\/strong> and <strong>uses solid propellants<\/strong>, allowing high <strong>manoeuvrability.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This missile has the <strong>capability to utilize various warheads for different missions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are Hypersonic Missiles?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hypersonic missiles travel <strong>at speeds of at least Mach 5 \u2014 five times the speed of sound <\/strong>\u2014 and can <strong>manoeuvre mid-flight, making them harder to track and intercept.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Unlike conventional ballistic missiles, hypersonic ones f<strong>ly on a trajectory low in the atmosphere, enabling them to reach their targets more quickly<\/strong> and with <strong>less chance of being intercepted<\/strong> by modern air defences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are ballistic missiles?<\/h3>\n<p>Ballistic missiles are powered initially by a rocket or series of rockets in stages, but then follow an unpowered trajectory that arches upwards before descending to reach its intended target. Ballistic missiles can carry either nuclear or conventional warheads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/fattah-5-points-on-hypersonic-missile-unveiled-by-iran-4099344\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Fattah: 5 Points On Hypersonic Missile Unveiled By Ira<\/u><\/a>n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fattah Missile is an intermediate range ballistic missile developed by Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11776","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\/11776","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=11776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}