{"id":122605,"date":"2026-09-03T14:14:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=122605"},"modified":"2026-09-03T14:14:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:44:41","slug":"khagantak-243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/khagantak-243\/","title":{"rendered":"Khagantak-243"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Khagantak-243 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Indian Air Force conducted a successful drop trial of the indigenously designed and developed Long Range Glide Bomb (LRGB), Khagantak-243.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Khagantak-243<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a 300-kg-class <\/span><b>airborne long-range stand-off precision-guided glide bomb.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Developed By:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is jointly developed by <\/span><b>Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and JSR Dynamics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Features of Khagantak-243<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is designed to be launched from a fighter aircraft <\/span><b>and glide towards its target after release.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike conventional free-fall bombs, glide bombs allow aircraft to <\/span><b>engage targets<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from a <\/span><b>stand-off distance without having to fly directly over them.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Range:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It can cover a range of <\/span><b>144 km to 180 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> when released from an <\/span><b>altitude of 12 km at Mach 0.8.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bomb features a <\/span><b>cylindrical body, swivel-type mid-body glide wings<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and five aft control surfaces that help <\/span><b>it navigate towards its target.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Long-range glide bombs are designed to enable combat <\/span><b>aircraft to engage targets from stand-off distances<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, allowing platforms to strike enemy targets while remaining outside the reach of certain air defence systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/iaf-successfully-conducts-trial-of-indigenous-long-range-glide-bomb-khagantak-243\/article71421045.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khagantak-243 is a 300-kg-class airborne long-range stand-off precision-guided glide bomb. Read more about Khagantak-243, Features, Significance, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":122577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9983],"class_list":["post-122605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-khagantak-243","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122605","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122637,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122605\/revisions\/122637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}