{"id":123294,"date":"2026-09-07T16:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=123294"},"modified":"2026-09-07T16:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:51:21","slug":"lora-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/lora-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"LORA Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>LORA Missile Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Germany successfully tested the LORA missile in the North Atlantic overnight, military officials said recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About LORA Missile<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><b> LORA (Long Range Artillery) <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is a <\/span><b>short-range, road-mobile, ground- and sea-launched ballistic missile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> developed and operated by <\/span><b>Israel<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is believed to have entered service in Israel in 2007.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is designed to <\/span><b>strike high-value targets deep inside enemy territory.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>LORA Missile <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>single-stage, solid-propellant<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> missile.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a diameter of 0.624 m and a length of 5.2 m, with a launch weight of approximately 1,600 kg.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can carry a payload of up to 600 kg and can deploy a single high explosive (HE) warhead or submunitions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a <\/span><b>range of 280 km.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It uses <\/span><b>Inertial Navigation System\/Global Positioning System and TV for terminal guidance<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, with possible <\/span><b>in-flight maneuvering capability.\u00a0 <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/aerospace-defense\/germany-successfully-tests-israeli-ballistic-missile-officials-say-2026-09-02\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>REUT<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LORA Missile is an Israeli short-range ballistic missile with a 280-km range, solid-propellant system, precision guidance, and road- and sea-launch capability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":123228,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10092],"class_list":["post-123294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-lora-missile","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123294","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123294"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123344,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123294\/revisions\/123344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}