{"id":14289,"date":"2023-09-06T04:34:45","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T23:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14289"},"modified":"2025-04-02T18:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:06:19","slug":"mq-9b-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mq-9b-predator\/","title":{"rendered":"MQ-9B Predator Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About MQ-9B Predator Drone<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The MQ-9B drone is a\u00a0<strong>variant of the MQ-9 &#8220;Reaper&#8221;<\/strong>, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations.<\/li>\n<li>These are\u00a0<strong>high-altitude, long-endurance drones armed with strike missiles<\/strong> that can take out enemy targets with high accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI)<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>primarily for the United States Air Force (USAF).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The MQ-9B\u00a0<strong>has two variants \u2014 SkyGuardian and its sibling SeaGuardian.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Indian Navy has been operating the MQ-9B Sea Guardian since 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It can\u00a0<strong>carry up to<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>5,670 kg\u00a0<\/strong>and has a\u00a0<strong>fuel capacity of 2,721 kg.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The drone\u00a0<strong>can operate at over 40,000 feet.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Predator also has a\u00a0<strong>maximum endurance of 40 hours,<\/strong> making it useful for long-hour surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>can support land, maritime surveillance, anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare<\/strong>, strike, electronic warfare and expeditionary roles.<\/li>\n<li>It is also capable of<strong> automatic take-offs and landings.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>can safely integrate into civil airspace<\/strong>, enabling joint forces and civil authorities to deliver real-time situational awareness anywhere in the maritime domain &#8212; day or night.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)?<\/h3>\n<p>Armoured Recovery Vehicles are specialized military vehicles designed for the recovery and maintenance of armored vehicles on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-finalising-letter-of-request-for-acquisition-of-31-mq-9b-drones-8926376\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India finalising Letter of Request for acquisition of 31 MQ-9B drones<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MQ-9B drone is a variant of the MQ-9 &#8220;Reaper&#8221;, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14290,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14289","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\/14289","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=14289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}