{"id":15012,"date":"2023-09-21T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T04:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15012"},"modified":"2025-04-03T00:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T18:55:16","slug":"barak-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/barak-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Barak Tank?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Barak Tank<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>Barak, or Lightning<\/strong>, is a\u00a0<strong>fifth-generation main battle tank developed by Israel<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>developed jointly by the Israel Defense Ministry\u2019s (IDF) Armored Vehicles Directorate<\/strong> and the\u00a0<strong>IDF\u2019s Ground Forces<\/strong> and Armored Corps.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It includes\u00a0<strong>Artificial Intelligence based sensing and processing capabilities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Barak includes\u00a0<strong>touch screens and an operational application store<\/strong> to help with missions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>IronVision:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>tank commander will be equipped with a helmet known as IronVision,<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>resembling those used by fighter jet pilots<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The device would\u00a0<strong>enable real-time target location using artificial intelligence<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>360-degree scanning<\/strong> via head movement.<\/li>\n<li>This will\u00a0<strong>enable soldiers to overcome inherent visibility challenges<\/strong>, thereby enhancing mission effectiveness and safety.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Weaponry:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>It includes a 120mm smoothbore gun<\/strong>. This gun c<strong>an fire high-penetration projectiles\u00a0<\/strong>and guided ammunition\u00a0<strong>at distances of up to four kilometres<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>additional weaponry consists of a pair of 7.62mm machine guns<\/strong>, an additional 7.62mm machine gun installed on the right side of the turret, and a 60mm mortar.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>features the advanced Windbreaker missile defense system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Smoothbore Gun?<\/h3>\n<p>A smoothbore gun is a type of firearm that has a barrel with a smooth, ungrooved interior surface. Unlike rifled firearms, which have spiral grooves (rifling) cut into the barrel&#8217;s bore, smoothbore guns have a cylindrical bore without any rifling. This lack of rifling results in a smooth, even inner surface.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiantimes.com\/extraordinary-leap-forward-israel-unveils-cutting-edge-5th-genmain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Israel unveils next generation artificially intelligent tank<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Barak, or Lightning, is a fifth-generation main battle tank developed by Israel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15012","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\/15012","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=15012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}