{"id":15628,"date":"2025-02-22T05:31:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15628"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:41:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T13:11:06","slug":"what-is-iron-dome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-iron-dome\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Dome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Iron Dome Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, the US President signed an Executive Order to build an Iron Dome-style missile defence system to shield the United States against the \u201cthreat of attack by ballistic, hypersonic, and cruise missiles, and other advanced aerial attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>About Iron Dome<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is I<strong>srael\u2019s air missile defense system<\/strong> that can defend against short-range rockets, intercepting them in the air above the state.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>short-range mobile air defense system<\/strong> developed for Israel by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, with additional support from Raytheon.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>First deployed in 2011, Iron Dome constitutes the innermost layer of the tiered Israeli air defense network.<\/li>\n<li>It has <strong>all-weather capabilities<\/strong> and is able to function night or day and in all conditions, including fog, rain, dust storms, and low clouds.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is able to launch a variety of interceptor missiles.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is designed to shoot down missiles with a <strong>range of about 40 miles or less.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also has the<strong> ability to be moved, either onto ships or across land,<\/strong> to better suit defense needs.<\/li>\n<li>It must be reloaded to continuously intercept incoming missiles.<\/li>\n<li>The Iron Dome operates through three main components:\n<ul>\n<li>a radar that detects incoming rockets,<\/li>\n<li>a command-and-control system that determines the threat level,<\/li>\n<li>an interceptor that seeks to destroy the incoming rocket before it strikes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Iron Dome FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is meant by Iron Dome?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Iron Dome is the best known of Israel&#8217;s missile shields.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the Indian version of Iron Dome?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Akash Missile System is a surface-to-air missile system that can intercept aerial targets at ranges up to 30 kilometres.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which country has Iron Dome system?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Israel<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orfonline.org\/expert-speak\/the-us-iron-dome-eyeing-an-advanced-shield-against-hypersonic-threats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ORF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Iron Dome is Israel\u2019s air missile defense system that can defend against short-range rockets, intercepting them in the air above the state<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15628","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\/15628","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=15628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}