{"id":15875,"date":"2023-10-15T03:06:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T21:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15875"},"modified":"2025-04-03T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:56:49","slug":"davids-sling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/davids-sling\/","title":{"rendered":"What is David\u2019s Sling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About David\u2019s Sling:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0<strong>Israeli medium-range air defense system<\/strong> designed t<strong>o defeat short-range ballistic missiles,<\/strong> large-caliber rockets,\u00a0<strong>and cruise missiles<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Co-developed with the United States<\/strong>, it occupies\u00a0<strong>middle part of Israel&#8217;s<\/strong> sophisticated and multi-layer\u00a0<strong>air-defense network<\/strong>, between the point-defense Iron Dome and upper-tier Arrow systems.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It incorporates a\u00a0<strong>vertical missile firing unit<\/strong>, a\u00a0<strong>fire control radar<\/strong>, a\u00a0<strong>battle management<\/strong>\/operator\u00a0<strong>station<\/strong>, and the\u00a0<strong>Stunner interceptor.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Each firing uni<\/strong>t can\u00a0<strong>hold up to 12 missiles.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>designed to intercept<\/strong> ballistic and cruise\u00a0<strong>missiles at ranges of 40 to 300 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>uses a three-pulse solid propellant motor<\/strong> to reach\u00a0<strong>speeds of up to Mach 7.5;<\/strong> its first two pulses accelerate the missile through its initial trajectory while the third activates to maneuver the interceptor and increase speed prior to intercept.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unlike Iron Dome\u2019s, Stunner has no warhead<\/strong>, defeating targets by striking them directly.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Each Stunner missile<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>costs<\/strong> an estimated\u00a0<strong>$1 million to produce.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Iron Dome?<\/h3>\n<p>It is Israel\u2019s air missile defense system that can defend against short-range rockets, intercepting them in the air above the state. It is capable of successfully handling multiple rockets at a time. Developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries, the system became operational in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.in\/international\/news\/hamas-is-testing-the-layers-of-israels-sophisticated-air-defense-network-heres-how-it-fends-off-threats-\/articleshow\/104408383.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>Hamas is testing the layers of Israel&#8217;s sophisticated air-defense network. Here&#8217;s how it fends off threats.<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David\u2019s Sling is an Israeli medium-range air defense system designed to defeat short-range ballistic missiles, large-caliber rockets, and cruise missiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15876,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15875","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\/15875","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=15875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}