{"id":15919,"date":"2023-10-16T03:18:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T21:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15919"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T15:38:25","slug":"jericho-missile-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/jericho-missile-system\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Jericho Missile System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Jericho Missile System:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Jericho is\u00a0<strong>Israel&#8217;s original ballistic missile programme<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>initiated<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>in<\/strong> the\u00a0<strong>1960s<\/strong> and named after the biblical city located in the West Bank.<\/li>\n<li>This programme was\u00a0<strong>initially a<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>collaboration with the French<\/strong> aerospace company Dassault, but when\u00a0<strong>France withdrew in 1969<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Israel continued<\/strong> its development.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jericho-1:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It had a weight of\u00a0<strong>6.5 tonnes<\/strong>, a\u00a0<strong>length of 13.4 metres<\/strong>, and a\u00a0<strong>diameter<\/strong> of\u00a0<strong>0.8 metres.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It had a\u00a0<strong>range of 500 kilometres<\/strong> and could\u00a0<strong>carry a 1,000-kilogram payload<\/strong>, though it had a 50 percent chance of hitting within a 1,000-metre radius of its target.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>retired in the 1990s.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jericho-2:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It was\u00a0<strong>developed in<\/strong> the late\u00a0<strong>1980s<\/strong>, with a\u00a0<strong>length of 15 metres<\/strong> and a\u00a0<strong>diameter of 1.35 metres<\/strong>, while maintaining the\u00a0<strong>same payload capacity<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It had a\u00a0<strong>range\u00a0<\/strong>between\u00a0<strong>1,500 and 3,500 kilometres<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jericho-3:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the first\u00a0<strong>Israeli Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was first\u00a0<strong>tested in 2008<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>entered service in 2011.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It featured improvements over the previous models, with a\u00a0<strong>longer length than Jericho-2 and a larger diameter of 1.56 metres.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has an estimated\u00a0<strong>launch<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>weight of 29,000 kg<\/strong> and a\u00a0<strong>payload of\u00a0<\/strong>1,000 to\u00a0<strong>1,300 kg.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a\u00a0<strong>range of 4,800 to 6,500 km<\/strong> and uses\u00a0<strong>inertial guidance<\/strong> with a\u00a0<strong>radar-guided warhead.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The missile is reportedly equipped with a\u00a0<strong>750-kg nuclear warhead.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Ballistic Missile?<\/h3>\n<p>Ballistic missiles are powered initially by a rocket or series of rockets in stages, but then follow an unpowered trajectory that arches upwards before descending to reach its intended target. Ballistic missiles can carry either nuclear or conventional warheads.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/what-is-jericho-missile-system-israels-potential-doomsday-nuclear-option-645628#tbl-em-lnsep5w7ejp3r2ithib\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><u>What is Jericho missile system? Israel&#8217;s potential &#8216;doomsday&#8217; nuclear option<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jericho is Israel&#8217;s original ballistic missile programme, initiated in the 1960s and named after the biblical city located in the West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15919","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\/15919","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=15919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}