{"id":16863,"date":"2023-11-09T01:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T20:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16863"},"modified":"2025-04-05T00:33:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T19:03:21","slug":"hermes-900-starliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hermes-900-starliner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermes 900 Starliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Hermes 900 Starliner<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0Israeli-made medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0larger variant of the Hermes 900.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It has a wing span of 17m and a maximum\u00a0take-off weight of 1,600kg.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The aircraft has a\u00a0service ceiling of 30,000ft and offers a\u00a0flight endurance of up to 36 hours.<\/li>\n<li>The aircraft\u2019s\u00a0automatic take-off and landing (ATOL) capability\u00a0allows it to take-off and land in near-zero visibility environments.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>An\u00a0active de-icing system is installed for removing ice from surfaces to ensure safe operation in icing conditions.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0can carry\u00a0a range of multi-sensor payloads weighing up to 450kg for multiple applications.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0onboard imaging sensors capture real-time imagery\/video and\u00a0provide wide-area persistent surveillance during both the day and night.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with a\u00a0terrain avoidance warning system (TAWS) for terrain prediction and obstacle avoidance.<\/li>\n<li>It is equipped with\u00a0synthetic aperture radar (SAR), a\u00a0ground moving target indicator (GMTI) radar,\u00a0and maritime patrol radar to detect, locate and acquire targets.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It can\u00a0also carry electronic warfare payloads to provide airborne electronic attack capability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a radar?<\/h3>\n<p>Radar, short for &#8220;Radio Detection and Ranging,&#8221; is a technology that uses radio waves to detect, locate, track, and identify objects in the surrounding environment. It is widely used in various fields, including aviation, military, meteorology, navigation, and more. Radar systems operate by emitting radio waves and then detecting the reflected signals, allowing them to determine the distance, speed, direction, and other characteristics of objects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/india\/india-set-to-boost-surveillance-capabilities-with-israeli-hermes-900-starliners-drones-2763002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>`India set to boost surveillance capabilities with Israeli Hermes 900 Starliners drones<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermes 900 Starliner is an Israeli-made medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16863","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\/16863","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=16863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}