{"id":16975,"date":"2025-05-05T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T05:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16975"},"modified":"2025-05-22T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T10:46:13","slug":"igla-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/igla-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Igla-S"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Igla-S Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>India recently received a fresh shipment of Russian Igla-S air defence missiles amid rising tensions with Pakistan following the Pahalgam terror attack.<\/p>\n<h2>About Igla-S<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>Man Portable Air Defence System (MANPADS) developed by Russia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a hand-held defence system that can be<strong>\u00a0operated by an individual or crew.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is designed to\u00a0<strong>bring down low-flying aircraft\u00a0<\/strong>and can also identify and neutralise air targets such as\u00a0<strong>cruise missiles and drones.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Igla-S Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Igla-S system comprises the 9M342 missile, the 9P522 launching mechanism, the 9V866-2 mobile test station, and the 9F719-2 test set. These components work together to provide a comprehensive air defence solution.<\/li>\n<li>Weighing only 10.8 kilograms (missile) and 18 kilograms (entire system), it offers\u00a0<strong>significant battlefield mobility.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Its\u00a0<strong>compact form<\/strong>\u00a0makes it ideal for mobile ground units in high-threat zones.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>uses infrared (IR) homing<\/strong>\u00a0to lock onto the heat signatures of aerial targets.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of\u00a0<strong>engaging targets up to 6 km away\u00a0<\/strong>and at altitudes of up to 3.5 km.<\/li>\n<li>The speed of the missile is 400 metres per second and the deployment time is 13 seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/videos\/international\/india-receives-igla-s-air-defences-from-russia-new-missiles-for-forward-deployment-amid-pak-tensions\/videoshow\/120870670.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Igla-S is a Russian-developed Man Portable Air Defence System (MANPADS) designed to target and destroy low-flying aircraft with high precision and mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[346],"class_list":{"0":"post-16975","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-igla-s","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975","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=16975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}