{"id":17007,"date":"2023-11-16T04:15:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17007"},"modified":"2025-04-05T01:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:01:25","slug":"nirbhay-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nirbhay-cruise-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Nirbhay Cruise Missile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Nirbhay Cruise Missile<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0long-range sub-sonic cruise missile.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0India\u2019s first indigenously-produced cruise missile.<\/li>\n<li>The missile was\u00a0developed by the\u00a0Bengaluru-based Aeronautical Development Establishment,\u00a0a lab under India&#8217;s Defence Research and Development Organization\u00a0(DRDO).<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0capable of deep penetration into adversary territory to strike high-value targets with precision.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>The Nirbhay measures 6.0 m in length, 0.5 m in body diameter, and\u00a0weighs\u00a01,500-1,600 kg at launch.<\/li>\n<li>It can\u00a0strike land targets\u00a0at a distance of\u00a0up to 1,000 kilometers.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0uses a\u00a0solid propellant booster motor that\u00a0is jettisoned shortly after launch,\u00a0switching over to a turbojet engine.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0capable of loitering and\u00a0cruising at Mach 0.7 (sub-sonic) at altitudes as low as 100 meters.<\/li>\n<li>It can be armed with a 200-300 kilogram warhead. It\u00a0can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads.<\/li>\n<li>It can be\u00a0launched from multiple platforms.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0guided by INS\/GPS with an\u00a0active-radar terminal seeker.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO)?<\/h3>\n<p>DRDO is the R&amp;D wing of Ministry of Defence, Govt of India, with a vision to empower India with cutting-edge defence technologies and a mission to achieve self-reliance in critical defence technologies and systems, while equipping our armed forces with state-of-the-art weapon systems and equipment in accordance with requirements laid down by the three Services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/indian-army-indian-navy-indian-air-force-to-have-nirbhay-and-pralay-missiles-in-a-large-number-2462917-2023-11-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Armed forces to have long, intermediate-range missiles in its inventory: Sources<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nirbhay is a long-range subsonic cruise missile. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17007","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\/17007","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=17007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}