{"id":17096,"date":"2023-11-18T03:20:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T21:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=17096"},"modified":"2025-04-05T02:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T20:38:14","slug":"zorawar-light-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/zorawar-light-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"Zorawar Light Tank"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Zorawar Light Tank<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0indigenously designed and developed Light Tank.<\/li>\n<li>It was developed\u00a0by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in\u00a0collaboration with Larsen &amp; Toubro Limited.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It is designed to\u00a0operate in varying terrain, from high-altitude areas and marginal terrains to island territories.<\/li>\n<li>It will be\u00a0highly transportable for rapid deployment to meet any operational situation.<\/li>\n<li>It will be equipped with all the\u00a0modern technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence, Drone Integration, a high\u00a0degree of situational awareness, and\u00a0amphibious operation capability.<\/li>\n<li>It will\u00a0weigh less than 25 tonnes with a\u00a0high power-to-weight ratio as well as superior firepower and protection.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Who was Zorawar?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He was a\u00a0military general, Zorawar Singh Kahluria, and had\u00a0served under Jammu\u2019s Raja Gulab Singh in the 19th Century.<\/li>\n<li>He is\u00a0honoured for his conquests in the Himalayas,\u00a0including Ladakh, Tibet, Baltistan, and Skardu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Defence Research and Development Organisation (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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/defence\/indias-zorawar-light-tank-designed-for-operations-on-china-border-to-be-ready-this-months-for-trials-in-december\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India&#8217;s &#8216;Zorawar&#8217; Light Tank, Designed For Operations On China Border, To Be Ready This Month For Trials In December<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zorawar is an indigenously designed and developed Light Tank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17097,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17096","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\/17096","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=17096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}