{"id":18098,"date":"2023-12-13T06:29:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T00:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2025-04-05T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:10:23","slug":"karrar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/karrar\/","title":{"rendered":"Karrar Combat Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Karrar Combat Drones<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) developed\u00a0by Iran.<\/li>\n<li>It is the\u00a0first long-endurance, combat-capable Iranian drone.<\/li>\n<li>It will be strategically deployed along border areas, providing air defense units with the capability to\u00a0intercept and neutralize hostile aerial threats\u00a0at significantly reduced costs compared to traditional manned fighter sorties.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>The Karrar drone, which was first introduced in 2010, has an\u00a0operational range of up to 1,000 kilometers\u00a0(620 miles).<\/li>\n<li>It has a\u00a0maximum speed granted\u00a0by its turbojet installation of 560 miles per hour.<\/li>\n<li>It reportedly boasts a\u00a0service ceiling altitude of 47,000 feet.<\/li>\n<li>Lacking any retractable or fixed undercarriage, the Karrar is\u00a0launched via rocket-assist (with a catapult launching rail) and is\u00a0recovered by way of a parachute-retarded freefall.<\/li>\n<li>It has been\u00a0equipped with the Majid thermal missile with a\u00a0range of 8 kilometers.<\/li>\n<li>The Iranian-made\u00a0Majid air defense missile features advanced thermal and optical seekers, enhancing its tracking and interception capabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)?<\/h3>\n<p>An UAV is an aircraft that carries no human pilot or passengers. UAVs\u2014sometimes called drones\u2014can be fully or partially autonomous but are more often controlled remotely by a human pilot. RAND research has contributed to the public discussion on the use of drones for warfare and surveillance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/middle-east\/iran-unveils-advanced-karrar-combat-drones-armed-with-majid-air-to-air-missiles-to-be-used-along-border-668190\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Iran unveils advanced Karrar combat drones armed with Majid air-to-air missiles, to be used along border<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karrar Combat Drones is an Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) developed by Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18098","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\/18098","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=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}