{"id":18374,"date":"2023-12-20T03:54:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T22:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18374"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T05:00:12","slug":"samar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/samar\/","title":{"rendered":"SAMAR Air Defence Missile System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About SAMAR Air Defence Missile System<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Surface to Air Missile for Assured Retaliation (SAMAR) is a\u00a0short-range air-defence system.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has been\u00a0developed by a unit under the IAF\u2019s Maintenance Command.<\/li>\n<li>The system is credited with a maximum\u00a0range of 10\u201312 km and is used\u00a0against low-flying aerial targets.<\/li>\n<li>It can engage aerial threats with\u00a0missiles operating at a speed range of 2 to 2.5 Mach.<\/li>\n<li>The SAMAR-1 system uses the IAF&#8217;s existing inventory of shelf-life-expired Russian Vympel R-73E infrared\u2010guided air-to-air missiles (AAMs) for the surface-to-air role.<\/li>\n<li>The system features a\u00a0twin-turret launch platform capable of\u00a0launching two missiles in single and salvo modes, depending on the threat scenario.<\/li>\n<li>Each missile launcher had an\u00a0electro-optic system visible.<\/li>\n<li>It is expected to\u00a0supplement the IAF\u2019s Akash and SPYDER systems, replacing the ageing improved Pechora and OSA-AK systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Akash Missile (SAM) Defence System<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0a Short-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (SRSAM) Defence System to protect vulnerable areas and points from air attacks.<\/li>\n<li>It was indigenously designed and developed by the\u00a0Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It can\u00a0simultaneously engage multiple targets and destroy maneuvering targets, including unmanned aerial vehicles, fighter aircraft, cruise missiles, and missiles launched from helicopters.<\/li>\n<li>It has built-in\u00a0Electronic Counter-Counter Measures (ECCM) features.<\/li>\n<li>The entire weapon system has been configured to be launched from static or mobile platforms such as battle tanks and wheeled trucks, providing flexible deployment.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0road and rail transportable, with\u00a0quick mobilization and deployment capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>It can engage aerial targets up to a\u00a0range of approximately 25km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is infrared radiation?<\/h3>\n<p>Infrared radiation (IR), sometimes referred to simply as infrared, is a region of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum where wavelengths range from about 700 nanometers (nm) to 1 millimeter (mm)Infrared waves are longer than visible light waves but shorter than radio waves. Correspondingly, the frequencies of IR are higher than microwave frequencies but lower than visible light frequencies, ranging from about 300 gigahertz to 400 terahertz (THz).It is invisible to human eyes but that we can feel as heat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/indian-air-force-successfully-testfires-samar-air-defence-missile-system-at-exercise-astrashakti20231217130243\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian Air Force successfully testfires &#8216;SAMAR&#8217; air defence missile system at Exercise Astrashakti<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surface to Air Missile for Assured Retaliation (SAMAR) is a short-range air-defence system. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18374","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\/18374","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=18374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}