{"id":19160,"date":"2024-01-10T06:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T00:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19160"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T10:10:32","slug":"ugram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ugram\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Ugram?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Ugram<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Ugram\u2019 is a state-of-the-art\u00a0indigenous assault rifle.<\/li>\n<li>It has been\u00a0developed by the Armament Research and Development Establishment (ARDE),\u00a0a unit of DRDO, in collaboration with a private industry partner.<\/li>\n<li>It was\u00a0developed in less than 100 days.<\/li>\n<li>It has been developed\u00a0as per the General Staff Qualitative Requirements (GSQR) of the\u00a0army into consideration.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>The rifle will\u00a0deploy rounds of 7.62 mm calibre, making it more ferocious than rifles that use 5.62 mm calibre rounds, like the INSAS rifle, which is popularly used by the armed forces in India, including paramilitary forces.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has an effective\u00a0range of 500 metres.<\/li>\n<li>It\u00a0weighs less than four kilograms.<\/li>\n<li>The rifle has a\u00a020-round magazine that fires\u00a0robust and in full auto mode.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key Facts about Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the\u00a0R&amp;D wing of the 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.<\/li>\n<li>It is India&#8217;s\u00a0largest research organisation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Formation: The organisation was\u00a0formed in 1958 from the amalgamation of the then-existing Technical Development Establishment (TDEs) of the Indian Army and the\u00a0Directorate of Technical Development &amp; Production (DTDP) with the Defence Science Organisation (DSO).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Headquarters: New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>It has a\u00a0network of laboratories engaged in developing defence technologies covering various fields, like aeronautics, armaments, electronics, land combat engineering, life sciences, materials, missiles, and naval systems.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are the General Staff Qualitative Requirements (GSQR)?<\/h3>\n<p>The formulation of the GSQR is one of the initial processes of any new capital procurement. It broadly lays down the reason why the equipment is required, its physical and operational details, as well as the maintainability and quality requirements. The onus of formulating the GSQR rests with the parent directorate that wants the equipment or a nominated directorate, in case the equipment is required by more than one arm\/service.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aninews.in\/news\/national\/general-news\/drdo-launches-indigenous-assault-rifle-ugram-for-armed-forces20240109173930\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>DRDO launches indigenous assault rifle &#8216;Ugram&#8217; for armed forces<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugram is a state-of-the-art indigenous assault rifle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19160","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\/19160","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=19160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}