{"id":20156,"date":"2024-06-28T06:50:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T01:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20156"},"modified":"2025-04-05T22:45:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:15:27","slug":"what-is-abhyas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-abhyas\/","title":{"rendered":"What is ABHYAS?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About ABHYAS:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>High Speed Expendable Aerial Target<\/strong>\u00a0(HEAT).<\/li>\n<li>It has been designed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/quest-upsc-notes\/defence-research-and-development-organisation-drdo\/\" target=\"_blank\">DRDO\u2019s<\/a> <strong>Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bengaluru<\/strong>, and developed through Production Agencies &#8211; Hindustan Aeronautics Limited &amp; Larsen &amp; Toubro.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It offers a\u00a0<strong>realistic threat scenario<\/strong>\u00a0for weapon systems practice.<\/li>\n<li>This indigenous system is designed for\u00a0<strong>autonomous flying<\/strong>\u00a0with the help of an autopilot, a laptop-based Ground Control System for aircraft integration, pre-flight checks, and autonomous flight.<\/li>\n<li>It also has a feature to record data during flight for post-flight analysis.<\/li>\n<li>The booster has been designed by Advanced Systems Laboratory and the navigation system by Research Centre Imarat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key Facts about DRDO<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0<strong>was formed in 1958<\/strong>\u00a0from the amalgamation of the then-existing\u00a0<strong>Technical Development Establishment<\/strong>\u00a0(TDEs) of the Indian Army and the\u00a0<strong>Directorate of Technical Development and Production<\/strong>\u00a0(DTDP) with the Defence Science Organisation (DSO).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the R&amp;D wing of the\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Defence,<\/strong>\u00a0Govt. 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 has a network of\u00a0<strong>laboratories<\/strong>\u00a0engaged in developing defence technologies covering various fields, like aeronautics, armaments, electronics etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters:<\/strong>\u00a0New Delhi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is aeronautics?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the study of the science of flight. Aeronautics is the method of designing an airplane or other flying machine. There are four basic areas that aeronautical engineers must understand in order to be able to design planes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2029196\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">High Speed Expendable Aerial Target \u2018ABHYAS\u2019 successfully completes developmental trials with improved booster configuration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABHYAS has been designed by DRDO\u2019s Aeronautical Development Establishment, Bengaluru, and developed through Production Agencies &#8211; Hindustan Aeronautics Limited &#038; Larsen &#038; Toubro. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20156","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\/20156","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=20156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}