{"id":22621,"date":"2024-04-19T08:49:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22621"},"modified":"2025-04-06T20:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T15:25:01","slug":"durga-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/durga-2\/","title":{"rendered":"DURGA-2: Directionally Unrestricted Ray Gun Array System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About DURGA-2<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It damages or destroys its target using focused energy by means of lasers, microwaves or particle beams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages: <\/strong>These weapons have several advantages over conventional munitions.\n<ul>\n<li>They transmit <strong>lethal force<\/strong> at the speed of light (about 300,000 kilometers per second).<\/li>\n<li>Their beams are not affected by the constraining <strong>effects of gravity or atmospheric drag.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are extremely precise. Fourth, their effects can be tailored by varying the type and intensity of energy delivered against targets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>aerospace industry<\/strong> can transform the way wars will be fought.<\/li>\n<li>This will enable us to produce cutting edge platforms, weapons, sensors, and networks essential to fight and win a future war.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other countries which have this system: <\/strong>Russia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, and China.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Tactical Nuclear Weapons?<\/h3>\n<p>They are nuclear weapons used for specific tactical gains on the battlefield. They are intended to devastate enemy targets in a specific area without causing widespread destruction and radioactive fallout.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/iran-israel-missile-attack-cost-9278118\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Cost and benefit: Israel\u2019s very expensive defence against aerial threats<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURGA-2 damages or destroys its target using focused energy by means of lasers, microwaves or particle beams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22621","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\/22621","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=22621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}