{"id":23215,"date":"2025-11-09T03:38:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23215"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:35:29","slug":"glide-phase-interceptor-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/glide-phase-interceptor-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) Project:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>missile-intercepting system<\/strong> under joint development by the <strong>US and Japan.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>By the end of 2032, Washington and Tokyo aim to achieve full operational capability for the system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Glide Phase?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>With a traditional Intercontinental <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/types-of-missiles-in-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ballistic Missile<\/a> <\/strong>(ICBM), the warhead separates from its booster and continues on a parabolic, gravity driven trajectory to its target.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A hypersonic weapon<\/strong>, by contrast, <strong>separates <\/strong>from its booster <strong>after the peak of its trajectory<\/strong> and<strong> accelerates toward the Earth using gravity<\/strong>. It <strong>then performs<\/strong> a <strong>pitch manoeuvre<\/strong> to <strong>begin a flatter trajectorycalled<\/strong> the <strong>glide phase.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Unlike typical ballistic missiles, the hypersonic and glide vehicles <strong>travel at five times<\/strong> (or more) the <strong>speed of sound<\/strong> on an unpredictable trajectory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>What is the Project all about?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hypersonic weapons<\/strong> or missiles pose a<strong> unique challenge<\/strong> due to their <strong>blinding speeds <\/strong>and relatively <strong>low altitudes<\/strong> (20 to 80 km) <strong>during the glide phase<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They can <strong>navigate around<\/strong> areas containing known <strong>missile defence sensors<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These characteristics make it particularly <strong>challenging for ground-based radar<\/strong> systems <strong>to track them<\/strong> efficiently.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>GPI Project<\/strong> aims to <strong>provide regional hypersonic missile defence<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It will achieve this by <strong>launching specially modified missiles<\/strong> from surface warships.<\/li>\n<li>These <strong>missiles<\/strong> will<strong> engage and destroy incominghypersonic missilesas they glide through<\/strong> the <strong>boundary between space and Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The \u201c<strong>glide\u201d phase<\/strong> of the missile\u2019s trajectory provides the<strong> best opportunityto intercept it<\/strong> before it enters its last high-speed drop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)?<\/h3>\n<p>An ICBM is a guided missile that is designed to deliver nuclear warheads, although it could also deliver other payloads. According to the Federation of American Scientists, ICBMs have a minimum range of 5,500 kilometers (3,400 miles), with maximum ranges varying from 7,000 to 16,000 kilometers. ICBMs are much faster and have a greater range than other types of ballistic missiles. Agni-V is an Indian ICBM with a range of over 5,000 km.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news9live.com\/knowledge\/what-is-the-glide-phase-interceptor-gpi-programme-2529244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Explained: What is the Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) programme?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glide Phase Interceptor (GPI) Project is a missile-intercepting system under joint development by the US and Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23215","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\/23215","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=23215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}