{"id":23326,"date":"2024-05-12T06:09:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T00:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23326"},"modified":"2025-04-07T01:46:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T20:16:52","slug":"kamikaze-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kamikaze-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamikaze drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kamikaze drone<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are small <strong>unmanned aircraft<\/strong> packed with <strong>explosives<\/strong> that can be flown directly at a tank or a group of troops that are destroyed when it hits the target and explodes.<\/li>\n<li>These are also called Switchblade<strong> drones<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The name comes from the World War 2 era\u2019s feared Japanese kamikaze pilots, who conducted suicide attacks by intentionally crashing their explosive filled aircraft into enemy targets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The modern drone versions have the capability of surpassing traditional defences to strike their targets and are also cheaper than their larger counterparts.<\/li>\n<li>The small lethal drones are <strong>difficult to detect on radar<\/strong>, and through the use of facial recognition, can be programmed to <strong>hit targets without human intervention.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Although the US Kamikaze might be the most advanced in this class of drones, Russia, <strong>China, Israel, Iran and Turkey<\/strong> all have some versions of it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>What is the Lancet-3 drone?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a type of <strong>loitering munition,<\/strong> which integrates the Jetson TX2 \u2014 described by Nvidia as the most power-efficient <strong>embedded AI computing device.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is an explosive?<\/h3>\n<p>It is any substance or device that can be made to produce a volume of rapidly expanding gas in an extremely brief period. There are three fundamental types: mechanical, nuclear, and chemical.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/europe\/russias-killer-lancet-drone-are-running-on-us-ai\/articleshow\/110004683.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Russia&#8217;s killer Lancet drone are running on US AI&#8217;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamikaze drones are small unmanned aircraft packed with explosives that can be flown directly at a tank or a group of troops that are destroyed when it hits the target and explodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23326","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\/23326","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=23326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}