{"id":24562,"date":"2024-06-28T06:19:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T00:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24562"},"modified":"2025-04-07T10:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T04:55:45","slug":"microwave-obscurant-chaff-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/microwave-obscurant-chaff-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Microwave Obscurant Chaff Rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Microwave Obscurant Chaff Rocket:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Microwave Obscurant Chaff (MOC) is a niche technology developed by DRDO\u2019s Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>obscures radar signals<\/strong> and creates a microwave shield around platforms and assets, thus reducing radar detection.<\/li>\n<li>Special type of fibres, with diameter of a few micrometers and unique microwave obscuration properties, has been assembled in the medium range chaff rocket.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How does it function?:<\/strong> When the rocket is fired it forms a microwave<strong> obscurant cloud<\/strong> in space spreading over a sufficient area, with adequate persistence time, thus <strong>creating an effective shield<\/strong> against hostile threats having Radio Frequency seekers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/quest-upsc-notes\/defence-research-and-development-organisation-drdo\/\" target=\"_blank\">DRDO<\/a> has indigenously developed three variants of this critical technology namely <strong>Short Range Chaff Rocket<\/strong> (SRCR), <strong>Medium Range Chaff Rocket<\/strong> (MRCR) and <strong>Long Range Chaff Rocket (LRCR).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Phases<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Phase-I trials<\/strong> of MR-MOCR were successfully conducted from Indian Navy ships, demonstrating the <strong>MOC cloud blooming<\/strong> and being persistent in space.<\/li>\n<li>In <strong>Phase-II trials,<\/strong> the <strong>Radar Cross Section<\/strong> (RCS) reduction of an aerial target to the extent of 90 per cent has been demonstrated and cleared by the Indian Navy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Radiation?<\/h3>\n<p>It is energy that moves from one place to another in a form that can be described as waves or particles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2028794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DRDO hands over Medium Range-Microwave Obscurant Chaff Rocket to Indian Navy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microwave Obscurant Chaff Rocket  is a niche technology developed by DRDO\u2019s Defence Laboratory, Jodhpur,.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24562","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\/24562","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=24562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}