{"id":24740,"date":"2024-07-04T08:03:49","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T02:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24740"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T07:21:17","slug":"rudram-1-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rudram-1-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudram-1 Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Rudram-1 Missile:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>Air \u2013 to surface missile<\/strong> developed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/quest-upsc-notes\/defence-research-and-development-organisation-drdo\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defence Research and Development Organisation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It is integrated with the IAF&#8217;s <strong>Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jets<\/strong> which serves as the launch platform.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is India\u2019s first <strong>indigenous anti-radiation missile<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It features Inertial Navigation Systems (INS)-GPS navigation and a Passive Homing Head for final attack, allowing it to accurately hit <strong>radiation-emitting targets.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>INS-GPS navigation provides a technological edge, enabling accurate targeting over a wide range of frequencies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range:<\/strong> The missile can be launched from varying altitudes, ranging from 500 meters to 15 kilometers, and has <strong>a range of up to 250 kilometers<\/strong> depending on the launch conditions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed:<\/strong> Up to Mach 2<\/li>\n<li>This flexibility allows the IAF to adapt to different operational scenarios, enhancing its combat effectiveness.<\/li>\n<li>This precision is crucial for <strong>Suppression of Enemy Air Defence<\/strong> (SEAD) operations, enabling the destruction of enemy radars and communication sites from long standoff ranges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is the inertial navigation system (INS)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a self-contained navigation technique in which measurements provided by accelerometers and gyroscopes are used to track the position and orientation of an object relative to a known starting point, orientation and velocity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/defence-india-successfully-test-fires-new-generation-anti-radiation-missile-rudram-1-3541569\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">India successfully test-fires new generation anti-radiation missile \u2018Rudram-1\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rudram-1 Missile is an Air \u2013 to surface missile developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24740","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\/24740","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=24740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}