{"id":25831,"date":"2025-11-09T10:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25831"},"modified":"2025-11-10T12:11:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T06:41:40","slug":"long-range-glide-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/long-range-glide-bomb\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Range Glide Bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Long Range Glide Bomb:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>air launched 1,000 kg class<\/strong> glide bomb capable of hitting targets at long distance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>Air to Surface<\/strong> LRGB with conventional warheads to destroy enemy air strips, bunkers, hard installations, buildings etc.<\/li>\n<li>It is designed to <strong>integrate with fighter aircrafts<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It consists of an Inertial<strong> Navigation based guidance system<\/strong> with Digital Control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>GAURAV has been designed and developed indigenously <strong>by the Research Centre Imarat<\/strong> (RCI), Hyderabad.<\/li>\n<li>After being launched, the glide bomb steers towards the target using a highly accurate hybrid navigation scheme with a combination of INS and <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gps\/\" target=\"_blank\">GPS<\/a> data.<\/li>\n<li>During the flight test, the glide bomb hit the target erected at Long Wheeler\u2019s island with pinpoint accuracy.<\/li>\n<li>Complete flight data during the test launch was captured by <strong>Telemetry and Electro optical tracking systems<\/strong> deployed by Integrated Test Range along the coastline.<\/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:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2044995\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DRDO carries out successful maiden flight test of Long Range Glide Bomb \u2018GAURAV\u2019 from Su-30 MK-I platform off Odisha coast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Range Glide Bomb is an air launched 1,000 kg class glide bomb capable of hitting targets at long distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25831","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\/25831","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=25831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}