{"id":27211,"date":"2025-03-05T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T04:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27211"},"modified":"2025-04-08T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T02:26:11","slug":"taurus-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/taurus-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Taurus Missile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Taurus KEPD-350 Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Sweden has taken a key step in strengthening its air force\u2019s long-range strike capabilities by selecting the Taurus KEPD-350 air-launched cruise missile for integration with its Gripen fighter jets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>About Taurus KEPD-350<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>modular<\/strong>, <strong>air-launched, long-range, precision-guided cruise missile.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is designed and <strong>produced by Taurus Systems <\/strong>GmbH, a j<strong>oint venture between Germany\u2019s <\/strong>MBDA Deutschland GmbH <strong>and Sweden\u2019s<\/strong> Saab Bofors Dynamics.<\/li>\n<li>It can penetrate through dense air defence systems and <strong>destroy <\/strong>the hard and deeply buried s<strong>tationary and semi-stationary military targets on ground.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The missile entered operational service in 2005.<\/li>\n<li>The missile is used by air forces in Germany, Spain, and South Korea, among others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Taurus KEPD-350 Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Measuring 5 meters in length and with a wingspan of 2.1 meters, the missile weighs approximately 1,400 kilograms.<\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>range of more than 500 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is powered by a <strong>turbofan engine,<\/strong> which provides the missile with a cruise speed of about Mach 0.6 to 0.95 at very low altitudes.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>missile is made of modular sections<\/strong> which can be configured based on the individual missions.<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>electronic systems are also modular.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is suitable for day and night and <strong>all-weather deployment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Navigation of the missile is controlled through the <strong>Tri-Tec navigation system<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>combines data from an inertial navigation system<\/strong> (INS), MIL-global positioning system (<strong>GPS<\/strong>), <strong>terrain reference navigation (TRN<\/strong>), and <strong>infrared seeker <\/strong>based image based navigation (IBN) sensors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Taurus KEPD-350 FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the range of the Taurus KEPD-350 missile?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It has a range of more than 500 km.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is a Cruise Missile?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is a type of low-flying strategic guided missile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which is the fastest cruise missile in the world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The fastest cruise missile in the world is the BrahMos, which can reach speeds of Mach 3.5.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurasiantimes.com\/sweden-selects-taurus-cruise-missiles-for-gripen\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taurus Missile is a German-origin precision-guided, long-range air-to-surface cruise missile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27211","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\/27211","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=27211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}