{"id":27245,"date":"2024-10-14T06:07:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T00:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27245"},"modified":"2025-10-11T12:48:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T07:18:05","slug":"dragon-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dragon-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"What are Dragon drones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Dragon drones:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Dragon drones essentially release a substance called thermite \u2014 a mixture of aluminium and iron oxide \u2014 developed a century ago to weld railroad tracks.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Working<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>When ignited (usually with the help of an electrical fuse), thermite triggers a self-sustaining reaction that is quite difficult to extinguish.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It can burn through almost anything, from clothes to trees to military-grade vehicles, and can even burn underwater. On humans, it causes severe, possibly fatal, burns and bone damage.<\/li>\n<li>On humans, it causes severe, possibly fatal, burns and bone damage.<\/li>\n<li>Combining thermite with high-precision drones that can bypass traditional defences makes dragon drones \u2018highly effective\u2019 and \u2018dangerous\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>In recent time these dragon drones are believed to have been first deployed in the Russia-Ukraine war around September.<\/li>\n<li><strong>International regulation<\/strong>\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The use of thermite in war is not prohibited under international law.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>However, the use of such incendiary weapons against civilian targets is barred under the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons \u2014 Cold War-era guidance issued under the auspices of the United Nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What are Tethered Drones?<\/h3>\n<p>A tethered drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle tethered to the ground. It consists of a base station on the ground and the drone, which is connected to the station through the tether (cable).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-global\/dragon-drones-russia-ukraine-war-9618024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What are \u2018dragon drones\u2019, the latest weapon being used in Russia-Ukraine war?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dragon drones essentially release a substance called thermite \u2014 a mixture of aluminium and iron oxide \u2014 developed a century ago to weld railroad tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27245","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\/27245","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=27245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}