{"id":28185,"date":"2024-11-23T12:08:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T06:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28185"},"modified":"2025-10-13T14:37:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T09:07:04","slug":"rs-26-rubezh-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/rs-26-rubezh-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"RS-26 Rubezh Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About RS-26 Rubezh Missile:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>RS-26 is an <strong>intercontinental ballistic missile<\/strong> which was first successfully tested in 2012.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is estimated to be 12 metres long and <strong>weigh 36 tons and can carry an 800-kg (<\/strong>1,760-lb) nuclear warhead.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is a ballistic missile whose classification oscillates between medium-range <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ballistic-missiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">ballistic missile<\/a> (IRBM) and <strong>intercontinental ballistic missile<\/strong> (ICBM), depending on configurations and adopted definitions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range:<\/strong> Its estimated range, <strong>between 2,000 and 6,000 kilometers,<\/strong> corresponds to the medium-range ballistic missile category, primarily used for regional strikes.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of carrying <strong>Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles<\/strong> (MIRVed ).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Its development was led by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology (MITT), one of Russia\u2019s leading ballistic missile design centers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An ICBM is a guided missile that is <strong>designed to deliver nuclear warheads,<\/strong> although it could also deliver other payloads.<\/li>\n<li>According to the Federation of American Scientists, ICBMs have a <strong>minimum range of 5,500 kilometres <\/strong>(3,400 miles), with maximum ranges varying from 7,000 to 16,000 kilometres.<\/li>\n<li>ICBMs are much <strong>faster and have a greater range<\/strong> than other types of ballistic missiles.<\/li>\n<li>Agni-V is an Indian ICBM with a range of over 5,000 km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a Missile?<\/h3>\n<p>A missile is a guided airborne ranged weapon capable of self-propelled flight usually by a jet engine or rocket motor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/russia-ukraine-war-icbm-rs-26-rubezh-fired-dnipro-vladimir-putin-2637280-2024-11-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">What is ICBM, powerful nuclear-capable missile used by Russia on Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RS-26 Rubezh Missile  is an intercontinental ballistic missile which was first successfully tested in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28185","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\/28185","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=28185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}