{"id":2935,"date":"2023-02-18T11:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T05:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:46:06","slug":"suraj-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/suraj-drone\/","title":{"rendered":"SURAJ Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About SURAJ Drones:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>solar-powered<\/strong>, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) high-altitude drone which can fly at an altitude of 3,000 ft.<\/li>\n<li>It is designed specifically for <strong>surveillance operations<\/strong>, providing real-time information to the high command, and protecting jawans on the ground.<\/li>\n<li>It will have ISR capability with <strong>Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and a bionic chip<\/strong> for advanced real-time processing.<\/li>\n<li>The drone would carry a payload of high-resolution zoom cameras with thermal imagery and foliage-penetrating lidar sensors with a maximum capacity of 10 kg.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of capturing, processing, and transmitting photos and videos in real time.<\/li>\n<li>It is all set to support the Indian Army, Navy, Airforce, BSF, CRPF, CISF, ITBP, DRDO, MOD, and the Ministry of Home Affairs.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are drones?<\/h3>\n<p>These are unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and these crafts can carry out an impressive range of tasks, ranging from military operations to package delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/garuda-aerospace-unveils-solar-powered-drone-suraj\/article66513269.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Garuda Aerospace unveils solar-powered drone SURAJ<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a solar-powered, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) high-altitude drone which can fly at an altitude of 3,000 ft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2935","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\/2935","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=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}