{"id":2967,"date":"2023-02-09T01:26:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T19:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2025-03-26T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T03:58:15","slug":"what-is-the-quick-reaction-surface-to-air-missile-qrsam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-quick-reaction-surface-to-air-missile-qrsam\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Quick Reaction Surface to Air Missile (QRSAM):<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>QRSAM is a <strong>Short Range Surface to Air Missile system<\/strong> designed <strong>to protect moving armoured columns from aerial attacks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was designed and developed by the <strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The entire weapon system is <strong>configured on highly mobile platforms<\/strong> and is capable of <strong>providing air defence on the move.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range: 30 km<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>propelled by Single Stage Solid Rocket Motor.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>engage 6 targets simultaneously.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Surface to Air Missiles?\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Surface-to-air missile (SAM) or Ground-to-air missile (GTAM) is a missile launched from ground position to intercept and destroy enemy aircraft or missiles. It has excellent acceleration that is usually guided by radar or infrared.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/indigenous-quick-reaction-surface-to-air-missile-to-be-tested-again-in-april\/article66485697.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Surface-to-air missile | DRDO working to fix a few glitches<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QRSAM is a Short-Range Surface to Air Missile designed to protect moving armoured columns from aerial attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2968,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2967","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\/2967","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=2967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}