{"id":31661,"date":"2025-04-02T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T05:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31661"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:15:38","slug":"9k33-osa-ak-missile-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/9k33-osa-ak-missile-system\/","title":{"rendered":"9K33 Osa-AK Missile System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>9K33 Osa-AK Missile System Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Indian Army\u2019s Air Defence warriors from the White Tiger Division have proven their operational readiness and technical expertise during a recent live missile-firing exercise which involved the firing of the 9K33 Osa-AK missile system.<\/p>\n<h2>About 9K33 Osa-AK Missile System<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Russian-built highly mobile<\/strong>, <strong>low-altitude, short-range tactical surface-to-air defence missile system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Originally <strong>developed in the 1960s<\/strong> and <strong>fielded by the Soviet Unio<\/strong>n in 1972, the Osa-AK has remained a crucial <strong>asset for many armies <\/strong>around the world, <strong>including the Indian Army.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In the West, the Osa is known by the <strong>NATO reporting name &#8220;SA-8 Gecko&#8221;.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>9K33 Osa-AK Missile System Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It has a length of about 9.1 m, a width of 2.78 m, and a weight of up to 18 tonnes.<\/li>\n<li>The Osa-AK\u2019s <strong>all-in-one vehicle setup,<\/strong> combining the transporter-erector-launcher and radar (TELAR), enables it to <strong>detect, track, and engage aerial threats independently.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The vehicle can carry up to five crew members and is fitted with a <strong>nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) protection system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is armed with 6 missiles ready to fire, mounted on the roof of the vehicle.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It can <strong>engage targets<\/strong> up to a maximum <strong>range of 12km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>highly mobile <\/strong>and can quickly respond to threats in a rapidly changing combat environment.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>fully amphibious, air transportable<\/strong>, and able to operate in a range of terrain conditions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>With a range of around 500 km on the road, it can swiftly relocate to different regions for strategic deployment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>9K33 Osa-AK Missile System FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What type of missile system is the 9K33 Osa-AK?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>.Short-range tactical surface-to-air defense system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the NATO reporting name for the 9K33 Osa-AK?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. SA-8 Gecko<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the maximum engagement range of the Osa-AK missile system?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. 12 km<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.republicworld.com\/defence\/indian-armed-forces\/indian-armys-white-tiger-division-proves-air-defence-readiness-with-osa-ak-missile-firing-exercise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9K33 Osa-AK Missile System is a Russian-built highly mobile, low-altitude, short-range tactical surface-to-air defence missile system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31662,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31661","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\/31661","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=31661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}