{"id":31983,"date":"2025-04-13T09:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T04:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31983"},"modified":"2025-04-16T18:18:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:48:24","slug":"bullet-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bullet-curtain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullet Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bullet Curtain Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>China\u2019s state-run defence firm Norinco recently said that it has developed the world\u2019s first close-in anti-drone barrage weapon, dubbed the Bullet Curtain.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bullet Curtain<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>world\u2019s first close-in anti-drone barrage weapon.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>capable of countering <\/strong>a broad range of low-flying aerial threats including rockets, helicopters, missiles, and most notably,<strong> drone swarms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has been made by<strong> China&#8217;s state-run defence firm Norinco.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The system was i<strong>nspired by Metal Storm<\/strong>, which is arapid-fire weapon concept jointly <strong>developed by Australia and the United States<\/strong> in the late 1990s.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breaking from convention:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Conventional anti-air systems<\/strong> typically rely on <strong>\u201cpoint-to-point\u201d interception,<\/strong> aiming directly at incoming threats.<\/li>\n<li>By allowing <strong>multiple guns to fire together,<\/strong> the <strong>Bullet Curtain<\/strong> system <strong>creates a plane of fire <\/strong>that increases the probability of intercepting fast, unpredictable targets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bullet Curtain Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The system uses a <strong>\u201cplane-to-point\u201d interception model,<\/strong> which forms a <strong>wall of projectiles to blanket incoming targets<\/strong> with overlapping firepower.<\/li>\n<li>The system reportedly uses a <strong>4&#215;4 tight arrangement of 35mm gun barrels<\/strong> for various types of ammunition to deliver a <strong>high rate of fire<\/strong> while maintaining quick reload capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>It<strong> fires 35mm <\/strong>advanced hit efficiency and destruction <strong>(AHEAD) ammunition<\/strong> that <strong>spits hundreds of sub-projectiles each <\/strong>to form a barrage against drones.<\/li>\n<li>The system reportedly <strong>integrates radar<\/strong>, an <strong>optical detection system, a fire-control system<\/strong>, an integrated management system, and ammunition with the platform.<\/li>\n<li>The system has been<strong> fitted on a 6&#215;6 truck <\/strong>and configured as a<strong> road-mobile <\/strong>air-defence cover embedded in mechanised units.<\/li>\n<li>Its <strong>modular design <\/strong>means it can also be <strong>integrated with various platforms, <\/strong>including wheeled and tracked armoured vehicles, naval ships, and fixed installations, allowing rapid deployment across different combat scenarios while staying compatible with existing military infrastructure.<\/li>\n<li>A computer-based system adjusts the volume and type of fire depending on the target\u2019s nature, allowing dynamic threat engagement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Bullet Curtain FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the primary function of the Bullet Curtain system?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Close-in anti-drone and aerial threat defense<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Which country developed the Bullet Curtain system?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. China<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What type of interception model does the Bullet Curtain use?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Plane-to-point<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/news-brief\/china-unveils-worlds-first-anti-drone-barrage-weapon-capable-of-countering-swarms-and-missiles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SWAR<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullet Curtain is the world\u2019s first close-in anti-drone barrage weapon, designed to intercept and destroy drones with a high-speed wall of projectiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31983","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\/31983","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=31983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}