{"id":3990,"date":"2023-03-10T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T07:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3990"},"modified":"2025-03-26T20:58:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T15:28:25","slug":"palm-400-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/palm-400-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"PALM 400 Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About PALM 400 Drones:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The PALM 400 &#8211; acronym for <strong>&#8216;Precision Attack Loitering Munition<\/strong>&#8216; is a <strong>long-range, high-precision loitering munition system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the result of a <strong>joint venture<\/strong> between <strong>AVision Systems (Israel<\/strong>), <strong>UVision Air Ltd<\/strong>, and <strong>Aditya Precitech Private Ltd (APPL<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>It is built to fly over <strong>areas where armored vehicles are concentrated<\/strong> or are anticipated.<\/li>\n<li>Each PALM 400 selects its targets when armored vehicles enter the kill zone and <strong>launch an armor-piercing projectile<\/strong>, <strong>penetrating it<\/strong> from the top where there is least protection.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features of PALM 400 Drones<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It can be <strong>discharged from a canister<\/strong> and <strong>fly 3000-4000 feet above a kill zone<\/strong> for <strong>up to 120 minutes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>range <\/strong>of more than <strong>100 km<\/strong> and travels at a <strong>speed of 50 to 140 knots<\/strong> (<strong>90 to 260 km\/h<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>It uses <strong>electro-optical\/infrared stabilized cameras<\/strong> <strong>to detect<\/strong> and engage targets both <strong>during the day and at night.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It uses <strong>complex navigational techniques<\/strong> that enable it to function even in environments where the GPS has been disabled.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>can loiter above a target in stealth mode<\/strong>, collect information, and immediately strike at time-sensitive threats.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0What is a loitering munition?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Loitering munitions are autonomous missiles that can stay airborne for some time, identify a target, and then attack. They were first developed as a specialized weapon to target anti-aircraft systems in the 1980s and now exist as an alternative to everything from airstrikes to mortar rounds or grenade tosses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/defence\/indian-armys-new-attack-system-palm-400-to-be-a-game-changer\/3003961\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indian army\u2019s new attack system PALM 400 to be a game changer<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALM 400 Drone is a long-range, high-precision loitering munition system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3990","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\/3990","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=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}