{"id":4968,"date":"2023-01-11T03:35:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T22:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4968"},"modified":"2025-03-27T03:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T22:00:12","slug":"what-is-the-prithvi-ii-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-prithvi-ii-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Prithvi-II Missile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>\u00a0<strong>About<\/strong> <strong>Prithvi-II Missile:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>surface-to-surface<\/strong>, nuclear-capable short-range ballistic missile.<\/li>\n<li>It has a carrying 500-1,000 kilograms of warheads and is powered by <strong>liquid propulsion<\/strong> twin engines.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range:<\/strong> It has a strike range of <strong>350 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The missile is a proven system and is capable of striking targets with a very high degree of precision.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The state-of-the-art missile uses an advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvering trajectory to hit its target.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>inducted<\/strong> into the Indian armed forces in <strong>2003.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was one of the first missiles developed under the Government of India&#8217;s IGMDP.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is IGMDP ?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) was started in 1983 and completed in March 2012. IGMDP was sanctioned to develop Prithvi, Trishul, Akash, Nag and a Technology Demonstrator Agni Missile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.gov.in\/News?title=DRDO-carries-out-successful-test-launch-of-short-range-ballistic-missile-Prithvi-II-off-Odisha-coast&amp;id=453831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DRDO carries out successful test launch of short-range ballistic missile Prithvi II off Odisha coast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prithvi-II is a surface-to-surface, nuclear-capable short-range ballistic missile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4968","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\/4968","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=4968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}