{"id":56892,"date":"2025-07-26T14:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T09:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=56892"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:34:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:04:55","slug":"unmanned-aerial-vehicle-launched-precision-guided-missile-v3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/unmanned-aerial-vehicle-launched-precision-guided-missile-v3\/","title":{"rendered":"Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile-V3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile-V3 Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Defence Research &amp; Development Organisation (DRDO) has successfully carried out flight-trials of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile (ULPGM)-V3 at the National Open Area Range (NOAR) test range in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile-V3<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>precision-guided air-to-surface missile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> launched from drones and designed to strike targets with <\/span><b>high accuracy<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while reducing risk to personnel.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Developed by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile is <\/span><b>jointly developed by DRDO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in collaboration with Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), Adani, and multiple MSMEs and start-ups under the Make in India initiative<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Features of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile-V3<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ULPGM-V3 is equipped with a high definition <\/span><b>dual-channel seeker<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that can strike a wide variety of targets.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can <\/span><b>be fired in plain and high-altitude areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It has <\/span><b>day-and-night capability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and two-way data link to support post-launch target\/aim-point update.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile is equipped with <\/span><b>three modular warhead options<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><b>Anti-armour to destroy modern age armoured vehicles <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">equipped with Rolled Homogeneous Armour (RHA) with Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA); Penetration-cum-Blast warhead with Anti Bunker application and Pre-fragmentation warhead with a high lethality zone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are <\/span><b>three known ULPGM variants:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ULPGM V1 (baseline), ULPGM V2 (production variant, also known as ULPGM), and <\/span><b>ULPGM V3<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (extended-range variant, also referred to as ULM-ER).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ULPGM-V3 can be carried and operated by individual soldiers in remote and mountainous regions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The drone-launched missile also comes with a tandem warhead to defeat tanks equipped with <\/span><b>explosive reactive armor (ERA).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Range: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can achieve a <\/span><b>maximum range of 4 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> during the day and 2.5 km at night.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Weight:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12.5 kg which enables integration with lightweight drones.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2148320\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PIB<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Launched Precision Guided Missile-V3 is a precision-guided air-to-surface missile launched from drones and designed to strike targets with high accuracy while reducing risk to personnel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":56871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,1820,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-56892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-unmanned-aerial-vehicle-launched-precision-guided-missile-v3","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56892","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}