{"id":66609,"date":"2025-11-02T12:45:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T07:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=66609"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:27:08","slug":"dhvani-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/dhvani-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Dhvani Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Dhvani Missile Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">India&#8217;s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) is on the verge of a historic breakthrough with the upcoming test of Dhvani, a cutting-edge hypersonic missile that promises to catapult the nation into an elite club of military superpowers.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Dhvani Missile<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an\u00a0 <\/span><b>hypersonic missile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> being developed by <\/span><b>India\u2019s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dhvani is being <\/span><b>developed as a Hypersonic Glide Vehicle (HGV),<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a revolutionary weapon system that combines<\/span><b> blistering speed with unprecedented maneuverability.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike conventional cruise missiles that follow predictable flight paths, the Dhvani will be <\/span><b>launched to extreme altitudes before gliding toward its target at hypersonic speeds<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This unique capability <\/span><b>makes it nearly impossible to detect <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and even harder to intercept, rendering most existing missile defense systems obsolete.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will be capable of <\/span><b>striking both land-based and maritime targets with pinpoint precision.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can fly at <\/span><b>speeds exceeding Mach 5 or 6,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> nearly 7,400 km per hour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <\/span><b>estimated ranges<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between <\/span><b>6,000 to 10,000 kilometers.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What sets Dhvani apart is its <\/span><b>sophisticated design.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile features a<\/span><b> blended wing-body configuration<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> measuring approximately 9 meters in length and 2.5 meters in width.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>advanced heat protection system,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> utilizing ultra-high-temperature ceramic composites, can withstand temperatures between 2,000-3,000\u00b0C generated during atmospheric reentry. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> stealth-optimized geometry,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> including angled surfaces and smooth contours, dramatically reduces its radar cross-section, making it <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">virtually invisible to enemy tracking systems.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/opinions\/dhvani-the-indian-hypersonic-beast-that-pakistan-can-t-stop-and-china-can-t-ignore-1759553143527\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>WION<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhvani Missile is an  hypersonic missile being developed by India\u2019s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":66907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3072,246,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-66609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-dhvani-missile","9":"tag-prelims-current-affairs","10":"tag-prelims-pointers","11":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","12":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","13":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66609","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}