{"id":6849,"date":"2023-03-30T10:07:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T04:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6849"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:22:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:52:18","slug":"moskit-cruise-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/moskit-cruise-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Moskit Cruise Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Moskit Cruise Missiles:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>supersonic anti-ship cruise missile<\/strong> that has conventional and nuclear warhead capacity<\/li>\n<li>It has the fastest flying speed among all anti-ship missiles in today&#8217;s world.<\/li>\n<li>It reaches Mach 3 at a high altitude and its maximum low-altitude speed is M2.2.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of destroying a ship within a range of up to 120 kilometres.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are cruise missiles?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A cruise missile either <strong>locates its target or has a preset target<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It navigates using a guidance system such as inertial or beyond visual range satellite GPS guidance and comprises a payload and aircraft propulsion system.<\/li>\n<li>Cruise missiles <strong>can be launched from land, sea or air <\/strong>for land attacks and anti-shipping purposes, and can travel at subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic speeds.<\/li>\n<li>They stay relatively <strong>close to the surface of the earth<\/strong>, cannot be detected easily by anti-missile systems, and are designed to carry large payloads with high precision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are Ballistic Missiles?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ballistic Missiles are launched <strong>directly into the upper layers of the earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They travel outside the atmosphere, where the warhead detaches from the missile and falls towards a predetermined target.<\/li>\n<li>They are rocket-propelled self-guided weapons systems which can carry conventional or nuclear munitions. They can be launched from aircraft, ships and submarines, and land.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Global Positioning System?<\/h3>\n<p>The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a U.S.-owned utility that provides users with positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/russia-says-it-has-test-fired-missiles-in-the-sea-of-japan\/article66670350.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Russia says it has test-fired missiles in the Sea of Japan<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moskit is a supersonic anti-ship cruise missile with conventional and nuclear warhead capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6849","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\/6849","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=6849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}