{"id":69913,"date":"2025-10-24T13:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=69913"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T08:13:06","slug":"hyunmoo-5-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hyunmoo-5-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyunmoo-5 Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Hyunmoo-5 Missile Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Korea is ready to deploy its &#8216;monster missile&#8217; Hyunmoo 5 at the end of the year marking a significant conventional arsenal upgrade against its northern counterpart in the Korean peninsula. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Hyunmoo-5 Missile<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>ballistic missile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> developed by <\/span><b>South Korea.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is designed for <\/span><b>deep penetration strikes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with a massive <\/span><b>conventional warhead<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> capable of <\/span><b>destroying heavily fortified underground targets.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is part of South Korea\u2019s Korean Massive Punishment and Retaliation (KMPR) framework, which is designed to <\/span><b>deter North Korean aggression without the use of nuclear weapons.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was officially unveiled in October 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Hyunmoo-5 Missile <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been dubbed as the &#8220;<\/span><b>monster missile&#8221; for its size,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Hyunmoo 5 weighs around 36 tonnes.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can carry an <\/span><b>eight-tonne warhead.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>range <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is set to <\/span><b>vary from 600 km to more than 5,000 km,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> depending on payload.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its design features a <\/span><b>payload composed of heavy metals,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> optimized to destroy bunkers or command centers located at great depth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has the capability to <\/span><b>destroy fortified underground facilities buried over 100 meters deep.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its descending phase, the missile can reach speeds close to Mach 10.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is capable of being launched from a mobile platform. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Sourc<\/b><strong>e<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>:<\/strong> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/rest-of-world\/what-is-hyunmoo-5-monster-missile-ready-to-be-deployed-by-south-korea-boosts-military-deterrence-against-north-korea\/amp_articleshow\/124757141.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TOI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyunmoo-5 Missile is designed for deep penetration strikes with a massive conventional warhead capable of destroying heavily fortified underground targets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":69937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3376],"class_list":{"0":"post-69913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-hyunmoo-5-missile","9":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69913","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=69913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}