{"id":7099,"date":"2023-04-03T03:56:13","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T22:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7099"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:46:29","slug":"what-is-the-poseidon-torpedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-the-poseidon-torpedo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Poseidon Torpedo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>About Poseidon Torpedo:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a massive <strong>Russian, nuclear-powered autonomous torpedo<\/strong> armed with a <strong>nuclear warhead<\/strong> built to strike enemy coastal targets from great distances.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>It is about <strong>65 feet long<\/strong> and <strong>6.5 feet wide<\/strong>, making it the <strong>largest torpedo<\/strong> ever deployed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed<\/strong>: It can also reach speeds of up to <strong>70 knots, or 80 miles per hour<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is reportedly equipped with a <strong>2-megaton thermonuclear warhead<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range<\/strong>: The use of nuclear power gives it nearly <strong>unlimited range.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is unreachable due to its working <strong>depth\u2014possibly 1,000 meters (3,300 feet).<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a torpedo?<\/h3>\n<p>A torpedo is a type of missile or bomb fired underwater. Torpedoes are cigar-shaped projectiles that are used to attack other submarines or boats. The word torpedo comes from the name of a kind of electric ray that numbs you with its sting (torpediniformes). Torpedoes can also be used to attack a target on land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/theprint.in\/world\/russia-to-form-special-division-of-poseidon-torpedo-carriers-tass-reports\/1492387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Russia to form special division of Poseidon torpedo carriers, TASS reports<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poseidon is a massive Russian, nuclear-powered autonomous torpedo armed with a nuclear warhead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7099","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\/7099","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=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}