{"id":7115,"date":"2023-04-03T08:05:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T02:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7115"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:23:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T11:53:00","slug":"what-is-amogha-iii-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-amogha-iii-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Amogha-III Missile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Amogha-III Missile:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Amogha-III is an indigenous missile which has been developed under <strong>Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>fire-and-forget capability<\/strong> and does not require external intervention after the launch.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The missile also features <strong>dual-mode Imaging Infra-Red (IIR) Seeker<\/strong> systems with <strong>a range of 200 to 2500 meters<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It showcases a tandem warhead, consisting of <strong>two separate explosive charges<\/strong> that are detonated in sequence.\n<ul>\n<li>The first charge, known as the <strong>precursor charge<\/strong>, penetrates the target\u2019s armour, creating a hole for the second charge, the main charge, to <strong>detonate inside<\/strong>, maximizing damage inflicted on the target.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>One of the unique features of the missile is it has <strong>both top and direct attack mode.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Infrared radiation?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a region of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum where wavelengths range from about 700 nanometers (nm) to 1 millimeter (mm). Infrared waves are longer than those of visible light but shorter than those of radio waves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/business\/defence-indigenous-anti-tank-guided-missile-amogha-iii-tested-successfully-know-about-it-3027152\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Indigenous Anti Tank Guided Missile, Amogha-III tested successfully-Know about it<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amogha-III is an indigenous missile developed under Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7115","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\/7115","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=7115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}