{"id":7231,"date":"2022-11-03T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T05:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7231"},"modified":"2025-03-28T18:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T13:29:55","slug":"ballistic-missile-defence-bmd-interceptor-ad-1-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ballistic-missile-defence-bmd-interceptor-ad-1-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor AD-1 missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) interceptor AD-1 missile:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The AD-1 is a long-range interceptor missile designed for both low exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric interception of long-range ballistic missiles as well as aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>It is propelled by a two-stage solid motor and equipped with indigenously-developed advanced control system, navigation and guidance algorithm to precisely guide the vehicle to the target that move at very high speeds.<\/li>\n<li>The fully functional ballistic missile defence system contained high-power radars and could potentially protect large areas from the adversary missile or other air attacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Anti-ballistic missiles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The development of anti-ballistic missiles is said to have started by the DRDO around the 2000s in view of the development of ballistic assets by Pakistan and China.<\/li>\n<li>The phase-1 of the programme is said to have been completed towards the end of 2010s and consisted of the advanced air defence systems and air defence systems based on the Prithvi missile.<\/li>\n<li>The second phase, according to sources, focuses on the development of anti-ballistic defence systems like the US\u2019s Theatre High-Altitude Area Defence system, which can neutralise intermediate-range ballistic missiles.<\/li>\n<li>The AD-II, which is capable of neutralising missiles of even higher ranges, is also said to be under development.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/ballistic-missile-test-8245478\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AD-1 is a long-range interceptor missile designed for both low exo-atmospheric interception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7231","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\/7231","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=7231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}