{"id":8166,"date":"2023-04-10T06:06:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T00:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8166"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:55:01","slug":"what-is-meraj-532","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-meraj-532\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Meraj-532?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Meraj-532:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>kamikaze drone<\/strong> equipped with a <strong>piston engine.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>range of 450 km.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is capable of flying at a maximum <strong>altitude of 12,000 feet<\/strong> <strong>for three straight hours.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>50-kg warhead<\/strong> and can be assembled and prepared for flight easily, making it suitable for rapid reaction operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a Kamikaze Drone?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A kamikaze drone, also called a <strong>suicide drone <\/strong>or, more formally<strong>, a loitering munition<\/strong>, is an unmanned aerial vehicle that is <strong>designed to self-destruct after serving its purpose.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They can <strong>hover around the target area for some time<\/strong> (much longer than a cruise missile) <strong>and attack only once a target is located<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It may <strong>also feature a built-in warhead or payload<\/strong>, which is intended to detonate during the engagement.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle?<\/h3>\n<p>An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is a type of aircraft that operates without a human pilot onboard. Recent technologies have allowed for the development of many different kinds of advanced unmanned aerial vehicles used for various purposes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeebiz.com\/world\/news-irans-successfully-tests-kamikaze-drone-equipped-with-50-kg-warhead-official-229912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Iran&#8217;s &#8216;successfully&#8217; tests kamikaze drone equipped with 50-kg warhead: Official<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meraj-532  is a kamikaze drone equipped with a piston engine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8166","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\/8166","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=8166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}