{"id":8632,"date":"2023-04-15T07:52:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-15T02:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8632"},"modified":"2025-03-29T04:10:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:40:52","slug":"what-is-df-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-df-27\/","title":{"rendered":"What is DF 27?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About DF 27:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>hypersonic ballistic missile developed by China.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Range: 5,000 to 8,000<\/strong> <strong>kilometers<\/strong> meaning that it can\u00a0 hit any target in the Asia-Pacific region.<\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>\u201chypersonic glide\u201d capability<\/strong> making it able to maneuver to escape missile defences.<\/li>\n<li>It is capable of carrying both <strong>nuclear and conventional warheads<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Did you know?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Hypersonic missiles <strong>travel at speeds of at least Mach 5 \u2014 five times the speed of sound<\/strong> \u2014 and <strong>can manoeuvre mid-flight<\/strong>, making them harder to track and intercept.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Ballistic Missile?<\/h3>\n<p>Ballistic missile is a rocket-propelled self-guided strategic-weapons system that follows a ballistic trajectory to deliver a payload from its launch site to a predetermined target. Ballistic missiles can carry conventional high explosives as well as chemical, biological, or nuclear munitions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/eurasiantimes.com\/china-tested-new-df-27-hypersonic-icbm-that-can-penetrate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>China Tested New DF-27 Hypersonic ICBM That Can Penetrate Mainland US Defense Systems \u2014 Leaked Info<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DF 27 is a hypersonic ballistic missile developed by China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8632","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\/8632","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=8632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}