{"id":8744,"date":"2025-03-03T09:53:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T04:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8744"},"modified":"2025-03-29T08:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T03:21:18","slug":"harpoon-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/harpoon-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpoon Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Harpoon Missile Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The U.S. Air Force is exploring the use of the Harpoon anti-ship missile on its F-16s, signaling a potential shift in its approach to naval warfare.<\/p>\n<h2>About Harpoon Missile<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Harpoon (RGM-84\/UGM-84\/AGM-84) is a <strong>subsonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by Boeing for the U.S.<\/strong> Navy.<\/li>\n<li>It was first introduced in 1977.<\/li>\n<li>It is currently<strong> in service with <\/strong>the armed forces of more than 3<strong>0 countries, including India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Harpoon Missile Features<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>all-weather,<\/strong> over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile system.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>A single missile measures 4.5 m in length and weighs 526 kg.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Propulsion: Turbojet, solid propellant.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Range: 90-240 km<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It can be <strong>launched from ship<\/strong>s, submarines, s<strong>hore batteries, and aircraft.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is capable of executing both <strong>land-strike and anti-ship missions.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The missile can fly at speeds of up to Mach 0.85 (647 mph or 1,041 km\/h) and carry a 221 kg blast warhead.<\/li>\n<li>It incorporates <strong>GPS-assisted inertial navigation<\/strong>, which enables the system to have both an anti-ship and a land attack capability.<\/li>\n<li>It uses mid-course guidance and an <strong>active radar seeker <\/strong>to track and hit surface targets.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Its active radar guidance, low-level, sea-skimming cruise trajectory, terminal mode sea-skim or pop-up maneuvers, and warhead design assure high survivability and effectiveness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Harpoon Missile FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which country made Harpoon missile?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. United States<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Does India have a Harpoon missile?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Yes, India does have a harpoon missiles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is a Harpoon missile used for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is capable of executing both land-strike and anti-ship missions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/military\/us-air-force-f16-harpoon-missile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">INE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harpoon Missile is a subsonic anti-ship cruise missile developed by Boeing for the U.S. Navy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8744","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\/8744","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=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}