{"id":88260,"date":"2026-02-17T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=88260"},"modified":"2026-02-17T16:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T11:04:40","slug":"khorramshahr-4-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/khorramshahr-4-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Khorramshahr-4 Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Khorramshahr-4 Missile Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Iran recently released dramatic footage of its Khorramshahr\u20114 ballistic missile \u2014 one of Tehran\u2019s most powerful medium\u2011range missiles \u2014 as tensions with the United States continue to rise.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Khorramshahr-4 Missile<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also known as the <\/span><b>Kheibar missile,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it is a<\/span><b> medium-range ballistic missile developed by Iranian s<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tate-owned defence company Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/iran\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Iran<\/strong><\/a> first test-fired the missile in January 2017 and first publicly displayed it at a September 2017 military parade in Tehran.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Khorramshahr-4 Missile <\/b><b>Features<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It stands 13 metres tall along with a 1.5-metre diameter weighing up to 20 tonnes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>liquid-fuelled <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and has an operational <\/span><b>range <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">of approximately <\/span><b>2,000 kilometers.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has the capability of carrying <\/span><b>multiple warheads<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of up to 1,800 kg.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is capable of striking 80 targets upon reaching the target area.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>launch preparation time<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is <\/span><b>less than 15 minutes.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The missile travels <\/span><b>16 times the speed of sound in the outer atmosphere<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and eight times within the atmosphere.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oneindia.com\/videos\/iran-breaking-irgc-flexes-khorramshahr4-missile-warns-to-blow-trump-s-bases-in-qatar-saudi-arabia-4288432.html#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ONE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Khorramshahr-4 Missile is a medium-range ballistic missile developed by Iranian state-owned defence company Aerospace Industries Organization (AIO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":88315,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5489,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-88260","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-khorramshahr-4-missile","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88260","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88260"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88357,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88260\/revisions\/88357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}