{"id":9092,"date":"2024-11-13T03:17:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9092"},"modified":"2025-10-14T11:49:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T06:19:03","slug":"hawk-air-defense-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hawk-air-defense-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"HAWK Air Defense Equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About HAWK Missile:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The HAWK (<strong>Homing All the Way Killer<\/strong>) MIM-23 is an all-weather <strong>low-to medium-altitude ground-to-air missile system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was developed and designed by the <strong>American Defence Company, Raytheon.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was initially designed to destroy aircraft and was later adapted to destroy other missiles in flight.<\/li>\n<li>The missile entered service in 1960, and a program of extensive upgrades has kept it from becoming obsolete.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>superseded by the MIM-104 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/patriot-air-defence-missile-system\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Patriot<\/strong><\/a> in United States Army service by 1994.<\/li>\n<li>It was finally <strong>phased out of US service in 2002<\/strong>, with the last users, the US Marine Corps, replacing it with the man-portable IR-guided visual range FIM-92 Stinger.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The HAWK missile system has been <strong>widely exported<\/strong> and is <strong>still used by<\/strong> various countries globally, including <strong>NATO allies<\/strong> and <strong>countries in Asia and the Middle East.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It employs a <strong>Semi-Active-Radar-Homing (SARH) guidance system<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The Hawk missile is <strong>transported and launched from<\/strong> the <strong>M192 towed triple-missile launcher<\/strong> and is propelled by a <strong>dual-thrust motor<\/strong>, with a boost phase and a sustain phase.<\/li>\n<li>The HAWK can <strong>engage multiple targets simultaneously<\/strong> and is effective in a variety of weather conditions.<\/li>\n<li>However, it is generally considered outdated compared to more modern systems like the Patriot missile defense system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is NATO?<\/h3>\n<p>Formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a security alliance of 32 countries from North America and Europe. NATO\u2019s fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies\u2019 freedom and security by political and military means. It is a system of collective defence where independent member states agree for mutual defence in case of any attack by an external party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/us-news\/up-to-us-to-decide-what-to-do-with-decommissioned-hawk-missiles-taiwan-says-101731464321680.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Up to US to decide what to do with decommissioned HAWK missiles, Taiwan says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HAWK (Homing All the Way Killer) MIM-23 is an all-weather low-to medium-altitude ground-to-air missile system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9092","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\/9092","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=9092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}