{"id":95075,"date":"2026-03-27T15:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=95075"},"modified":"2026-03-27T15:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:03:48","slug":"qader-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/qader-cruise-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Qader Cruise Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Qader Cruise Missile Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, Iran \u00a0fired Qader cruise missiles at the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Qader cruise Missile<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>medium-range shore-based anti-ship cruise missile<\/b> <b>developed by Iran<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and deployed by its naval forces.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is used by naval <\/span><b>forces to target ships.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is an <\/span><b>upgraded version of the Noor missile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which is based on Chinese missile design.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Range:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The missile has a reported range between <\/span><b>120 and 300 kilometres.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is designed for sea targets such as warships and tankers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It carries a warhead of about <\/span><b>200 kilograms of high explosive.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b>Working<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It uses a <\/span><b>turbojet engine.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>flies at low altitude over the sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This is called sea-skimming.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This flight path helps the missile avoid radar detection.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flies only a few metres above the sea surface. This reduces the reaction time for defence systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>What are Cruise Missiles?<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A cruise <\/span><b>missile is a guided missile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that flies at low altitudes, often following the contours of the terrain to avoid radar detection.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Features<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It flies at low altitude, powered by <\/span><b>jet engines, can maneuver around obstacles<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Guidance System: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GPS, terrain contour matching, inertial navigation<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Speed: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subsonic to supersonic (Mach 0.8-3);<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Range <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Short to medium (50-2,500 km)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Launch Platforms:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Air, sea, and land platforms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><b>Examples:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> BrahMos, Nirbhay, Tomahawk<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/us\/what-is-qader-cruise-missile-how-does-it-work-and-can-it-hit-uss-abraham-lincoln-aircraft-carrier-heres-complete-truth\/articleshow\/129802860.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qader cruise missile is an Iran-made anti-ship missile with 120 to 300 km range, sea-skimming capability, and high-explosive warhead, designed to evade radar and strike naval targets effectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":95144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,6409,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-95075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-qader-cruise-missile","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95075","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95192,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95075\/revisions\/95192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}