{"id":9667,"date":"2022-10-15T06:35:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T01:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:43:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:13:25","slug":"kamikaze-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kamikaze-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Kamikaze drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kamikaze drones:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are small unmanned aircraft packed with explosives that can be flown directly at a tank or a group of troops that are destroyed when it hits the target and explodes.<\/li>\n<li>The name comes from the World War 2 era\u2019s feared Japanese kamikaze pilots, who conducted suicide attacks by intentionally crashing their explosive filled aircraft into enemy targets.<\/li>\n<li>The modern drone versions have the capability of surpassing traditional defences to strike their targets and are also cheaper than their larger counterparts.<\/li>\n<li>The small lethal drones are difficult to detect on radar, and through the use of facial recognition, can be programmed to hit targets without human intervention.<\/li>\n<li>Although the US Kamikaze might be the most advanced in this class of drones, Russia, China, Israel, Iran and Turkey all have some versions of it.<\/li>\n<li>The US kamikaze drones are cheaper than most other drones made in the country, and come in two sizes.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Switchblade 300 suicide drone:\u00a0<\/strong>It weighs about five pounds (2.26 kilograms), can fly for up to 15 minutes at a time, and is designed to be carried in a backpack.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Switchblade 600:<\/strong>\u00a0It weighs about 50 pounds, can fly for up to 40 minutes, and is known as a \u201cloitering missile\u201d that can hover around an area for some time and target armoured vehicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/everyday-explainers\/kamikaze-drones-russia-ukraine-war-explained-8209717\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kamikaze Drones are small unmanned aircraft packed with explosives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9667","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\/9667","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=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}