{"id":104584,"date":"2020-11-25T11:57:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=104584"},"modified":"2020-11-26T11:13:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T11:13:55","slug":"varunastra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/varunastra\/","title":{"rendered":"Varunastra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Varunastra which was recently in news is a-<\/strong><br>a) Anti Submarine Torpedo<br>b) Surface to air missile<br>c) Air to surface missile<br>d) Anti- tank missile<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 21 November 2020; anti submarine torpedo Varunastra was delivered to the Indian Navy.<\/li><li>G. Satheesh Reddy, Secretary, Department of Defence R&amp;D and Chairman, DRDO flagged off the first Varunastra, at a ceremony held at BDL, Visakhapatnam Unit.<\/li><li>This is a heavy weight torpedo that has been designed and developed by Naval Science &amp; Technological Laboratory (NSTL), Visakhapatnam.<\/li><li>Bharat dynamics Limited BDL being the production agency, is manufacturing Varunastra at its Visakhapatnam Unit for the Indian Navy.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Specialties associated with Varunastra:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is powered by electric propulsion system with multiple 250 kw silver oxide Zinc (AgOZn) batteries.<\/li><li>It is capable of being launched both from Ships and Submarines.<\/li><li>It weighs near about 1.25 tons and can carry upto 250 kg of conventional warhead.<\/li><li>Varunastra is capable of achieving the speed of 40 Knots( 74 kms\/hr)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Rajesh Tripathi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/drdo-flags-off-first-varunastra-a-heavy-weight-torpedo\/article33150441.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/news\/drdo-flags-off-first-varunastra-a-heavy-weight-torpedo\/article33150441.ece<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.naval-technology.com\/news\/drdo-flags-off-first-varunastra-hwt-production-unit-for-indian-navy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.naval-technology.com\/news\/drdo-flags-off-first-varunastra-hwt-production-unit-for-indian-navy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Varunastra which was recently in news is a-a) Anti Submarine Torpedob) Surface to air missilec) Air to surface missiled) Anti- tank missileAnswer: (a)Related Facts: On 21 November 2020; anti submarine torpedo Varunastra was delivered to the Indian Navy. G. Satheesh Reddy, Secretary, Department of Defence R&amp;D and Chairman, DRDO flagged off the first Varunastra, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":104585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-104584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-snes","tag-scientific"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104618,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104584\/revisions\/104618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}