{"id":123565,"date":"2021-09-30T08:29:38","date_gmt":"2021-09-30T08:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=123565"},"modified":"2021-09-30T08:36:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T08:36:18","slug":"raytheon-hypersonic-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/raytheon-hypersonic-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Raytheon Hypersonic Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question: Which of the following country recently tested the Raytheon hypersonic weapon, in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)?<br><\/strong>a) USA<br>b) Russia<br>c) China<br>d) India<br><strong>Answer: (a)<br>Related facts:-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>On 27 September US defence department the Pentagon announced that the United States has successfully tested a Raytheon hypersonic weapon.<\/li><li>It is an air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable of speeds faster than five times the speed of sound.<\/li><li>The mission was completed by the US Air Force, in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).<\/li><li>It was the first successful test of this type of cruise missile since 2013 by the United States of America.<\/li><li>The free flight test of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) took place around 20th September 2021.<\/li><li>It has been demonstrated that the weapon is highly effective and it has strong capabilities to hit and destroy the set target.<\/li><li>The mission aimed to test, among other aspects, safe separation from the launch aircraft, booster ignition and engine ignition.<\/li><li>According to a DARPA press release, all primary test objectives were met.<\/li><li>Built by Raytheon Technologies, the HAWC missile\u2019s engine propelled the cruiser at a speed greater than Mach 5 \u2013 five times the speed of sound.<\/li><li>HAWC vehicle operates best in oxygen-rich atmosphere, where speed and maneuverability make it difficult to detect in a timely way.<\/li><li>It could strike targets much more quickly than subsonic missiles and has significant kinetic energy even without high explosives.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:-<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/raytheon-hypersonic-weapon-pentagon-test-b1928004.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/raytheon-hypersonic-weapon-pentagon-test-b1928004.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Which of the following country recently tested the Raytheon hypersonic weapon, in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)?a) USAb) Russiac) Chinad) IndiaAnswer: (a)Related facts:- On 27 September US defence department the Pentagon announced that the United States has successfully tested a Raytheon hypersonic weapon. It is an air-breathing hypersonic weapon capable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":123566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-123565","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\/123565","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=123565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123572,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123565\/revisions\/123572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123565"}],"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=123565"},{"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=123565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}