{"id":25917,"date":"2017-05-16T09:23:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T09:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=25917"},"modified":"2017-05-16T09:23:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T09:23:41","slug":"spyder-surface-air-missile-test-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/spyder-surface-air-missile-test-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Spyder surface-to-air missile test fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: <\/strong><strong>India recently test fired a surface-to-air missile\u00a0\u2018Spyder\u2019. What does the word \u2018spyder\u2019 stand for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a)Surface-to-air PYthon and DERby<br \/>\n(b)Surface-to-air PAnther and DERby<br \/>\n(c)Surface-to-air PYthon and SPyder<br \/>\n(d)None of the above<br \/>\n<strong>Ans (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On May 11, 2017, India successfully test fired a surface-to-air missile \u2018Spyder\u2019 from a test range in Odisha as part of missile launch practice of a series of tests of the short-range quick reaction.<\/li>\n<li>Spyder was test fired from a mobile launcher at launch complex 3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur.<\/li>\n<li>It targeted a pilot-less target aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>Spyder (Surface-to-air PYthon and DERby) is an acquired missile system from Israel.<\/li>\n<li>It is a short-range, quick reaction surface-to-air missile.<\/li>\n<li>It can be used to neutralise enemy targets up to a distance of 15 km and at height between of 20-to-9,000 metres.<\/li>\n<li>However, it is shorter than India\u2019s indigenously developed surface-to-air \u2018Akash\u2019 missile, which has a 25 km strike range.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/spyder-surface-to-air-missile-test-fired\/1\/951712.html\">http:\/\/indiatoday.intoday.in\/story\/spyder-surface-to-air-missile-test-fired\/1\/951712.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/spyder-surface-to-air-missile-test-fired\/story-vQYdhN692MsDKZ3JsDMPXI.html\">http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/spyder-surface-to-air-missile-test-fired\/story-vQYdhN692MsDKZ3JsDMPXI.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/india-news\/india-test-fires-spyder-surface-to-air-missile-from-odisha-test-range\/664547\/\">http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/india-news\/india-test-fires-spyder-surface-to-air-missile-from-odisha-test-range\/664547\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: India recently test fired a surface-to-air missile\u00a0\u2018Spyder\u2019. What does the word \u2018spyder\u2019 stand for? (a)Surface-to-air PYthon and DERby (b)Surface-to-air PAnther and DERby (c)Surface-to-air PYthon and SPyder (d)None of the above Ans (a) Related facts: On May 11, 2017, India successfully test fired a surface-to-air missile \u2018Spyder\u2019 from a test range in Odisha as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-25917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn","tag-defensescience-short-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25917","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25917"}],"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=25917"},{"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=25917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}