{"id":34068,"date":"2017-11-07T10:58:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T10:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=34068"},"modified":"2017-11-07T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T10:58:05","slug":"india-test-fires-nirbhay-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/india-test-fires-nirbhay-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"India test fires &#8216;Nirbhay&#8217; missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: India conducted a flight test of its indigenously designed and developed long range sub-sonic cruise missile &#8216;Nirbhay&#8217; on November 7th. This missile is capable to carry warheads of up to-<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) 300 kg<br \/>\n(b) 500kg<br \/>\n(c) 1000kg<br \/>\n(d) 1200kg<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (a)<br \/>\nRelated Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On November 7th, 2017, India conducted a flight test of its indigenously designed and developed long range sub-sonic cruise missile &#8216;Nirbhay&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>The flight test was done from the launch complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur along the Odisha coast.<\/li>\n<li>It can carry a warhead of 200 kg to 300 kg at a speed of 0.6 to 0.7 Mach.<\/li>\n<li>The missile has an operational range of 1000 km.<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Nirbhay&#8217; missile is guided by a highly advanced inertial navigation system indigenously developed by the Research Centre Imarat (RCI), the DRDO.<\/li>\n<li>This two-stage missile is 6 metre long, 0.52 metre wide with a wing span of 2.7 metre.<\/li>\n<li>Powered by a solid rocket motor booster developed by the Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL) and can travel with a turbofan or turbojet engine.<\/li>\n<li>It is noteworthy that this was the fifth experimental test of the homegrown missile system.<\/li>\n<li>The maiden test flight of &#8216;Nirbhay&#8217; held on March 12, 2013 had to be terminated midway for safety reasons due to malfunction of a component.<\/li>\n<li>However, its second launch on October 17, 2014 was successful.<\/li>\n<li>In the next trial conducted on October 16, 2015, the missile deviated from its path after covering 128 km.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/9214379_India-test-fires--Nirbhay--missile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/news\/9214379_India-test-fires&#8211;Nirbhay&#8211;missile.html<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ians\/nirbhay-missile-test-fired-off-odisha-coast-117110700604_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/news-ians\/nirbhay-missile-test-fired-off-odisha-coast-117110700604_1.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: India conducted a flight test of its indigenously designed and developed long range sub-sonic cruise missile &#8216;Nirbhay&#8217; on November 7th. This missile is capable to carry warheads of up to- (a) 300 kg (b) 500kg (c) 1000kg (d) 1200kg Answer: (a) Related Facts: On November 7th, 2017, India conducted a flight test of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":34069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1123],"tags":[3067],"class_list":["post-34068","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\/34068","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=34068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34068\/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\/34069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34068"}],"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=34068"},{"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=34068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}