{"id":34984,"date":"2017-11-22T11:03:52","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=34984"},"modified":"2017-11-22T12:24:27","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T12:24:27","slug":"successfull-flight-test-brahmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/successfull-flight-test-brahmos\/","title":{"rendered":"Successfull flight-test of Brahmos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: On\u00a0November 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2017, a history is created after successfull flight test of world\u2019s fastest supersonic cruise missile-Brahmos (Brahmos-Air\u00a0Launched\u00a0Cruise\u00a0Missile). This successful flight test was done by which of the following fighter aircraft of IAF?<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) SUKHOI-30MKI<br \/>\n(b)MIG-21<br \/>\n(c)MIRAGE-2000<br \/>\n(d) MIG 27<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (a)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Related Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">On\u00a0November 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2017, a history is created after successful flight-test of world\u2019s fastest supersonic cruise missile Brahmos-Air\u00a0Launched\u00a0Cruise\u00a0Missile.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">For the first time this successful flight test was done by from the Indian Air Force\u2019s (IAF) frontline fighter aircraft\u00a0Sukhoi-30MKIagainst a sea based target in the Bay of Bengal.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">This successful maiden test firing of Brahmos\u00a0Air\u00a0Launched\u00a0Cruise\u00a0Missile (ALCM) from Su-30MKI will significantly bolster the IAF\u2019s air combat operations capability from stand-off ranges.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is noteworthy that Brahmos is a two stage missile with a solid propellant booster engine.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">The missile has a flight range of up to 290-km with supersonic speed all through the flight, leading to the shorter flight time.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It operates on \u2018Fire and Forget\u2019 principle, adopting varieties of flight on its way to the target.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">It carries a conventional warhead weighing of 200 to 300 kgs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0Reference: \u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173720\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/pib.nic.in\/newsite\/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=173720 <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brahmos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.brahmos.com\/ <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: On\u00a0November 22nd, 2017, a history is created after successfull flight test of world\u2019s fastest supersonic cruise missile-Brahmos (Brahmos-Air\u00a0Launched\u00a0Cruise\u00a0Missile). This successful flight test was done by which of the following fighter aircraft of IAF? (a) SUKHOI-30MKI (b)MIG-21 (c)MIRAGE-2000 (d) MIG 27 Answer: (a) Related Facts: On\u00a0November 22nd, 2017, a history is created after successful flight-test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-34984","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\/34984","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=34984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34984\/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\/34986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34984"}],"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=34984"},{"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=34984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}