{"id":41374,"date":"2018-02-24T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T07:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=41374"},"modified":"2018-02-24T07:48:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T07:48:53","slug":"night-trial-prithvi-ii-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/night-trial-prithvi-ii-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Trial of Prithvi-II Missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question-<\/strong> On February 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2018, India successfully conducted a night trial of Prithvi-II missile from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur in Balasore district of Odisha. It is a-<br \/>\n(a) Surface to Air<br \/>\n(b) Air to Surface<br \/>\n(c) Surface to Surface<br \/>\n(d) Air to Air<br \/>\n<strong>Answer: (c)\u00a0<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nRelated facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On February 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2018, India successfully conducted a night trial of the indigenously built nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile from Chandipur in Balasore district of Odisha.<\/li>\n<li>Prithvi- II missile was launched by a mobile launcher from the launch site.<\/li>\n<li>This test of\u00a0Prithvi- II was done by the Army&#8217;s Strategic Force Command (SFC) under regular user testing.<\/li>\n<li>It is noteworthy that Prithvi-II is a surface-to-surface missile and its ranging capacity is 350 km is.<\/li>\n<li>It was developed under Defense Guided Missile Development Program by the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO).<\/li>\n<li>Its length is about 9 meters and it is a single step fluid propellant-powered missile.<\/li>\n<li>This is capable of carrying the warhead of 500 to 1000 kg.<\/li>\n<li>Army&#8217;s Strategic Force Command had deployed Prithvi-II in 2003.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier, it was successfully tested on February 7<sup>t<\/sup>, 2018.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/india-test-fires-prithvi-ii-off-odisha-coast-1815595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/india-test-fires-prithvi-ii-off-odisha-coast-1815595<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/india-successfully-conducts-night-trial-of-prithvi-ii-missile\/articleshow\/63019250.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/defence\/india-successfully-conducts-night-trial-of-prithvi-ii-missile\/articleshow\/63019250.cms<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- On February 21st, 2018, India successfully conducted a night trial of Prithvi-II missile from the Integrated Test Range, Chandipur in Balasore district of Odisha. It is a- (a) Surface to Air (b) Air to Surface (c) Surface to Surface (d) Air to Air Answer: (c)\u00a0 Related facts: On February 21st, 2018, India successfully conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[2377],"class_list":["post-41374","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\/41374","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=41374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41374\/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\/41366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41374"}],"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=41374"},{"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=41374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}