{"id":8662,"date":"2016-02-08T07:06:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T07:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=8662"},"modified":"2016-02-08T07:06:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T07:06:22","slug":"akash-missile-successfully-tested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/akash-missile-successfully-tested\/","title":{"rendered":"Akash missile successfully tested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ques: India on 28 January 2016 test fired its indigenously-developed surface-to-air Akash missile having strike range of-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(a) 25 kilometers<br \/>\n(b) 250 kilometers<br \/>\n(c) 750 Kilometers<br \/>\n(d) 9 kilometers<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Ans (a)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Related facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>India on 28 January 2016 test fired its indigenously-developed surface-to-air Akash missileas part of a user trial from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur.<\/li>\n<li>Three rounds of test were carried out by Indian air Force (IAF) personnel aiming at para-barrel targets.<\/li>\n<li>Akash missile is powered by Ramjet-rocket propulsion system which renders thrust for the missile to intercept the target at supersonic speed without any retardation.<\/li>\n<li>The missiles, with a strike range of 25 km and capability to carry warhead of 60 kg.<\/li>\n<li>This is developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) as part of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme.<\/li>\n<li>It can fly at supersonic speed ranging from Mach 2.8 to 3.5 and can engage aerial targets up to a range of approximately 25 km.<\/li>\n<li>Compared with the American MIM-104 Patriot, the surface-to-air missile system, Akash has the capability to neutralise aerial targets like fighter jets, cruise missiles and air-to-surface missiles.<\/li>\n<li>The missile was formally inducted into the Indian Air Force in July 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-test-fires-akash-missiles\/article8163440.ece\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/india-test-fires-akash-missiles\/article8163440.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ques: India on 28 January 2016 test fired its indigenously-developed surface-to-air Akash missile having strike range of- (a) 25 kilometers (b) 250 kilometers (c) 750 Kilometers (d) 9 kilometers Ans (a) Related facts: India on 28 January 2016 test fired its indigenously-developed surface-to-air Akash missileas part of a user trial from the Integrated Test Range [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dssn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8662\/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\/8647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8662"}],"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=8662"},{"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=8662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}