{"id":30165,"date":"2024-09-28T19:16:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T13:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/?p=30165"},"modified":"2024-09-28T19:16:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T13:46:23","slug":"long-range-rockets-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/28-09-2024\/long-range-rockets-in-india","title":{"rendered":"Long Range Rockets in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS3\/Defense and Security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recently, the Indian Army aims for long-range Rockets and futuristic ammunition, after building on the lessons from the Ukraine war and the offensive in Gaza by Israel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>About the Extended Range Rockets<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Indian Army is looking at <strong>long-range rockets<\/strong> and looking to extend the range of the <strong>indigenous Pinaka Multi-Barrel Rocket Launch System (MRLS)<\/strong> rockets up to 300 kms in coming times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-dominant-color=\"676460\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Long-Range-Rockets-in-India-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"Long Range Rockets in India\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-30166\" style=\"--dominant-color: #676460; width:456px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Long-Range-Rockets-in-India-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Long-Range-Rockets-in-India-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Long-Range-Rockets-in-India-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/wp-images.nextias.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto\/ca\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Long-Range-Rockets-in-India-jpg.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trials are underway for guided <strong>extended-range Pinaka rockets<\/strong>. These rockets promise improved accuracy and c<strong>an cover distances of up to 75 kilometres and beyond<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Indian Army has approved the procurement of the <strong>Pralay tactical ballistic missiles<\/strong> (with a range of 400 km) and <strong>Nirbhay subsonic cruise missiles<\/strong> (with a range of 1000 km).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>DRDO was in the process of developing <strong>hypersonic missiles<\/strong> for the defence forces of the country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Artillery Transformation<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Indian Army has a roadmap to standardise all its artillery guns to the 155mm calibre. It streamlines <strong>logistics, maintenance, and training.<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS)<\/strong>, similar to what the <strong>US supplied to Ukraine<\/strong>, also uses guided rockets. The Indian Army is keen on adopting similar technology to maximise precision and effectiveness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-background\" style=\"background-color:#fff2cc\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Nirbhay Missile<\/strong><br>&#8211; It is a Long Range Subsonic Cruise Missile capable of deep penetration into adversary territory to strike high value targets with precision.<br>&#8211; It is being adopted for launch from sea and air platforms.&nbsp;<br>&#8211; India is in the list of select few countries having capability to design and develop this class of cruise missiles.<br><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nirbhay Missile\n\" width=\"259.16577540106954\" height=\"194.33015174521123\" src=\"https:\/\/lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com\/docsz\/AD_4nXeBEhXYvB7PmQesNuTNMuGeNqTACrNIpMHhq-iS8eqA12zGdiJ9RIV1IqSMDswzdFhqPd3VzEpTBx7JzXoIf-aY4jKpVTXgp1p39-pr-AJ874rK3uQnr4BPJxCiQWase1p2pkvoxpOsgOJRiuYzIfST8f3j?key=nDnucfhXgIRZZb_L_Bi-Ew\"><br><strong>&#8216;Pralay&#8217; Missile<\/strong><br>&#8211; It is a surface-to-surface short-range (350-500 km), surface-to-surface ballistic missile with a payload capacity of 500-1,000 kg.<br><strong>Pinaka Multi Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL)<\/strong><br>&#8211; It is an <strong>all-weather, multi-barrel artillery weapon system<\/strong> to deliver a <strong>large volume of fire within a very short time<\/strong> against critical and sensitive area targets.&nbsp;<br>&#8211; It has quick response time and relatively high pointing accuracy.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/lessons-from-ukraine-war-army-outlines-long-range-rockets-diversified-vendor-base-for-ammunition\/article68690415.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source: TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the Indian Army aims for long-range Rockets and futuristic ammunition, after building on the lessons from the Ukraine war and the offensive in Gaza by Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30167,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30165\/revisions\/30167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}