{"id":208467,"date":"2022-09-28T18:42:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=208467"},"modified":"2022-09-28T18:42:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T13:12:41","slug":"successful-flight-tests-of-very-short-range-air-defence-systemvshorads-missile-by-drdo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/successful-flight-tests-of-very-short-range-air-defence-systemvshorads-missile-by-drdo\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Flight Tests of Very Short Range Air Defence System(VSHORADS) Missile by DRDO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Successful\u00a0 Flight Tests of Very Short Range Air Defence System(VSHORADS) Missile by DRDO<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b>on<b> 26th September 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Defense Research and Development Organization(DRDO) has conducted two successful test flights of the Very Short Range Air Defense System(VSHORADS).<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is a Very Short Range Air Defense System(VSHORADS)?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VSHORADS is an indigenously designed and developed Man Portable Air Defence System (MANPAD).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Developed by:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> DRDO&#8217;s Research Center Imarat(RCI), Hyderabad in collaboration with other DRDO laboratories and Indian Industry Partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Purpose: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">neutralize low-altitude aerial threats at short ranges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Features: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> missile is propelled by a dual-thrust solid motor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also incorporates a number of novel technologies, including a miniaturized Reaction Control System and integrated avionics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VSHORAD is considered extremely vital for the defense of any major city or any strategically important location. The present stock with the Indian Army like the Air Defence Guns L-70 and the ZU-23 is over four decades old and hence totally obsolete.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cSuccessful\u00a0 Flight Tests of Very Short Range Air Defence System(VSHORADS) Missile by DRDO\u201d published in PIB on 26th September 2022 What is the News? The Defense Research and Development Organization(DRDO) has conducted two successful test flights of the Very Short Range Air Defense System(VSHORADS). What is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/successful-flight-tests-of-very-short-range-air-defence-systemvshorads-missile-by-drdo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Successful Flight Tests of Very Short Range Air Defence System(VSHORADS) Missile by DRDO<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-208467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703755379},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}