{"id":212041,"date":"2022-10-28T19:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=212041"},"modified":"2022-10-28T19:03:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:33:31","slug":"this-word-means-hawk-air-defence-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/this-word-means-hawk-air-defence-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"This Word Means | HAWK air defence equipment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>This Word Means | HAWK air defence equipment<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in <\/span><b>Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 25th October 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United States is considering retrieving older HAWK air defence equipment from storage to send to Ukraine which is facing a heavy barrage of Russian drone-fired and cruise missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The HAWK interceptor missiles would be an upgrade to the Stinger missile systems &#8211; a smaller, shorter-range air defense system &#8211; that the United States has already sent to Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is <\/b><b>HAWK air defence equipment?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HAWK stands for \u2018Homing All the Way Killer\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a medium-range, surface-to-air guided missile that provides air defence coverage against low-to-medium-altitude aircraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been developed by Raytheon, a US-based aerospace and defense company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It initially entered service with the US army in 1959. It has been superseded by the Patriot missile defense system.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cThis Word Means | HAWK air defence equipment\u201d published in Indian Express on 25th October 2022 What is the News? The United States is considering retrieving older HAWK air defence equipment from storage to send to Ukraine which is facing a heavy barrage of Russian drone-fired and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/this-word-means-hawk-air-defence-equipment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Word Means | HAWK air defence equipment<\/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":[10500],"class_list":["post-212041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704916095},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212041","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=212041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}