2021
Question
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Indian Air Force (IAF)
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Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
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WWF
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Both A & B
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Detailed explanation-1: -The LR Bomb has been designed and developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), a DRDO laboratory located at Hyderabad in coordination with other DRDO laboratories.
Detailed explanation-2: -UPSC Mains. Q. India’s first indigenously developed Long-Range Bomb (LRB) has been developed by which organisation? Notes: An Indian Air Force (IAF) team and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully flight-tested India’s first indigenously developed Long-Range Bomb (LRB).
Detailed explanation-3: -Operation Smiling Buddha (MEA designation: Pokhran-I) was the assigned code name of India’s first successful nuclear bomb test on 18 May 1974.
Detailed explanation-4: -The bomb was released from 10 km altitude which successfully hit a sea based target using laser guidance. It is a 1, 000 kg bomb which DRDO developed as an alternative to Spice 2000. The LRGB is a part of a family of newly developed precision guided munitions with a range of 50 km to 150 km in range.
Detailed explanation-5: -strategic weapons system weapons system is that of long-range heavy bombers, or strategic bombers, which can fly intercontinental distances and drop free-fall bombs or launch cruise missiles, both thermonuclear-armed.