List of Indian Missiles
List of Indian Missiles :-
1. Prithvi-I (SS-150)(Range: 150 km, Payload: 1000 kg, User: Army)
2. Prithvi-II (SS-250)(Range: 250 km – 350 km, Payload: 500 kg – 1000 kg, User: Air Force, Army)
3. Prithvi-III (SS-350)(Range: 350 km – 600 km, Payload: 250 kg – 500 kg, User: Army, Air Force, Navy)
4. Agni-I(Range: 700 – 1,200 km, Type: MRBM, User: Army, Air Force)
5. Agni-II(Range: 2,000 – 2,500 km, Type: IRBM, User: Army, Air Force)
6. Agni-III(Range: 3,000 – 5,000 km, Type: IRBM, User: Army, Air Force)
7. Agni-IV(Range: 2,500 – 3,700 km, Type: IRBM, User: Army, Air Force)
8. Agni-V(Range: 5,000 – 8,000 km, Type: ICBM, User: Army, Air Force)
9. Agni-VI(Range: 8,000 – 10,000 km, Type: ICBM, User: Army, Air Force)
10. K-15(Range: 750 km, Weight: 10 tonne, Warhead: 1 tonne, length: 10 m)
11. K-4(Range: 3,500-5,000 km, Weight: 17 tonnes, Warhead: 1 tonne – 2.5 tonnes, length: 10 m)
12. K-5(Range: 6,000 km, Weight: Unspecified, Warhead: 1 tonne, length: Unspecified)
13. BrahMos(Type: Supersonic, Range: 290 km, Status: Inducted)
14. Shaurya (Type: Hypersonic, Range: 1000-1800 Km, Status: Inducted)
15. SRSAM (Type: Hypersonic, Range: 15 Km, Status: Inducted)
16. Pinaka (Range: 40 km, Status: Inducted)
17. Nag (Range: 4km, Status: Induction)
18. Akash (Range: 30 Km , Status: Inducted)
19. Phase-I:(Status: Development completed)
20. MRSAM(Range: 70 km, Used: Air force)
Some other Indian Missiles that are either in development phase or in testing phase are :
1. BrahMos-2(Type: Hypersonic, Range: 290 km, Status: In development)
2. Long-Range Cruise Missile (LRCM) (Type: Supersonic, Range: 1000 km, Status: In development)
3. Pinaka 2 (Range: 120 km, Status: Design Phase)
4. Nag 2(Range: 7 km, Status: In development)
5. Akash MK2(Range: 45 -50 KM, Status: In development)
6. Astra missile Mk2(Range: 100-120 km, Status: Design Phase)
7. Phase-II(Status: In design Phase)
8. Prahaar(Range: 150 KM, Status: In Test Phase)
9. Astra(Range: 80 km, Status: In Trail Phase)
10. Helina(Range: 7Km, Status: In Test Phase)
11. LRSAM (Range: 70 Km, Status: testing phase)
12. Trishul (Range: 8-12 Km, Status: Closed)
General knowledge questions
1. The study of Bones is called?
Answer: Osteology
2. Cells of bone is called?
Answer: Osteocytes
3. Cells of cartilage is called?
Answer: Chondrocytes
4. The total number of bones in an Adult human body?
Answer: 206
5. The number of ribs in the human body?
Answer: 24
6. The face of a man is made up of?
Answer: 14 bones
7. A number of bones in spinal column?
Answer: 33
8. A number of bones in Ear?
Answer: 3
9. Which is the longest bone?
Answer: Femur
10. Which is the smallest bone?
Answer: Stapes
11. Breast bone?
Answer: Sternum
12. Total number of muscles?
Answer: 639
13. Study of body movements?
Answer: Kinesiology
14. Strongest muscles?
Answer: Jaw muscles
15. Largest muscles?
Answer: Gluteus maximus
16. Smallest muscles?
Answer: Stapedius
17. The breaking of a bone is known as?
Answer: Fracture
GK For Various Entrance Examination
1. In order of their distances from the Sun, which of the following planets lie between
Mars and Uranus?
(a) Earth and Jupiter
(b) Jupiter and Saturn
(c) Saturn and Earth
(d) Saturn and Neptune
Answer. (b)
2. Comets revolve around:
(a) Sun
(b) Earth
(c) Venus
(d) No single heavenly body
Answer. (a)
3. Which one of the following is correct? Great Bear is a
(a) Galaxy
(b) Planet
(c) Star
(d) Constellation
Answer. (d)
4. The hottest planet is:
(a) Mercury
(b) Venus
(c) Jupiter
(d) Saturn
Answer. (b)
5. Which of the planets is nearest to the earth?
(a) Jupiter
(b) Venus
(c) Mercury
(d) Mars
Answer. (b)
6. Which one of the following planets takes the same number of days
for rotation And revolution?
(a) Mars
(b) Venus
(c) Mercury
(d) Jupiter
Answer. (b)
7. Which of the following planets of the solar system has the longest day?
(a) Mercury
(b) Jupiter
(c) Venus
(d) Earth
Answer. (c)
8. Which planet of the solar system spins on its axis at the fastest rate?
(a) Mercury
(b) Earth
(c) Jupiter
(d) Satum
Answer. (c)
7. Which planet looks reddish in the night sky?
(a) Mercury
(b) Mars
(c) Jupiter
(d) Saturn
Answer. (b)
8. Which of the following is the largest of the inner planets?
(a) Venus
(b) Mercury
(c) Mars
(d) Earth
Answer. (d)
9. A black hole is a:
(a) Contracted star with intense gravitational pull
(b) Star with very low surface temperature
(c) Star with no atmosphere
(d) Pulsating star
Answer. (a)
10. Asteroids have their orbits between the planets:
(a) Mercury and Venus
(b) Earth and Mars
(c) Mars and Jupiter
(d) Jupiter and Saturn
Answer. (c)
11. The orbits of planets around the Sun, or of satellites around the Earth, can be:
(a) Circular and elliptic
(b) Circular and hyperbolic
(c) Elliptic and parabolic
(d) Parabolic and hyperbolic
Answer. (a)
12. NASA’s Deep Impact space mission was employed to take detailed pictures of which comet nucleus?
(a) Halley’s Comet
(b) Hale-Bopp
(c) Hyakutake
(d) Temple
Answer. (d)
13. Foucault experiment is proof of which one of the following?
(a) Revolution of Earth
(b) Rotation of Earth
(c) Rotation of Moon
(d) Revolution of Moon
Answer. (b)
14. The earth rotates around its axis from:
(a) North to south
(b) East to west
(c) South to north
(d) West to east
Answer. (d)
15. “Mohs’ Scale” is used to indicate the:
(a) Degree of brittleness of a substance
(b) Degree of hardness of minerals.
(c) Degree of viscosity of a liquid
(d) Degree of elasticity of a material
Answer. (b)
20 less known but interesting facts
World is full of amazing surprises and interesting facts. Here you may find 20 such interesting facts for your information.
- Money isn’t made out of paper. It’s made out of cotton.
- The world’s highest cricket ground is in Himachal Pradesh. It was built after a hill was leveled at over 2,400 meter above sea level.
- Red is the color of good luck and is usually worn for weddings and other celebrations and festivals.
- The world’s largest Montessori school is in India. It has over 26,000 students.
- Until 1986, the only place where diamonds had been officially found was in India.
- The world’s largest road network is in India—over 1.9 million miles of roads cover the country.
- There are only two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: “abstemious” and “facetious.”
- When the moon is directly overhead, you will weigh slightly less.
- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters on only one row of the keyboard.
- The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for blood plasma.
- Dolphins can swim and sleep at the same time, as they sleep with one eye open.
- When going to battle Indian kings would make their horses wear trunks. The other side’s elephants would refuse to attack the horses thinking that the horses were baby elephants.
- Babies are always born with blue eyes. The melanin in their eyes needs time to be fully deposited or to be darkened by ultraviolet light to reveal the baby’s true eye color.
- Shani Shingnapur is one of the most amazing village of India. All houses in the village didn’t have doors including their shops and halls. They have never kept their valulable things in lock and key. No theft has been reported yet in the village, it is the most amazing fact about India. This village is situated in Nevasa taluka of Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra state in India.
- ‘Navi Mumbai’ is the largest planned township on the planet which was developed in 1972.
- Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has developed first rocket with other research organization. They have used cycle as their medium of transportation.
- It is known that Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam is widely popular as the people’s president in the country.
- It is impossible to lick your elbow. Over 75% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.
- If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out.