{"id":19777,"date":"2024-01-27T11:56:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T06:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=19777"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T06:16:28","slug":"armado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/armado\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Armado?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Armado<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0India\u2019s first Armoured Light Specialist Vehicle (ALSV).<\/li>\n<li>It is a fully indigenous vehicle designed and built by the Mahindra Defence Systems (MDS)\u00a0for the Indian armed forces.<\/li>\n<li>It can be used in counter-terrorist and special forces operations. It can also be used by quick reaction teams, as a reconnaissance vehicle and for patrolling the borders.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>It has a\u00a0seating capacity of six passengers, including the driver, and can be configured to seat up to eight.<\/li>\n<li>Above the standard 1,000 kg load capacity, the ASLV can carry another 400 kg.<\/li>\n<li>It gets ballistic protection up to the B7 level and STANAG level-2. This means that\u00a0its armour offers protection against armour-piercing rifles.<\/li>\n<li>Also, the ASLV\u00a0gets protection on all sides (front, side and rear)\u00a0from ballistics and explosives.<\/li>\n<li>Powering the 4-wheeler is a 3.2-litre multi-fuel diesel engine that generates 216 hp of maximum power.<\/li>\n<li>Armado takes just 12 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 60 kmph, and runs at a speed of more than 120 kmph.<\/li>\n<li>It also gets a self-cleaning-type exhaust scavenging and air filtration system for extreme dusty climate, like deserts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is an Armored Light Specialist Vehicle (ALSV)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a light armoured specialist vehicle built for use by military and defence forces. It\u2019s designed to be a modular type vehicle allowing for efficient maintenance and it can be upgraded or configured in the field for a wide variety of operational roles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.abplive.com\/auto\/mahindra-armado-military-vehicle-makes-its-debut-at-republic-day-parade-1659668\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Mahindra Armado Military Vehicle Makes Its Debut At Republic Day Parade<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armado is India\u2019s first Armoured Light Specialist Vehicle (ALSV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}