{"id":25493,"date":"2024-07-31T01:34:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T20:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25493"},"modified":"2025-10-13T11:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:03:16","slug":"advanced-land-navigation-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/advanced-land-navigation-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Advanced Land Navigation System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Advanced Land Navigation System:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>Ring Laser Gyro<\/strong> (RLG) based navigation system.<\/li>\n<li>It is used for traversing a path defined by the coordinates of a <strong>military map in ESM format<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The system provides Inertial, GPS<strong> and Hybrid Navigation<\/strong> data for the navigation requirements.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The system is spoof-proof with high levels of encryption.<\/li>\n<li>It can be operated in <strong>three different modes<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inertial Mode:<\/strong> In this, systems operate completely on the Inertial Sensor Inputs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hybrid Mode:<\/strong> It takes the inputs from inertial sensor as well as GPS receiver and selects the most accurate data for calculations of navigational parameters.<\/li>\n<li><strong>GPS Mode<\/strong>: In this, system is independent of inertial sensor inputs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>ALNS Mk-II is compatible with <strong>Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System<\/strong>, NAVigation using Indian Constellation (IRNSS, NavlC), India in addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Global Positioning System (GPS)<\/a> and <strong>Global Navigation Satellite System<\/strong> (GLONASS).<\/li>\n<li>The ALNS Mk-II offers compatibility with Defence Series Maps resulting in very high accuracy in navigational applications for AFVs.<\/li>\n<li>This equipment will be <strong>procured from Bharat Electronics Limited<\/strong> (BEL), Chennai under Buy [lndian-Indigenously Designed Developed and Manufactured (lDDM)] category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is NavIC?<\/h3>\n<p>It is also known as the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is an independent stand-alone indigenous navigation satellite system developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2038476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DAC clears capital acquisition proposals to enhance the capabilities of Indian Army &amp; Indian Coast Guard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advanced Land Navigation System is used for traversing a path defined by the coordinates of a military map in ESM format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25493","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\/25493","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=25493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}