{"id":31254,"date":"2025-03-15T08:40:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T03:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31254"},"modified":"2025-04-16T10:29:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T04:59:32","slug":"ashwini-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/ashwini-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashwini Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ashwini Radar Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Union Ministry of Defence (MoD) recently signed a \u20b92,906 crore contract with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), Ghaziabad for the procurement of Low-level Transportable Radar, LLTR (Ashwini).<\/p>\n<h2>About Ashwini Radar<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>LLTR (Ashwini) is an <strong>active electronically scanned phased array radar<\/strong> based on state-of-the-art <strong>solid-state technology.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is capable of <strong>tracking aerial targets<\/strong> from high-speed fighter aircraft to slow-moving targets such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and helicopters.<\/li>\n<li>The fully indigenous Ashwini radars have been jointly developed by the <strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and BEL.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These radars feature i<strong>ntegrated Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) system<\/strong>s with electronic scanning in azimuth and elevation, enabling 4D surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>Designed for mobility, the radars come with advanced <strong>Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM)<\/strong> capabilities and can operate across various terrains.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>automatically detect and track aerial targets,<\/strong> including fighter jets and slow-moving objects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Ashwini Radar FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is a RADAR?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) is a system that uses radio waves to detect and determine the distance, speed, and direction of objects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is Bharat Electronics Limited?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is an Indian Public Sector Unit and aerospace and defence electronics company.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is an Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft that operates without a human pilot onboard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/ministry-of-defence-signs-2906-crore-radar-contract-with-bel-for-the-indian-air-force\/article69321709.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashwini Radar is an active electronically scanned phased array radar based on state-of-the-art solid-state technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31254","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\/31254","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=31254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}