For vehicle integrated navigation systems, real-time estimating states of the dead reckoning (DR) unit is much more difficult than that of the other measuring sensors under indefinite noises and nonlinear characteristics.Compared with the well known, extended Kalman filter (EKF), a recurrent neural network is proposed for the solution, which not only improves the location precision and the adaptive ability of resisting disturbances, but also avoids calculating the analytic derivation and Jacobiaa matrices of the nonlinear system model. To test the performances of the recurrent neural network, these two methods are used to estimate the state of the vehicles DR navigation system. Simulation results show that the recurrent neural network is superior to the EKF and is a more ideal filtering method for vehicle DR navigation.