05/11/20 20:08 PM IST
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Enhanced PINAKA rocket, developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has been successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha today, 04 November 2020.
Highlights
What's new?
The development of the enhanced Pinaka system was taken up to achieve longer range performance compared to the earlier designs with a reduced length.
The origin of Pinaka rocket system
After successful tests of Pinaka Mark-1 in the late 1990, it was first used in the battlefield during the Kargil War of 1999, quite successfully. Subsequently multiple regiments of the system came up over the 2000s.
Source: PIB
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