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05/11/20 20:08 PM IST

Source: https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1670104

PINAKA Rocket System successfully Flight Tested

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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

  • Development of Enhanced Pinaka system was taken up to achieve longer range performance compared to earlier design with reduced length. 
  • A total of six rockets were launched in quick succession and the tests met complete mission objectives. 
  • An enhanced version of the Pinaka rocket would replace the existing Pinaka Mk-I rockets which are currently under production.
  • The rocket has a state-of-the-art guidance navigation and control system with which it has become efficient to identify its target and hit it.

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

In the battlefield, long-range artillery systems like Pinaka are used for attacking the adversary targets prior to the close quarter battles which involve smaller range artillery, armoured elements and the infantry.

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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