Enhanced version of PINAKA Rocket System successfully Flight Tested

New Delhi: 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.

Development of Enhanced Pinaka system was taken up to achieve longer range performance compared to earlier design with reduced length.

The design and development has been carried out by Pune based DRDO laboratories, namely  Armament Research and Development Establishment, ARDE and High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, HEMRL.

A total of six rockets were launched in quick succession and the tests met complete mission objectives.

Rockets tested have been manufactured by M/s Economic Explosives Limited, Nagpur, to whom the technology has been transferred.

All the flight articles were tracked by Range instruments such as telemetry, radar and Electro Optical Tracking Systems which confirmed the flight performance.

Enhanced version of the Pinaka rocket would replace the existing Pinaka Mk-I rockets which are currently under production.

Pinaka rockets have been named after the bow of God Shiv. The Chinese have deployed rocket regiments in the Occupied Aksai Chin area and this enhanced version of Pinaka will help Indian forces counter that.