New Delhi: India successfully flight tested enhanced ‘PINAKA’ rocket, developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha today. A total of six rockets were launched in quick succession and the tests met complete mission objectives.
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.
The rockets tested today had been manufactured by M/s Economic Explosives Limited, Nagpur, to whom the technology had been transferred.
The Development of Enhanced Pinaka system was taken up to achieve longer range performance compared to earlier design with reduced length. The design and development had been carried out by Pune based DRDO laboratories, namely Armament Research and Development Establishment, ARDE and High Energy Materials Research Laboratory, HEMRL.
– globalbihari bureau
