Successful test fire of Pinaka Rocket System by DRDO

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully test fired extended range version of indigenously developed Pinaka rocket from a Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher (MBRL)
Launch Site: Integrated Test Range (ITR), Chandipur off the coast of Odisha.
Enhanced range version of Pinaka Rocket System can destroy targets at distances up to 45 kms.
The Mark-II version of the rocket has been modified as a guided missile system by integrating it with the navigation, control and guidance system to improve the end accuracy and increase the range.
The navigation system of the missile is linked with the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System.

About Pinaka Missile System

Pinaka is an indigenously developed rocket system named after Lord Shiva’s mythological bow.
The development of the Pinaka was started by the DRDO in the late 1980s, as an alternative to the multi-barrel rocket launching systems of Russian make, called like the ‘Grad’, which are still in use
Pinaka can fire a salvo of 12 rockets over a period of 44 seconds.
It was first used in the battlefield during the Kargil War of 1999