Upgraded Pinaka Rocket System test-fired successfully from Odisha base

TIL Desk/National/Balasore(Odisha)/ An upgraded version of India’s indigenously developed Pinaka guided rocket system was successfully test-fired from a base on Odisha coast on Thursday in a boost to the Army’s artillery power, defence sources said.

The multi-barrel rocket launch system, developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation or DRDO, was fired from the Proof and Experimental Establishment firing test range at Chandipur near Balasore at around noon, they said.

The weapon system, mounted on a Tatra truck, is equipped with state-of-the-art guidance kit comprising an advanced navigation and control system, DRDO sources told. Earlier, in March, three successful trials of the Pinaka guided rocket system were conducted from Pokhran test range in Rajasthan.