Indian Army gets indigenously made Pinaka rocket system

NEW DELHI, Feb 29 (KUNA) — Indigenously developed Pinaka rocket was Friday handed over to the Indian Army, adding teeth to the force.
Chairman of Indias Ordnance Factories Board, Sudipta Ghosh handed over the system to the Indian Army Vice Chief Lt. Gen. Milan Lalitkumar Naidu, at a function at Chandrapur district in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra today, news agency Indo Asian News Service reported. The ordnance factory will supply 300 Pinaka rockets to the Indian Army in 2008 and 1,000 rockets in 2009, an Indian Defence Ministry statement said here today. Pinaka, which is fired from a multi-barrel rocket launcher, has a range of 38 km. A Pinaka system consists of six launchers, six loader-cum-replenishment vehicles, three replenishment vehicles, a command post vehicle with a fire control computer and a meteorological radar, the news agency said.
Indias Defence Research and Development Organisation has developed the Pinaka system.