Enhanced Pinaka rocket system flight tested

The Enhanced Pinaka rocket system, developed by the DRDO, was successfully flight tested from Integrated Test Range, Chandipur off the coast of Odisha on 4 November 2020. The design and development has been carried out by Pune-based DRDO laboratories, essentially the 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”. The rockets were tested by Economic Explosives Limited, Nagpur, to whom the technology was transferred. All the flight articles were tracked by Range instruments such as telemetry, radar and Electro Optical Tracking Systems which confirmed the flight performance.