The Army first experienced the havoc caused by the Pinaka multiple barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) during the Kargil War in 1999, when the system, still under development, caused widespread depredation when fired at Pakistani infiltrators' positions.
The Army decided to replace its old, Soviet-era MBRLs—the venerable GRAD BM-21—with an indigenous MBRL. The result is the Pinaka. A Pinaka MBRL unit consists of 18 launchers, each of which fires on the enemy from 12 launcher tubes. Firing in rapid succession, these 216 launcher tubes can bring down seven tonnes of high explosive in just 44 seconds on a target 60 kilometres away, catching enemy troops in the open, without giving them time to take cover.
The Pinaka MBRL, named after the legendary bow of Lord Shiva, takes just three minutes to come into, and out of, action.
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