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India test-fires Pinaka rocket launcher in Orissa

None | ByIndo-Asian News Service, Bhubaneswar
Mar 28, 2006 06:59 PM IST

The indigenously built Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher can fire rockets with a range of 39-40 kilometres.

India has twice tested rocket launcher Pinaka from a defence base in Orissa on Tuesday, officials sources said.

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The first test was carried out at 3.15 pm and the second one at 3.45 pm, both from the experimental establishment in the coastal district of Balasore.

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The indigenously built Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher can fire rockets with a range of 39-40 kilometres. It can fire 12 rockets with 1.2 tonnes of high explosives within 40 seconds.



Defence officials described the tests as a routine exercise.

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