Specifications
- Range: 7 km - 42 km (4.4 - 26 mi)
- Rocket Diameter: 214 mm (8.42 in)
- Length: 4.95 m (16.24 ft)
- Warhead weight: 100 kg (220 lbs)
- Total weight: 276 kg (608 lbs)
Warheads:
- Fragmentation high explosive
- Incendiary
- Anti-Tank and Anti-Personnel minelettes
- Anti-Tank bomblettes
Launcher
- Based on a Kolos Tatra truck for high mobility. The truck is license manufactured by BEML.
- The truck features a central type regulation system; the driver can adjust the tire pressure to suit the terrain for optimum mobility.
- Two rocket pods per launcher, with a total of twelve rockets between them.
- A total of six launchers per battery.
- Launchers are NBC protected, have their own computerized fire control system, and automatic positioning system.
- The Pinaka system and the launchers are designed for shoot and scoot fire missions thanks to the use of an inertial navigation system SIGMA 30.
- A battery of six launchers can neutralize an area of roughly 1000 * 800 meters at 40 km range.
- The launcher assembly has electromagnetic elevation and traverse, with traverse being 90° left and right of the centerline and elevation up to 55°
Rate of Fire for a complete salvo from a launcher:
- Approximately 44 seconds.
Salvo Reload time
- 4 minutes.
CEP
- 1-2% of range
- Improved substantially when Trajectory Correction System was incorporated.
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