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India test-fires Pinaka rocket launcher in Orissa
The indigenously built Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launcher can fire rockets with a range of 39-40 kilometres.
Updated on: Mar 28, 2006, 18:59:00 IST
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India has twice tested rocket launcher Pinaka from a defence base in Orissa on Tuesday, officials sources said.
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.
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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