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“Mercenary cavalry raider, incredibly good against resource buildings.”

The DRDO Pinaka is a Mercenary Cavalry Raider available at Mercenary Camp level 14. The previous mercenary of this type is the 2K12 Kub. The next mercenary of this type is the MX-7 Gagamba.

Historical Description[]

India has a long history of rocket warfare stretching back at least to Mughal times. The latest development in this tradition is the Pinaka multi-barrel rocket launch (MBRL) system. The DRDO, part of India's Ministry of Defence, began working on it in 1986. It was ready by the mid-1990s, seeing its first combat in 1999 during the Kargil War with Pakistan. The system performed well enough that a dedicated MBRL regiment was established the following year.

A full Pinaka battery consists of over a dozen vehicles: six launchers, six loader-replenishers, two command posts, and a weather radar. The launcher is a Tatra truck with a pair of rocket pods on top that hold half a dozen warheads each, making a total capacity of 72 rockets per battery. These can be launched at the same time or separately from the fire control computers in the command posts. In 2019, a Mk II version of the rocket with improved precision guidance systems and longer range was successfully tested, showing India's ongoing commitment to the Pinaka system.



Trivia

The DRDO Pinaka looks like an MRL, also because the operate the same way.