Army inducts 7th regiment of Pinaka rocket launchers

15 rocket artillery regiments in place currently

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THE Indian Army has added another Pinaka regiment and is preparing to induct one more by the end of the year, as it expands rocket artillery capability along the western and northern frontiers, it is learnt.

“The seventh regiment has already been operationalised. The eighth has been raised and has received more than half its equipment. It is currently undergoing conversion and should become operational before the end of the year,” sources in the defence establishment said.

Two more regiments from a batch of six ordered in 2020 are expected to be operationalised next year, which will take the total number of Pinaka regiments in service to ten.