DRDO Seeking Consultants for Next-Gen Pinaka Warhead Design with Extended Range

The Armament Research & Development Establishment (ARDE), a leading laboratory within India's Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO), has initiated the search for a qualified consultant to spearhead the design of next-generation warheads for the country's Pinaka rocket systems.

This consultancy underscores India's commitment to bolstering its artillery capabilities with the development of advanced Pinaka systems equipped with innovative warhead technology.

The selected consultant will play a vital role in designing warhead configurations tailored for both a new precision-guided variant of the Pinaka and drastically extended-range versions with operational reaches of 120 kilometers and 300 kilometers.

Consultant Responsibilities​

The chosen consultant will take charge of the meticulous engineering design of various warhead systems and their critical components for the entire Pinaka rocket family. Demonstrated expertise in optimizing warhead system design for maximum effectiveness and battlefield performance is a key requirement.

Beyond design, the consultant will be expected to develop comprehensive technical documentation. This includes the generation of detailed engineering drawings, Quality Assurance Plans (QAPs), and the production documents needed to ensure a seamless transition from the design phase to full-scale warhead manufacturing.

The Significance of Advanced Pinaka Systems​

These next-generation Pinaka rocket systems, equipped with cutting-edge warheads, represent a significant leap forward in India's artillery modernization program.

They will provide the Indian armed forces with enhanced firepower, precision targeting capabilities, and extended operational reach. This will be instrumental in effectively countering both current and emerging security threats.

 

[Ramsses CDXX]

Baap ko bhi salahkaar chahiye? Ab dadaji kahan se laayun. I thought DRDO is rocket & missile aatmanirbhar

🤷🏻‍♂️🤷🏻

 

[Apocalypse gupta]

Seeking a consultant is quickest way to design. Relying on domestic expertise will take too long. Maybe an american company like lockheed martin would be a good choice, since they build HIMARS rockets.

Relying on foreign consultants on certain tech has no shame. Going for domestic R&D route for everything is too costly and too time consuming. Only in certain strategic areas like ballistic missile development, 5th gen fighter, nuclear ballistic missile submarine etc should we have strict domestic R&D only policy.

 

[Bhupesh Desai]

This should be in house expertise why wasting money and time.

 

[Superpower Bharat]

Baap ko bhi salahkaar chahiye? Ab dadaji kahan se laayun. I thought DRDO is rocket & missile aatmanirbhar

They are talking about warhead not about rockets

 

[Superpower Bharat]

Now this is called very poor future planning. I am asking why this requirement was not placed to DRDO in 2010 or even before...? When every body make it even Pakistan made then only our army generals wake ups... It's really very very bad future planning for army

 

[INDIAN]

Do it fast , Chinese has already deployed 250 ,350 km range rockets and they have given to Pakistan also.
Here in India we are in designing phase only , another 10 years in induction.
Our army, DRDO sleeps or what , they don't know that Chinese are deploying this and it will ultimately reach Pakistan.
Now the threat is on its head, they have woken up from slumber, typical Indian mentality that not ready to change.

 

[ANUP]

I don't understand one thing when china created pakistan for us as counter balance strategy why didn't also make a country as counter balance for china , I mean why we didn't also provide same weapon to tht country also , why china providing weapons to pakistan is , half of our resources will divert into pakistan side and rest it's easy for china to defeat half ,if suppose china didn't provide weapons to pakistan then it's very difficult for china to defeat us thts why he created pakistan so tht our half resources will go on pakistan side but we didn't create anything like tht ,suppose we also provide arms to China's enemy it will also help us , China's resources will also get diverted and rest other half of china is easy to defeat but our babus were scared tht china might get angry ,we should not have to do anything which upset china ,tht was our approach which lead us to have two enemies on our backyard

 

[Ben]

the way its being advertised the chinese will recruit that person

 

[Vijay Anand]

Do it fast , Chinese has already deployed 250 ,350 km range rockets and they have given to Pakistan also.
Here in India we are in designing phase only , another 10 years in induction.
Our army, DRDO sleeps or what , they don't know that Chinese are deploying this and it will ultimately reach Pakistan.
Now the threat is on its head, they have woken up from slumber, typical Indian mentality that not ready to change.

Bro, how can u expect drdo to quick start this program when they were already getting delayed on the projects they had. Equally our IA is also responsible for lack of vision on future scenarios.

 

[Rational Guy]

They are talking about warhead not about rockets

Don't expect the guy above to have a working brain to process information properly.

 

[Apocalypse gupta]

Now this is called very poor future planning. I am asking why this requirement was not placed to DRDO in 2010 or even before...? When every body make it even Pakistan made then only our army generals wake ups... It's really very very bad future planning for army

Lol. Dude back then pinaka itself was a new system. Firget about pinaka mk2 or 3. And we relied on russian rocket artillery. We had tons of grad and smerch systems. There was no empahsis of domestic production and R&D. Back then only OFB produced pinaka rockets at slow rate.

Solar industries was brought in much later. First pinaka manufactured by solar industries was first tested only in 2020.

The future planning and procurement you are talking about has picked speed only in last 6-7 years.

 

[Apocalypse gupta]

I don't understand one thing when china created pakistan for us as counter balance strategy why didn't also make a country as counter balance for china , I mean why we didn't also provide same weapon to tht country also , why china providing weapons to pakistan is , half of our resources will divert into pakistan side and rest it's easy for china to defeat half ,if suppose china didn't provide weapons to pakistan then it's very difficult for china to defeat us thts why he created pakistan so tht our half resources will go on pakistan side but we didn't create anything like tht ,suppose we also provide arms to China's enemy it will also help us , China's resources will also get diverted and rest other half of china is easy to defeat but our babus were scared tht china might get angry ,we should not have to do anything which upset china ,tht was our approach which lead us to have two enemies on our backyard

There is no other country in china's neighbourhood with guts to go against china. China has bullied every other country into submission. It tried to bully india in galwan, doklam, and arunachal but it got bloody nose. In last many decades, galwan was the first incident when anither country had killed chinese troops

 

[Aravind Raveendran]

There is no other country in china's neighbourhood with guts to go against china. China has bullied every other country into submission. It tried to bully india in galwan, doklam, and arunachal but it got bloody nose. In last many decades, galwan was the first incident when anither country had killed chinese troops

Exactly, In recent history China has lost troops only to India .

 

[Sandeep]

Now this is called very poor future planning. I am asking why this requirement was not placed to DRDO in 2010 or even before...? When every body make it even Pakistan made then only our army generals wake ups... It's really very very bad future planning for army

Blame the corrupt jihadi party who preferred making foreign expensive deals as they received large commissions in exchange for the deals. Back then and since independence under the corrupt jihadi party they didn't start developing any indigenous advanced military weapons that we needed to develop like the long range MBRL, ship engines, tank engines, ATGM etc.

Also Pakistan hasn't developed anything. All of their military weapons and equipment has been supplied by China and Pakistan just changes the Chinese label by installing their own label and then they say to the people that they have developed them indigenously.

 

[NSR]

These two missile/rocket systems would be like Russian Smerch and USA ATACMS.
Great and timely decision.

 

[BCharlie]

Blame the corrupt jihadi party who preferred making foreign expensive deals as they received large commissions in exchange for the deals. Back then and since independence under the corrupt jihadi party they didn't start developing any indigenous advanced military weapons that we needed to develop like the long range MBRL, ship engines, tank engines, ATGM etc.

Also Pakistan hasn't developed anything. All of their military weapons and equipment has been supplied by China and Pakistan just changes the Chinese label by installing their own label and then they say to the people that they have developed them indigenously.

I agree fully with you that Pakistan may have or has begged borrowed stole eqpt, weapons etc from China.. what difference does it make to them.. reality here is that 'they have it'.. and we don't. We are still trying to Make in, then Made in and then Imported in, issues. We are talking & talking & talking and ....

 

[beencensured]

Seeking a consultant is quickest way to design. Relying on domestic expertise will take too long. Maybe an american company like lockheed martin would be a good choice, since they build HIMARS rockets.

Relying on foreign consultants on certain tech has no shame. Going for domestic R&D route for everything is too costly and too time consuming. Only in certain strategic areas like ballistic missile development, 5th gen fighter, nuclear ballistic missile submarine etc should we have strict domestic R&D only policy.

You make it sound like west wants to give technology? No they like to steal technology., they give ony when they can subvert indigenous programs. No one is going to make India a superpower except Indians.

 

[Shiva]

This is a wiser decision.
Till now, I see, many technology demonstrators, but all are just for technology demonstration. Minor configuration changes for effectiveness at real time war were not considered.
Mass scale produceability is also another concern in our approaches.
These two aspects are not considered before.
At least, now , a trend is started in mitigating one aspect.
Hopefully, eventually second aspect will also be addressed using similar approaches

 

[Sandeep]

India has already started producing a longer MBRL rocket with around a 100km range and it will soon be extended to around 300km. In this case the private sector can easily develop and manufacture the 300km long range rocket which will be produced at a very fast rate and better quality compared to the OFB which had sometimes manufactured faulty ammunition and it ended up killing our soldiers.