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.

 

[Apocalypse gupta]

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.

No, they will sell technology. Turkey has partnered with BAE systems for KAAN, and korea has partnered with Lockheed martin for KF-21. Even we relied on foreign partners for many things. We received design help from a European company for Tejas and another aircraft trainer. Dornier is license production. K9 vajra is based on korean tech, which itself is based on American howitzers.

Western countries dont steal, they usually partner with each other to share development costs. They have good respect for IP. COuntries like China are addicted to stealing tech, and have 0 disregard for IP.

 

[Pad UwU]

No, they will sell technology. Turkey has partnered with BAE systems for KAAN, and korea has partnered with Lockheed martin for KF-21. Even we relied on foreign partners for many things. We received design help from a European company for Tejas and another aircraft trainer. Dornier is license production. K9 vajra is based on korean tech, which itself is based on American howitzers.

Western countries dont steal, they usually partner with each other to share development costs. They have good respect for IP. COuntries like China are addicted to stealing tech, and have 0 disregard for IP.

Many commentators here are delulu when it comes to make in India.... They always forgot the debacle of too much delays and too much never ending changes of specs of every weapons project we have right now... ie Tejas, AMCA and many more 😹😹😹
Remember if you go solo, you need big brain of manpower and capital for funding plus a long patient of time table.... But if you want to finish ahead get a foreign partner as long bothof you align all your focus of the project

 

[Sandeep]

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 ....

Pakistan think they have made a good weapons deal from China but reality is that their capabilities underperform in every aspect. Also they don’t hold any technology advantage against India. So we are developing critical weapons and technology but they take time.

 

[bonito]

They are talking about warhead not about rockets

When were rockets and it's warheads seperately designed ? They certainly would confirm to some specifications unlike to saying you cannot design a elephant warhead to be carried by meakly rocket.

 

[beencensured]

Many commentators here are delulu when it comes to make in India.... They always forgot the debacle of too much delays and too much never ending changes of specs of every weapons project we have right now... ie Tejas, AMCA and many more 😹😹😹
Remember if you go solo, you need big brain of manpower and capital for funding plus a long patient of time table.... But if you want to finish ahead get a foreign partner as long bothof you align all your focus of the project

Children have dreams of handholding, while superpowers do on own.

 

[सम्राट]

Now it's in open, how this government is going to sell Pinaka technology to private companies.
Like they did it in Tejas fly by wire application to Lockheed martin and in Kaveri engine to Safran.
I wonder how much quid pro quo funding or business came to our supreme leader.
"All hail the Empire"
Instead of investing in domestic ecosystem, our supreme leader is going to sell this tech to other countries or companies. Even pay them for it.
"All hail the empire"

 

[beencensured]

No, they will sell technology. Turkey has partnered with BAE systems for KAAN, and korea has partnered with Lockheed martin for KF-21. Even we relied on foreign partners for many things. We received design help from a European company for Tejas and another aircraft trainer. Dornier is license production. K9 vajra is based on korean tech, which itself is based on American howitzers.

Western countries dont steal, they usually partner with each other to share development costs. They have good respect for IP. COuntries like China are addicted to stealing tech, and have 0 disregard for IP.

Kaan partner with BAE, but what is kaan capability, as Turkey is NATO ally. Further South Korea is playtoy of USA and so much for their fighters. All are immature designs and ad hoc.

Bhim spg was an actual good product with T6 turret main gun with greater firing range, but was killed due to corruption and your Korean junks that have killed many soldiers in Korea as K9 is a shameless useless nonsense of sabotage of Indigenous development by very corrupt strategic partnership model.

Tejas received what help in design as it is Indian design? West had stolen Indian fly by wire of Tejas. Just remember Jagadish Chandra Bose who discovered microwaves and semiconductor and started the wireless communication and signal processing which from mobiles to remote control, to satellite communication is based because of white Christian narrative deny all his achievements as it would make west look like chor and good for nothing which the lying west still hide that all modern science and university education is based on ancient books, that mathematics and surgery are Hindu invention developed from Hindu educational system.

It like recently the Tejas crashing because of ge404 engine failure or spending 9 billion euros on Rafale another joke.

 

[Apocalypse gupta]

Many commentators here are delulu when it comes to make in India.... They always forgot the debacle of too much delays and too much never ending changes of specs of every weapons project we have right now... ie Tejas, AMCA and many more 😹😹😹
Remember if you go solo, you need big brain of manpower and capital for funding plus a long patient of time table.... But if you want to finish ahead get a foreign partner as long bothof you align all your focus of the project

I dont believe there is a hard and fast rule when it comes to these things. Having a foreign partner is a careful decision that should be made for any important project. Sometimes there is need for it, like submarines, sometimes there is not, like main battle tanks.

 

[Amit]

Means this will take a lot of time...hmm

 

[Pad UwU]

Children have dreams of handholding, while superpowers do on own.

It's called dream big with high risk of return, or get lazy with low esteem while fall like a slapsoil on the ground

 

[ANUP]

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

China is tht country who is not going to go for war , he just want to use bullying tactics to scare enemy so tht thy won't do anything. When galwan incident happened and we giving bloody nose ,tell me what happened after tht , why didn't china raise the temperature,why he didn't use firepower or why he didn't go for a limited small intensity of war , china even can't be able to do anything against taiwan ,Vietnam , Philippines or Japan, remember always the more we play steady ,good boy image , always trying to show world we r so good ,we help countries,we r Gandhi's policy following country ,the more countries will bully us , today world is might is right , we should have to learn from Iran , a country who have nuclears ,who is going to attack u , it just need a strong policy and to shed away from goody boy image , if u won't scare ur enemy then their is no use of those weapons