Pinaka to Suryastra: India's push for deeper, precise strikes without fighter jets

In the opening move of Operation Sindoor, the Indian armed forces struck nine terror targets deep inside Pakistan. The biggest of these targets were the Lashkar-e-Taiba headquarters and Hizbul Mujahideen's headquarters located in Muridke, north of Lahore and in Bahawalpur west of Anupgarh in Rajasthan. The deepest terror target was the Hizbul headquarters, which was approximately a 100km deep inside Pakistan.India is now developing a version of the Pinaka rocket which can hit targets 120km away. This variant is known as the Long Range Guided Rocket. At the range of 120km all the targets hit on the first day of Operation Sindoor. The Pinaka rocket, with a warhead of 100kgs, lacks the punch of bigger and more prominent weapon systems such as the Brahmos and the Pralay missiles which can carry between 300-1,000kgs payload.