See, conceptually Pinaka is area weapon, immediately told by ARDE chief over the suggestion. Area weapons are for tactical short to mid range battlefield application. These are not for long range precision strike in a contested battlefield zone which is usually within a circle of 20-30 km, maybe today expanded to 40 km. Its army weapon and army would not be primarily responsible for striking beyond 30km, 40 km maybe 50km. That would be airforce job.
Today if the theme is to put everything on a single truck TEL platform for ease of operation, its not that the weapon system is irrelevant or past it, rather it is that a user want to cut off large maintenance work on the subsystems ie loading vehicle, MAL, radar vehicle, replenishing vehicle etc due to shorter manpower availability. In this process that user is only decreasing its own capacity. Quality and quantity both are equally important and our army knows it. If I can maintain enough capacity for each of 50 km range, 100km range 300km range systems separately instead of lumbering all into 1 single regiment, it increases my warfighting capacity because during war if half of carrier vehicles are lost or broke for a time, warfighting ability hampers until replenishment arrive to make up for shortfall.
Case in point, different EU countries armed forces suppose to have such high end systems but in short numbers. Which is why the balkans try to show off combined strength , but as soon as time comes to face a large foe, they all wet their pants at the prospect of fighting alone without a big power backing them up.
Today if the theme is to put everything on a single truck TEL platform for ease of operation, its not that the weapon system is irrelevant or past it, rather it is that a user want to cut off large maintenance work on the subsystems ie loading vehicle, MAL, radar vehicle, replenishing vehicle etc due to shorter manpower availability. In this process that user is only decreasing its own capacity. Quality and quantity both are equally important and our army knows it. If I can maintain enough capacity for each of 50 km range, 100km range 300km range systems separately instead of lumbering all into 1 single regiment, it increases my warfighting capacity because during war if half of carrier vehicles are lost or broke for a time, warfighting ability hampers until replenishment arrive to make up for shortfall.
Case in point, different EU countries armed forces suppose to have such high end systems but in short numbers. Which is why the balkans try to show off combined strength , but as soon as time comes to face a large foe, they all wet their pants at the prospect of fighting alone without a big power backing them up.
