Why Indian Armed forces need LORA when they have Pralay?

The one missile which was center of attraction of Aero India show was LORA missile from Israel. It is a short-range “quasi-ballistic” missile system. The missile follows a ballistic trajectory but performs random or programmed evasive maneuvers similar to Pralay missile. As per Janes report, Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) will jointly produce the Long-Range Artillery (LORA) surface-to-surface missile system in India. It was also reported that the LORA missile has already been inducted with Indian Navy.

So, the question is why India wants to procure LORA from Israel when there is indigenous option such as BrahMos and Pralay? Before that, lets quickly understand the capabilities of LORA missiles.

LORA Capabilities

LORA is all weather surface to surface missile having a range between 90 to 430 KM. The missile has a length of 5.2m and diameter of 624mm. The missile weighs around 1600 kg. The missile is powered by single stage solid rocket motor and is canister launched. The missile features variety of warhead such as Multi-Purpose, Penetration and Blast Fragmentation warheads.

Each battery of LORA consists of a battery command post, 4 ground launchers and reload vehicles. Each ground launchers consist of 4 LORA missile. In summary each LORA battery consists of 16 ready to fire missiles and 16 missiles in ready to reload condition via the 4 reload vehicles. The missiles can be reloaded in less than 60 mins.

Each LORA battalion consists of 3 batteries of LORA. The fire power of each LORA battalion is 48 missiles in ready to launch condition and 48 missiles in ready to load condition. The entire 48 missiles can be launched in less than 2 minutes.

LORA has excellent shoot and scout capability. It can be ready to ready to fire from motion in 10 minutes and scoot 3 minutes from Fire to movement.

The missile has angle of attack from 60-90 degrees and 360-degree coverage. The missile uses GPS/INS for guidance and has CEP of 10m. It can be launched even from Naval platforms.

Why LORA when India has Pralay?

India’s indigenously developed Pralay is having range between 150-400 km. A 12X12 launcher can be equipped with 2 Pralay missile and an 8X8 Launcher with one Pralay missile. It has a CEP of 10m and can be brought into launch condition within 10 minutes. The missile weights around 5 ton. The missile uses inertial navigation for mid-course and MMW seeker for terminal homing.

If you compare Pralay with LORA, the later is much lighter & cheaper. While Pralay is more of a tactical ballistic missile, LORA is like ATACMS (Army TACtical Missile System) which can be fired from HIMARS. LORA missile launcher has much higher number of missiles in ready to fire condition. Low cost, lighter and better saturation attack capability of LORA makes it potent choice for Indian Armed forces. At present there is no indigenous option available but Solar industry is working on Maheshwarastra 1 & 2 which could match up the capability of LORA.

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