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[[File:Pinaka 214 MM Multiple Barrel Rocket Launcher System passes through the Rajpath during the 66th Republic Day Parade 2015, in New Delhi on January 26, 2015.jpg|thumb|Pinaka Missile system built by Solar Industries]]
Solar has developed several defence products - high energy materials (HMX, RDX, TNT & compounds), composite propellants for Pinaka, Akash, Brahmos, etc., explosive filling of ammunitions, mines, multimode grenades and warheads, fuses, pyros and ignitors and rocket/missile integration.<ref name="LMINT">https://mintgenie.livemint.com/news/markets/solarinds-exploding-its-way-to-success-151671535537236</ref>
Solar has developed several defence products - high energy materials (HMX, RDX, TNT & compounds), composite propellants for Pinaka, Akash, Brahmos, etc., explosive filling of ammunitions, mines, multimode grenades and warheads, fuses, pyros and ignitors and rocket/missile integration.<ref name="LMINT">https://mintgenie.livemint.com/news/markets/solarinds-exploding-its-way-to-success-151671535537236</ref>



Revision as of 21:09, 5 October 2023

Solar Industries is a market leader in the Indian industrial explosives market and other Industrial Explosives.[1]it has diversified into making defence explosives also and emerged as the leading private player in making ammunition.[2]

History

SIL started as a manufacturer of explosives for the mining industry. Over the next decades, it has diversified into making defence explosives also and emerged as the leading private player in making ammunition.[2]

Products

Pinaka Missile system built by Solar Industries

Solar has developed several defence products - high energy materials (HMX, RDX, TNT & compounds), composite propellants for Pinaka, Akash, Brahmos, etc., explosive filling of ammunitions, mines, multimode grenades and warheads, fuses, pyros and ignitors and rocket/missile integration.[3]

Solar Industries Nagpur on Friday said it has bagged an order to supply unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) 'Nagastra' to the Indian Army, beating competitors from Israel and Poland.The first indigenous Loiter Munition (LM), Nagastra-1, has been designed and developed by Economics Explosives Ltd (EEL), a 100 per cent subsidiary of Solar Industries Nagpur, in association with Z-Motion, Bangalore.It said that in a 'Kamikaze mode' it can neutralise any hostile threat with GPS enabled precision strike with an accuracy of 2 m.[4]

Solar invested in Skyroot Aerospace, which became the first Indian private company to demonstrate the capability to build a homegrown rocket engine.[3]