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Q1) As per information available, over 55 per cent of
India’s trade passes through South China Sea and
_____________?
A) Palk Strait
B) Malacca Straits
C) Gulf of Mannar
D) None of the above
Q2) ______is one of the largest troop contributor to UN missions
with presence in seven of the current 15 UN missions?
A) Indian Navy
B) Indian Air Force
C) Indian Army
D) Indian Coast Guard
Q3) More than what percent of the trade by volume and 77 per
cent by value are transported over the seas??
A) 60 %
B) 70 %
C) 90 %
D) 77 %
Coast Guard patrol vessel commissioned at Karaikal The patrol vessel ‘Charlie-435’ equipped with modern navigation and communication systems was commissioned by Puducherry Chief Minister V Narayanasamy
The vessel would strengthen coastal security between Chennai and Kanyakumari patrol vessel would be of great help in rescuing fishermen
Army Air Defence Corps Celebrated Its 25th Raising Day 25th Raising Day of Army Air Defence was celebrated on 10th January 2018. motto, ‘AKASHE SHATRUN JAHI’ (Kill The Enemy in Sky)
The Corps of Army Air Defence was raised on 10 Jan 1994 ARPAN 3.0: Government rolled out new automation software for Defence Security Corps Defence Ministry has rolled out ARPAN 3.0 (Army Record Office Process Automation 3.0), a new automation software for Defence Security Corps personnel to ease personal documentation and all issues related to their progression.
The software was jointly developed by Army Software Development Centre (ASDC) and Tech Mahindra, using state-of-the-art web-based technology.
Facts :
ARPAN 3.0 will provide over 12 lakh soldiers of Indian Army easy access to their service records including pay and leave details and transfer and postings among others.
INS TARASA commissioned into Indian Navy.
INS Tarasa (T94), the fourth and last ship in series of Water Jet Fast Attack Craft (WJFAC) was commissioned into Indian Navy at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai.
It is an improved variant of Car Nicobar-class high-speed offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) built indegenously by Kolkata (West Bengal) based Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE), for the Indian Navy.
It has been named after the picturesque island in the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago in Bay of Bengal.
INS Tarasa will be based at Mumbai under operational control of Western Naval Command.
Background WJFACs are ideally suited and used for interception of fast-moving surface
craft. INS Tarasa is fourth and last of follow-on WJFAC’s Water Jet Fast Attack
Craft indegenously built GRSE, Kolkat Indigenously developed weapon-locating radar SWATHI handed to Army
The Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) formally handed over an
indigenously developed Weapon Locating Radar (WLR) system dubbed as ‘SWATHI’ to
Indian Army.
Developed by DRDO’s Electronics & Radar Development Establishment (LRDE). It has
a range of 50 km which brings all artillery guns presently in service worldwide under its
coverage.
Performs two roles i.e. Weapon Location Mode for enemy Artillery and Direction of Own
artillery Fire (DOOAF) Mode for Artillery
Q4) Which of the following HADR (Humanitarian Assistance and
Disaster relief) mission was successfully undertaken by the Indian
Navy?
A) Operation Rahat
B) Operation Sukoon
C) Operation Neer
D) All of the above
Q5) Who among the following created history by becoming the
first women pilots to be commissioned into the fighter stream
after passing out from the IAF Academy?
A) Avani Chaturvedi
B) Bhawana Kanth
C) All of the Mentioned
D) Mohana Singh
Q6) Where is Indian Air Force Academy located?
A) Andhra Pradesh
B) Telangana
C) Dehradun
D) Maharashtra
Q7) Which among the following is not the commissioned rank in the
Indian Army?
A) Major
B) Lieutenant Colonel
C) Sub Lieutenant
D) Brigadier
Q8) Which among the following is the commissioned rank in
the Indian Navy?
A) Commodore
B) Commander
C) Rear Admiral
D) All of the above
India’s First Homegrown Carrier to Be Ready By 2020
India’s first domestically built aircraft carrier, the future
INS Vikrant, designated IAC-1, will be ready for induction into
service by October 2020, a senior Indian Navy official said this
month during a media briefing in New Delhi.
The Vikrant, the lead ship of the Indian Navy’s Vikrant-class, the
first aircraft carriers to be designed and built in India under the so- called Indigenous Aircraft Carrier (IAC) program, was officially
launched in August 2013 and relaunched in June 2015
A total of six submarines are to be built at the MDL in collaboration with
French shipbuilding major Naval Group (formerly DCNS).
The Indian Navy’s third state-of-the-art Scorpene class submarine, INS Karanj, was launched by Reena Lanba, wife of Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sunil Lanba
Six Scorpene class submarines are being built under Project 75 by the
Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDSL), Mumbai, under a $3.75 billion
technology transfer signed in October 2005 with the Naval Group of France
The Scorpene class is the Navy’s first modern conventional submarine series in almost two decades, since INS Sindhushastra was procured from Russia in July 2000.
• The first two Scorpene submarines — INS Kalavari and INS Khanderi. INS Kalvari, the first to be launched, was commissioned in December 2017 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• INS Khanderi, which launched in January 2017 Remaining three submarines — Vela, Vagir and Vagsheer.
Indian Navy decommissions warships INS Nirbhik and INS Nirghat after serving the Navy for 30 and 28 years respectively. The warships, in their new avatar, were commissioned at Poti, in
the erstwhile USSR on December 21, 1987 and December 15, 1989 respectively.
They participated in many operations including Op Parakram and Vijay and were deployed off Gujarat on many occasions for patrolling
Indian Navy’s patrol aircraft ‘Albatross’ decommissioned the Soviet-origin Tupolev-142M aircraft, which kept an eye on enemy warships and submarines in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) for almost 30 years, was decommissioned
It was said to be world’s largest and fastest turboprop aircraft and is named the ‘Albatross’.
The TU-142Ms are being replaced by the 12 Poseidon-8I long-range patrol aircraft acquired from the US for $3.2 billion.
INS Sindhurakshak decommissioned
India had bought INS Sindhurakshak in 1997 for $113 million and later
upgraded it for $156 million (around Rs 800 crore).
INS Sindhurakshak (Sanskrit, for Protector of the Seas) was a Russianmade
Kilo-class 877EKM (Sindhughosh-class) dieselelectric
submarine of the Indian Navy
Two minesweepers of the Indian Navy — INS Karwar and INS Kakinada — were decommissioned after being in service for over 30 years.
INS Karwar was the first of the ‘Natya’ class minesweepers acquired from the erstwhile Soviet Union. The ship was commissioned on July 14, 1986.
INS Kakinada was the second of the class a nd was commissioned on December 23, 1986.
Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has launched a second 97 m offshore patrol vessel (OPV) on order for the Indian Coast Guard (ICG).
The platform, which is part of a contract for seven OPVs signed between the Indian government and L&T in March 2015, was launched on 20 January at Kattupalli, near Chennai.
The vessel has been named Vijaya . First-of-class Vikram was launched in October 2017, and is currently undergoing sea trials.
The 2,100-tonne OPV has an overall beam of 15 m and a hull draught of 3.6 m. It has a top speed of 26 kt, and a standard range of 5,000 n miles at cruising speed of 12 kt.
Q9) Indian Coast Guard was constituted in which year?
A) 1977
B) 1980
C) 1967
D) 1984
Q10) Which among the following Armed Forces exams are conducted by UPSC ?
A) National Defence Academy (NDA) and Naval Academy (NA)
B) Combined Defence Services Examination (CDSE)
C) Both A & B
D) Neither A nor B
Q11) Who is the Director General of the National Cadet Corps?
A) General B S Sahrawat
B) Lt Gen Vinod Vashisht
C) Lt Gen Vinod Vashisht
D) None of the above
Q12) Name the Company that was incorporated in 1970 under the Ministry of Defence, is pioneer in the manufacture of AntiTank Guided Missiles (ATGM)?
A) Mishra Dhatu Nigam Ltd
B) Bharat Earth Movers Limited
C) Bharat Dynamics Limited
D) Hindustan Aeronautics Limited
Q13) Who is responsible for carrying out detailed technical evaluation of weapons and equipment before those are inducted in the Army?
A) Directorate General of Aeronautical Quality Assurance
B) Directorate General of Quality Assurance
C) Defence Research & Development Organization
D) None of the above
Q14) What is the full form of NIRDESH ?
A) National Institute for Research and Development in Defence Ships
B) National Institute for Research and Development in Device Shipbuilding
C) National Institute for Research and Development in Defence Shipbuilding
D) National Institute for Researching and Developing in Deep Sea
Q15) What is the motto of Defence Research & Development Organization?
A) Service Before Self
B) Unity and Discipline
C) We Protect
D) Strength’s Origin is in Science
Q16) Where was the 8th biennial ‘National Maritime Search and Rescue Workshop and Exercise’ between India & Japan was conducted?
A) Pune
B) Vizag
C)Chennai
D) Vishakhapatnam
Q17) Who is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Navy?
A) Defence Minister
B) President
C) Prime Minister of India
D) Chief of Naval Staff
Q18 ) Which among the following is not the Wartime gallantry award?
A) Param Vir Chakra
B) Maha Vir Chakra
C) Vir Chakra
D) Shaurya Chakra
Q19) The Headquarters of the Eastern Naval Command of the Indian Navy is located at which one of the following places?
A) Kalimpong
B) Visakhapatnam
C) Kollam
D) Cuttack
Q20) Indian Navy commissioned its first advanced Light Helicopter Squadron at Kochi in November 2013. What is the name of the helicopter?
A. Chetak
B. Dhruv
C. Rudra
D. Cheetah
Q21) Which one of the following is not a Command of the Indian Army?
A) South-Western Command
B) South-Eastern Command
C) Army Training Command
D) Central Command
Q22) Andaman and Nicobar Command
A) A Command of the Indian Army
B) A Tri-service theater command of the Indian Armed Forces
C) A Regional Command of the Indian Coast Guard
D) A joint Command of the Indian Navy and Indian Air Force
Q23) Who was 1st Indian Commander in Chief of Indian Army?
A) Field Marshal Kodandera M. Cariappa
B) General PN Thapar
C) General JN Choudhary
D) General JN Choudhary
Q24) The rank of Captain of the Indian Navy is equivalent to which one of the following?
A) Captain of the Indian Army
B) Group Captain in the Indian Air Force
C) Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army
D) Wing Commander of the Indian Air Force
Q25) Master Chief Petty Officer is a rank in the
A. Indian Air Force
B. Military Engineering Service
C. The Army Aviation Corps
D. Indian Navy
Q26) Indian Army day is observed every year on
A) 16th Jan
B) 15th Jan
C) 17th jan
D) 20th Jan
Q27) Which was the India’s first aircraft carrier ?
A) INS Vikramaditya
B) INS Viraat
C) INS Vikrant
D) INS Tarini
Q28) Lamitye is a bilateral military exercise between India & ___________?
A) Japan
B) Myanmar
C) Seychelles
D) Bhutan
Q29) Operation Parakram was launched by
A) Indian Air force
B) Indian Coast Guard
C) Indian Navy
D) India Army
Q30)The first military exercise VINBAX-2018 between IndiaVietnam was conducted at ?
A) Jabalpur
B) Chennai
C) Jaipur
D) Kollam
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