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A)
7th
B)
6th
C)
5th
D)
4th

Correct Answer : Option (D) - 4th

INS Kavaratti, indigenously designed & built ASW Corvette, arrived at Batam, Indonesia to participate in the 4th edition of India-Indonesia Bilateral exercise Samudra Shakti-23 from 14-19 May 23.

* An Indian Navy Dornier Maritime Patrol aircraft and Chetak helicopter is also participating. The Indonesian Navy will be represented by KRI Sultan Iskandar Muda, CN 235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft and AS565 Panther Helicopter.

* Exercise Samudra Shakti is aimed at enhancing interoperability, jointness and mutual cooperation between both the navies.

* The Harbour phase will comprise Cross deck visits, professional Interactions, Subject Matter Expert Exchanges, and sports fixtures.

* During the Sea Phase, weapon firing, Helicopter Operations, Anti-submarine warfare & air defence exercises and boarding operations are planned.

* Samudra Shakti -23 will showcase the high level of interoperability between the two navies and their shared commitment towards peace and stability in the region...

Source : PIB

A)
32th
B)
35th
C)
37th
D)
40th

Correct Answer : Option (B) - 35th

The Indian Navy and the Royal Thai Navy conducted the 35th edition of the India-Thailand Coordinated Patrol (Indo-Thai CORPAT) from May 3 to May 10, 2023, in the Andaman Sea, the Ministry of Defence said.

* The bi-annual coordinated patrol aims to reinforce maritime linkages between the two countries and ensure the safety and security of the international trade route in the Indian Ocean.

* The Indian Naval Ship (INS) Kesari, an indigenously built LST (L), and His Thai Majesty’s Ship (HTMS) Saiburi, a Chao Phraya Class Frigate, along with Maritime Patrol Aircraft from both navies participated in the exercise.

* According to the ministry, the patrol helps in understanding and interoperability between the two navies and facilitates the prevention and suppression of unlawful activities such as Illegal Unreported Unregulated (IUU) fishing, drug trafficking, piracy, and armed robbery.

* It also enables the exchange of information to prevent smuggling, illegal immigration, and conduct search and rescue (SAR) operations at sea.

* The Indian Navy has been proactively engaging with countries in the Indian Ocean Region towards enhancing regional maritime security as part of the Government of India’s vision of SAGAR (Security And Growth for All in the Region).

* The 35th Indo-Thai CORPAT is another step towards consolidating inter-operability and forging strong bonds of friendship between India and Thailand.

* The Indian Navy and Royal Thai Navy have enjoyed a close and friendly relationship that has strengthened over the years, covering a wide spectrum of activities and interactions..

Source : Mint

A)
INS Sujata
B)
INSV Tarini
C)
INSV Mhadei
D)
INSV Sudarshini

Correct Answer : Option (B) - INSV Tarini

Indian Naval Sailing Vessel Tarini is currently on her return passage to India after a six-month-long transoceanic intercontinental expedition that commenced at Goa on November 17, 2022 and is scheduled to complete at the same venue on 24th May 2023.

During the expedition, Tarini sailed to Rio de Janerio, Brazil via Cape Town, South Africa, participating in Cape to Rio Race 2023, and she will complete an arduous 17,000 nautical miles passage when she touches the Indian shores again, a senior Navy official said.

Indian naval ship Tarini had set sail to Cape Town to participate in an ocean sailing voyage from the South African city to Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro.

The 50th edition of the race was to be flagged off from Cape Town on January 2 and culminate at the Brazilian city, according to the Indian Navy.

INSV Tarini is known for circumnavigating the globe with an all-women officer crew in the historic expedition titled Navika Sagar Parikrama that began in 2017.

The six members of Navika Sagar Parikrama during their 254-day expedition had covered 22,000 nautical miles, facing rough seas, scorching sun, biting cold and freezing winds with an unrelenting spirit.

Source : The Print

A)
INS Shardul
B)
INS Talwar
C)
INS Magar
D)
INS Vikramaditya

Correct Answer : Option (C) - INS Magar

Indian Naval Ship (INS) Magar, Landing Ship Tank (Large) amphibious assault ship of the Indian Navy decommissioned after 36 years of exceptional service to the nation. The Decommissioning ceremony was held at Southern Naval Command, Kochi on Saturday (6th May 2023).

* The ship was indigenously built by Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd, Kolkata. She was launched on 16 November 1984 and commissioned into the Indian Navy on 18 July 1987 by Admiral R H Tahiliani, then Chief of the Naval Staff.

* Commander D.B Roy was the first Commanding Officer. The ship has a displacement of 5,600 tonnes, a length of 125 metres, a beam of 17 metres.

* INS Magar is the lead ship of the Magar class amphibious warfare vessels of the Indian Navy.

* The ship has been a vital asset of the Indian Navy for over 30 years and participated in various naval operations ranging from amphibious operations, Fleet deployments and HADR missions.

* The major operations undertaken by the ship include Op Pawan, wherein she played a pivotal role in movement of logistics supplies to the area of operation, in support of the forces on ground. The ship has also played a key role in a number of HADR operations, the most noteworthy being during the December 2004 Tsunami wherein it was instrumental in evacuation of over 1,300 civilians from the affected areas.

* 'Magar’ has been named after a species of crocodile. The crest design depicts a Brown coloured crocodile with its mouth open swimming over White and Blue ocean waves. The aft portion of the crest shows a cut out of the thick and impenetrable armour like skin of the crocodile. The design has been taken from a Mathura sculpture of 1st Century AD, preserved in original in the Lucknow museum..

Source : AIR

A)
Bihar
B)
Rajasthan
C)
Punjab
D)
Maharashtra

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Bihar

Lieutenant Shivangi Singh is the first woman Rafale pilot to take part in Orion Exercise 2023. She hails from Fatehabad, Bihar and is considered a major fighter serving in the Indian Navy.

* The fourth and final phase of the Orion Military Exercise is being held between April 19 to May 05, 2023. This is a multilateral international exercise of the Indian Air Force.

About Shivangi Singh :

* Shivangi Singh, the Indian Air Force’s first woman pilot to fly the Rafale fighter aircraft is part of the IAF team which will take part in the multinational Exercise Orion in France. She is the Rafale squadron's first woman fighter pilot, and is set to make history by flying the multi-role air dominance aircraft.

* Shivangi Singh joined the Indian Air Force in 2017 and was commissioned into the IAF's second batch of women fighter pilots. Before flying Rafale, Shivangi also flew MiG-21 Bison aircraft.

* She hails from Varanasi and is currently undergoing conversion training and will shortly become a part of the IAF's Golden Arrows squadron based out of Ambala in Haryana.

* Shivangi Singh became the first woman fighter pilot to fly a Rafale after she was selected as a Rafale pilot following a stringent selection process in 2020.

A)
Changi Naval Base
B)
Washington Navy Yard
C)
Norfolk Naval Base
D)
Zapadnaya Litsa Naval Base

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Changi Naval Base

The maritime exercise of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) started on 2nd May to 4th May 2023, at "Changi Naval Base" of Singapore.

There are a total of 10 member states included in the ASEAN group while Australia was the first one to have been included in the membership.

This nautical event aims at enhancing intergovernmental collaborations and teamwork among various military groups...

Source : Economic Times

A)
HAL and Indian Navy
B)
ISRO and Indian Army
C)
DRDO and Indian Army
D)
DRDO and Indian Navy

Correct Answer : Option (D) - DRDO and Indian Navy

Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Indian Navy conducted the successful maiden test trial of ‘ADC-150’ from IL 38SD aircraft off the coast of Goa on April 27, 2023.

* ‘ADC-150’ is an indigenously designed and developed Air Droppable Container with 150 kg payload capacity.

* The trial was conducted to enhance the naval operational logistics capabilities by providing quick response to meet the requirement of critical engineering stores to ships (under distress), which are deployed more than 2,000 kms from the coast. It reduces the requirement of ships to come close to the coast to collect spares and stores.


* Three DRDO laboratories - Naval Science & Technological Laboratory (NSTL), Visakhapatnam; Aerial Delivery Research & Development Establishment (ADRDE), Agra and Aeronautical Development Establishment (ADE), Bengaluru - have been involved in the development of ADC-150 container. The crucial flight clearance certification was given by Regional Center for Military Airworthiness (RCMA), Kanpur headed by Centre for Military Airworthiness & Certification (CEMILAC), Bengaluru.

* Secretary, Department of Defence R&D & Chairman DRDO has congratulated the scientists and the Indian Navy for the successful trial of ADC-150.

Source : PIB

A)
4
B)
5
C)
6
D)
7

Correct Answer : Option (B) - 5

* For the first time, the Indian Army has appointed five women officers to its artillery regiment. After successfully completing their training at the Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai on Saturday (29th April 2023), the women officers joined the Regiment of Artillery.

* According to reports, the military sources said that the women officers who joined the Regiment of Artillery are Lt Mehak Saini, Lt Sakshi Dubey, Lt Aditi Yadav, Lt Pious Mudgil, and Lt Akanksha.

* Out of the five women officers, three are posted to units deployed along the borders with China and the other two in "challenging locations" near the frontier with Pakistan, reportedly..

Source : Outlook India

A)
5th
B)
6th
C)
7th
D)
8th

Correct Answer : Option (C) - 7th

The seventh edition of 'Ajeya Warrior 2023', a joint military exercise between India and the United Kingdom, began on Thursday (27th April 2023) at the UK's Salisbury Plains. The biennial training event will be held till May 11, 2023.

* The exercises are conducted alternatively in the UK and India and the last edition was held at Chaubatia, Uttarakhand in October 2021.

* The soldiers of the 2 Royal Gorkha Rifles from the UK and Indian Army troops from the Bihar Regiment are participating in the military exercise. The Indian Army contingent arrived at Brize Norton on April 26 in an Indian Air Force C-17 aircraft with indigenous weapons and equipment.

* The aim of the military exercise is to "build positive military relations, imbibe each other's best practices and promote the ability to operate together while undertaking company-level sub-conventional operations in urban and semi-urban environments under UN mandate", said the ministry of defence.

* "The scope of this exercise involves a Command Post Exercise (CPX) at the battalion level and company level field training exercise (FTX)".

* During the exercise, the participants from the two armies will engage in a variety of missions testing their operational acumen in various simulated situations and refining tactical drills which would help in developing interoperability between the two armies.

* The military exercise held in cooperation between the Indian Army and the British Army will further foster the bilateral relations between the two nations...

Source : India Today

A)
Nagastra
B)
MICA
C)
Astra Missile
D)
Novator K-100

Correct Answer : Option (A) - Nagastra

Solar Industries Nagpur on Friday (21st April 2023) said it had bagged an order to supply the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ‘Nagastra’ to the Indian Army, beating competitors from Israel and Poland.

A Solar Industries official said that with the government’s initiative to bring Atmanirbharta into ammunition and defence systems, the first indigenous Loiter Munition, Nagastra-1, has been designed and developed by Economics Explosives Ltd., a 100% subsidiary of Solar Industries Nagpur, in association with Z-Motion, Bangalore.

A model of ‘Nagastra -1’ loitering munition was recently displayed at the Army Commanders Conference held in New Delhi. The company said that Nagastra-1 with an indigenous content of more than 75%, has many world-class features.

It said that in ‘Kamikaze mode,’ it can neutralise any hostile threat with a GPS-enabled precision strike with an accuracy of 2 metres.

The fixed wing electric UAV has an endurance of 60 min with a man-in-loop range of 15 km and an autonomous mode range of 30 km.

In addition to day-and-night surveillance cameras, the loiter munition is equipped with a fragmenting warhead to defeat soft-skin targets. In case a target is not detected or if the mission is aborted, the loiter munition can be called back and made a soft landing with a parachute recovery mechanism, enabling it to be reused multiple times. It further said that the abort, recover, and reuse features of this loiter munition make this system superior to a similar class of systems developed by advanced countries.

Drone technology has proved to be a force multiplier in military operations, as evident from its application in various recent conflicts across the world, especially in the cases of Armenia-Azerbaijan, Syria, the strike on oilfields in Saudi Arabia, and the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.

“Even in our context, the recent incidents along the borders have seen a noticeable increase in drone-related incidents along the northern borders.” ‘Solar Industries have taken initiatives to develop a wide array of weaponised drones to neutralise various targets using gravity drop bombs, guided missiles or using them in a Kamikaze mode. This will go a long way to boost indigenous capability of using drones/ UAVs as war machinery,’ company official said..

Source : idrw