Defence Current Affairs Quiz: 5 November 2026

The ship is an indigenously built guided missile stealth frigate belonging to the Eastern Fleet of the Indian Navy, and it berthed at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan on 4 November 2026 for the multilateral naval exercise MALABAR 2026.

INS Tarkash completed its call at that port on 3 November 2026.

DRDO fired the missile from that island at about 1110 hrs, and the range instruments that confirmed the result were deployed by the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, which is also in Odisha.

This was the unifying theme of IPRD-2026, the Indian Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, which was examined through five professional thematic sessions together with senior-level interactions meant to find practical routes to regional maritime cooperation.

MALABAR brings these four navies together so that the participating maritime forces can sharpen operational coordination, strengthen interoperability and exchange professional expertise through engagements held in harbour and then at sea.

The ship took part in the events held for it on 2 November 2026, and separately hosted a cultural exchange on board to mark Aapravasi Diwas 2026, at which the Minister of Education and Human Resource of Mauritius, Mahend Gungapersad, was the Guest of Honour and India's High Commissioner Anurag…

The correct answer is Research Centre Imarat, Hyderabad, which developed Pralay within the country along with other DRDO laboratories.

The Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue is described as the Navy's annual apex-level international strategic dialogue, and the 2026 edition was organised in association with the National Maritime Foundation.

The Ministry of Defence stated that the participation of INS Sahyadri in MALABAR 2026 is in consonance with the MAHASAGAR vision, under which India frames its maritime engagement with partner countries.

After its stay in harbour, INS Tarkash conducted a PASSEX, which is a passage exercise held when ships meet at sea, with CGS Valiant, and then undertook joint surveillance of the Exclusive Economic Zone together with the Mauritius Coast Guard, with a Dornier aircraft providing support from the air.

The correct answer is quasi-ballistic missile, the class to which Pralay belongs.

This is the expansion of MAHASAGAR, the maritime vision to which the dialogue was said to have given clearer expression.

The correct answer is the Defence Secretary, Rajesh Kumar Singh, whose Valedictory Address brought the three-day conference to a close.