First Fleet Support Ship FSS-1 to Be Launched at Visakhapatnam

The correct answer is Hindustan Shipyard Limited, Visakhapatnam. The yard is building all five Fleet Support Ships ordered by the Indian Navy, and FSS-1 will be launched there on 6 October 2026 into the waters of the Bay of Bengal, eighteen months after its steel was first cut. The same ceremony will see the keel of FSS-5 laid and two yard facilities opened, the upgraded Slipway-4 and a 300-tonne Goliath Crane, which together raise the yard's building limit to vessels of 45,000 DWT. The other three options are all real Indian defence shipyards, which is what makes them useful distractors, but none of them holds the Fleet Support Ship order. Fix the pairing in memory: Fleet Support Ships go with Hindustan Shipyard Limited at Visakhapatnam.

The correct answer is 43,500 tonnes. Each of the five Fleet Support Ships is a vessel of this size, built to replenish warships while they remain at sea by passing across fuel, stores and provisions, so that a task force can keep operating without returning to harbour. That is what extends the Navy's endurance and reach across the Indian Ocean Region. Candidates should not confuse this figure with the separate capacity figure in the same announcement: the upgraded Slipway-4, working with the new Goliath Crane of 300 tonnes, allows the shipyard to build and launch ships of up to 45,000 DWT, which is the yard's limit and not the displacement of this class. Options A, B and D are not figures from this announcement.

The correct answer is FSS-5. At the Visakhapatnam ceremony the Raksha Mantri will launch the first ship of the class and, on the same day, lay the keel of the fifth and last ship, which marks the programme's move towards series production rather than one-off construction. Keel laying is the formal start of a hull's assembly, so having the first ship afloat and the fifth begun shows the whole order is under way together. Options A, B and C are the intervening ships of the class; their keels are not the ones being laid at this event. Remember the pair of milestones from one day: FSS-1 launched, FSS-5 keel laid, alongside the inauguration of the upgraded Slipway-4 and the 300-tonne Goliath Crane.