Defence GK Questions 2026

KONKAN is described as the yearly bilateral maritime exercise between India and the United Kingdom, held with the Royal Navy, and the current edition is being conducted in the waters off Plymouth on the British coast in a harbour phase and a sea phase.

The Ministry of Defence stated that the guided missile stealth frigate INS Trishul had reached Plymouth in the United Kingdom, where it is scheduled to exercise with the Royal Navy in KONKAN-26.

Himansh was established in 2016 in the Spiti area of Himachal Pradesh, in the upper reaches of the Chandra basin, so that scientists can measure the mass balance, melt and movement of Himalayan glaciers through the year instead of only on short visits.

India was the first country to be granted Pioneer Investor status by the International Seabed Authority, in 1987, and holds an exploration area of seventy-five thousand square kilometres in the Central Indian Ocean Basin for polymetallic nodules, which are lumps on the deep seabed rich in manganese, nickel, cobalt and…

This autonomous institute of the Ministry of Earth Sciences designs and builds India's ocean engineering hardware, from desalination plants and moored buoys to deep-sea mining systems, and it is developing Matsya-6000 along with the systems that will support the dives.

Matsya-6000 takes its name from the design depth of six thousand metres and is built to carry a crew of three inside a titanium personnel sphere.

The Cabinet approved the Deep Ocean Mission in June 2021 with this ministry as the implementing agency and an estimated cost of about 4,077 crore rupees spread over five years in phases.

The Antarctic Treaty was signed on 1 December 1959 by twelve nations that had been active in the continent during the International Geophysical Year, and it came into force in 1961.

A marine biologist, he led the first Indian scientific expedition to Antarctica in 1981, a voyage that established India's presence on the continent and paved the way for accession to the Antarctic Treaty and for Consultative Party status in 1983.

The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research is at Vasco-da-Gama in Goa and works under the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

Himadri was opened in 2008 at Ny-Alesund on the Svalbard archipelago, which belongs to Norway. Svalbard is governed by a treaty that allows the nationals of its parties to carry on research and economic activity there, which is what makes an international research village at Ny-Alesund possible.

Bharati was commissioned in 2012 at the Larsemann Hills on the coast of east Antarctica, roughly three thousand kilometres from Maitri.

Maitri was commissioned in 1989 on the rocky Schirmacher Oasis, a narrow ice-free strip, next to the freshwater lake named Priyadarshini.

It was built during the Indian expedition of 1983 to 1984 in Queen Maud Land and was India's first permanent base on the continent.

The long-standing guideline of the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, formed in 1993 and including ISRO among its member agencies, is that a spacecraft or upper stage leaving the low Earth orbit protected region should be de-orbited, or placed in an orbit from which it will re-enter, within twenty-five years…

Its full name is the Convention on International Liability for Damage Caused by Space Objects, and it fixes responsibility on the state that launches or procures the launch of a space object.

A communication satellite nearing the end of its life keeps a small reserve of fuel to raise itself out of the crowded geostationary ring into a higher orbit where it cannot drift back into a working slot or collide with an active satellite.

In February 2009 the working American communication satellite Iridium 33 and the defunct Russian military communication satellite Kosmos 2251 struck each other over Siberia at a relative speed of several kilometres per second.

NETRA stands for Network for Space Objects Tracking and Analysis. It is ISRO's programme to build radar, optical telescope and control centre capability for space situational awareness, so that India can detect, track and catalogue objects in orbit and warn its own satellites about possible close approaches instead of depending…

In Mission Shakti an interceptor developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation was launched from Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Island off the Odisha coast and destroyed India's own Microsat-R satellite in low Earth orbit at a height of about 283 kilometres.