Exercise Veer Guardian-2026 is being conducted between the Indian Air Force and the air force of which country?

The correct answer is Air Force Station Jodhpur. The Ministry of Defence has said that the Indian Air Force and the Japan Air Self Defence Force are flying the Veer Guardian-2026 exercise at this station in Rajasthan, and the programme runs from 9 September 2026 to 22 September 2026. Option A, Hindon, is a large transport base near Delhi, but it is not the venue named for this drill. Option B, Kalaikunda, in West Bengal, has hosted air exercises in the past, which makes it a plausible distractor, yet the announcement does not place Veer Guardian-2026 there. Option D, Sulur, in Tamil Nadu, is associated with Tejas operations, so an aspirant who remembers only the Tejas may be tempted, but the venue is still Jodhpur. Always fix the venue with the name of the exercise while revising, because the paper setter tests exactly this pairing.

The correct answer is F-2A. The announcement states that Japan is taking part with its F-2A fighter aircraft, while the Indian side has fielded a mix of front-line fighters, namely the indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, the Su-30 MKI and the Rafale. Option B, the F-15J, is a fighter in Japanese service and therefore a very plausible distractor, but it is not the type named for this exercise. Option C, the F-35A, is a fifth generation aircraft that appears often in news about Japan, yet again it is not the aircraft listed for Veer Guardian-2026. Option D, the Mitsubishi T-4, is a trainer aircraft and not a front-line fighter, so it does not fit a combat drill of this kind. For revision, hold the four aircraft of this exercise together: Tejas, Su-30 MKI and Rafale for India, and the F-2A for Japan.

The correct answer is Mutual and Holistic Advancement for Security and Growth Across Regions. Rajnath Singh used the expansion while speaking at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence, explaining that the words mutual and holistic carry the weight of the idea because they point to synergy, cooperation and collaboration between partners. He placed the India and Sri Lanka maritime partnership inside this vision of the Prime Minister. Options A, C and D are invented expansions built from familiar maritime words such as harbours, anchorage, shipping and routes, and each sounds convincing to a candidate who half remembers the acronym. That is exactly the trap: acronyms of this kind are asked precisely because the expansions are easy to approximate and hard to recall exactly. Learn it word by word, and pair it with the other phrase from the same speech, Vishwa Mitra, which the Raksha Mantri used to describe India's role in its shared neighbourhood.

The correct answer is the L70 air defence guns of the Sri Lankan Air Force. Six of these guns are to be upgraded under a grant from the Government of India, and the guns themselves had been supplied to Sri Lanka by India earlier, which is why the upgrade falls to India. The stated purpose is to strengthen the air defence architecture protecting critical assets in Sri Lanka. Option A, Dornier aircraft, and option C, offshore patrol vessels, are plausible because India has supplied maritime platforms to Sri Lanka in the past and maritime cooperation dominated the visit, but neither was the subject of an MoU that day. Option D, radar stations of the Army, mixes the right idea of air surveillance with the wrong service and the wrong equipment. The second MoU exchanged during the visit was on cooperation between the National Cadet Corps and the National Defence Colleges of the two countries, which is the other half of the answer examiners test.

The correct answer is Mr Anura Kumara Dissanayake, the President of Sri Lanka, on whom the Raksha Mantri called in Colombo. In that meeting the President assured India that Sri Lankan territory would never be used for activities hostile to Indian security interests, and he thanked India for the relief provided under Operation Sagar Bandhu. Option B, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, is the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, and Rajnath Singh met her separately on the same day, describing her as a symbol of women's empowerment; she is the most tempting distractor because both meetings happened within hours of each other. Option C, Mr Aruna Jayasekara, is the Deputy Minister of Defence, who was present when the Raksha Mantri spoke at the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defence. Option D names a former Sri Lankan leader who holds no office in this release. Keep the pair fixed in memory: Dissanayake as President, Amarasuriya as Prime Minister.