In which country is the ninth edition of the IBSAMAR naval exercise being held?

The correct answer is 2008. IBSAMAR has been held once in two years since that year, under the India-Brazil-South Africa framework, and has become a settled platform for joint training and for sharing operational practices among the three navies. Because the series runs on a two-year cycle from that starting point, the ninth edition falls in the current year, which is a useful cross-check for aspirants. Option A is wrong because the naval exercise series had not yet begun then. Option C is wrong because by that year the exercise was already several editions old; counting back from the ninth edition on a biennial cycle rules it out. Option D is also ruled out by the same arithmetic, since a start in that year could not produce nine editions by now. The grouping behind the exercise, IBSA, is the one formed by India, Brazil and South Africa.

The correct answer is Stronger Together Towards a Shared Future in the Maritime Domain. This is the declared theme of the ninth edition of the India-Brazil-South Africa Maritime Exercise, which aims at collective maritime security and at preparing the three navies to deal with challenges at sea. The edition is significant for cooperation and security in the Indian Ocean Region. The other three options are plausible-sounding slogans of the kind used for naval events, but none of them is the theme of this exercise, and a candidate should match the theme to the edition number rather than to a general phrase about the sea. The drills in this edition span surface warfare, anti-air warfare, anti-submarine warfare, naval air operations, maritime interdiction, Visit Board Search and Seizure, anti-piracy operations, search and rescue, and damage control and firefighting.

The correct answer is Air Marshal Stephen Chappell, Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Australian Air Force, who chaired the second session. That session treated air power as an instrument of national power and covered deterrence, coercion, escalation control and human capital development. Option A, Air Chief Marshal AP Singh, is the Chief of the Air Staff of the Indian Air Force, and his role at the seminar was the inaugural address. Option B, Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari, a former Chief of the Air Staff, chaired the first working session, which dealt with the transformation of air warfare in the 21st century and the shift from air superiority to battlespace control. Option C, Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor, is the Director General of CAPSS and gave the welcome address.

The correct answer is 2001. CAPSS was set up in that year as an autonomous research and analysis body working on national security, nuclear and aerospace questions, which is why the year 2026 marks its Silver Jubilee. A silver jubilee falls twenty-five years after founding, so the arithmetic itself rules out the other three options. Option A would make the body thirty-five years old in 2026, option C would make it fifteen, and option D only five, none of which fits a silver jubilee. Its Director General, Air Marshal Nagesh Kapoor (Retd.), delivered the welcome address at the seminar and spoke about the role of air power in contemporary conflicts and the part CAPSS plays in developing thinking on it.

The correct answer is Exercise Tarang Shakti-26. The seminar was held on 9 October 2026 at the Air Force Auditorium, Subroto Park, New Delhi, while this multinational flying exercise was under way, so the participating teams moved from flying sorties to a conceptual discussion on doctrine. The other three options name air exercises that are familiar in general studies but were not the setting for this seminar. The point of holding the seminar alongside the exercise was to carry fresh operational experience into debate: the theme was the central role of air power in the evolving battlespace, and representatives of partner air forces from every continent attended along with senior officers, academics, industry and the media. The organisers were the Centre for Aerospace Power and Strategic Studies and the Indian Air Force.