Which HAL division is marking the delivery of its 2,000th aero-engine?

The correct answer is Rs 218 crore. That is the investment behind the second Shakti engine production line being highlighted at the Koraput event, and the added capacity is intended for indigenous helicopter platforms, named in the announcement as the Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter and the Prachand Light Combat Helicopter. A second line matters because output from a single line sets a ceiling on how many engines can be delivered in a year, and helicopter production cannot run ahead of its engines. The other three figures are not from this announcement. Keep the two numbers of the day apart: two thousand is the count of engines delivered since the plant began, while two hundred and eighteen crore rupees is the money put into the new line.

The correct answer is the Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter and the Prachand Light Combat Helicopter, both indigenous rotary-wing platforms named in the announcement as the users of the growing Shakti engine output. The second line at Koraput, set up with an investment of Rs 218 crore, exists to meet their rising requirement. Option A lists fighter aircraft, which use different engines altogether. Options C and D name transport and unmanned platforms that are not tied to the Shakti engine in this announcement. The wider point the ministry makes is that building propulsion systems at home is what moves India from being a buyer of defence equipment to a designer, developer and manufacturer of defence systems, since an engine import dependency can hold back an otherwise indigenous aircraft.

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.

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 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.