Who presided over the golden jubilee seminar of 13 Base Repair Depot, and of which command is the officer the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief?
- A.Air Marshal Yalla Umesh, Maintenance Command
- B.Air Marshal Yalla Umesh, Western Air Command
- C.The Chief of the Air Staff, Training Command
- D.The Chief of Defence Staff, Strategic Forces Command
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The correct answer is Air Marshal Yalla Umesh, Maintenance Command. He is the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Maintenance Command, the command under which base repair depots function, and he presided over the seminar at the Manekshaw Centre in New Delhi. Option B keeps the officer's name but moves him to an operational command, which is the trap in this question, since repair and overhaul units belong to the maintenance side of the air force rather than to a regional operational command. Option C and option D name the service chief and the Chief of Defence Staff with commands they do not hold, and neither presided over this event. Also worth noting is who attended: senior military leadership, veterans of the depot, DRDO, academia and defence industry partners, a mix that reflects the seminar's aim of pushing indigenous testing, repair and life cycle support.
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Practice Questions
In which year was 13 Base Repair Depot of the Indian Air Force established?
- A.1965
- B.1971
- C.1976
- D.1984
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The correct answer is 1976, which is why the unit's completion of fifty years of service was marked in November 2026.
Read the full explanation →The golden jubilee seminar of 13 Base Repair Depot was held on which theme?
- A.Air Defence 2040: Sensors, Networks and Sovereign Sustainment
- B.Atmanirbhar Bharat in Aerospace Manufacturing
- C.Vision 2047: Skies of Self-Reliance
- D.Networked Warfare and Quantum Readiness
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The theme names the three strands the seminar took up, the sensors that detect, the networks that link them, and the home-grown ability to keep the whole system running.
Read the full explanation →Which clean energy technology was successfully demonstrated for powering Indian Air Force radars?
- A.Solar thermal towers
- B.Hydrogen fuel cells
- C.Small modular nuclear reactors
- D.Compressed biogas generators
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The correct answer is hydrogen fuel cells, demonstrated for powering air force radars in partnership with the National Green Hydrogen Mission and NTPC, and presented at the seminar as a milestone in sustainable radar operations.
Read the full explanation →AMOS, with whose representatives the Army Chief will interact during the Czech visit, is which organisation?
- A.A Czech private defence manufacturer of radars
- B.The Inter-governmental Defence Cooperation Agency
- C.A NATO military exercise conducted in central Europe
- D.The Czech national space research agency
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The Army Chief is to meet its representatives, along with the Defence and Security Industry Association and leading Czech defence manufacturers, to explore where the two countries can work together in defence technology and industry.
Read the full explanation →Who is Lieutenant General Petr Cepelka, named in the Army Chief's programme in the Czech Republic?
- A.Minister of Defence of the Czech Republic
- B.First Deputy Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Chief of Defence
- C.Commandant of the Defence University, Brno
- D.Director of the NATO CBRN Defence Centre of Excellence
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The correct answer is First Deputy Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Chief of Defence, the appointment held by Lieutenant General Petr Cepelka, with whom the Indian Army Chief holds discussions at the General Staff Headquarters in Prague.
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