Defence technology MCQ — 2 Practice Questions with Answers

Explanation

DRDO's facility for testing and evaluating Indian Navy sonar systems was made operational at the Naval Physical and Oceanographic Laboratory in Kochi. Kochi is therefore the city tied to this defence-technology current-affairs item. Vizag has a major naval presence, but this facility was not launched there. Port Blair is strategically important for the Andaman and Nicobar region, not the location asked here. Thiruvananthapuram is a Kerala capital and technology centre, but the relevant DRDO laboratory was in Kochi.

Explanation

High Mobility Artillery Rocket System is an American multiple-launch rocket system produced for the United States military, especially for mobile precision fire support. Therefore, USA is the correct country of development. Japan, India and China have their own defence programmes and missile or rocket systems, but they did not develop HIMARS. The question asks specifically about this named artillery rocket system, not about rocket artillery in general, so the country tied to the system's development is the United States.