Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh, the country’s first Rafale pilot, turned into part of the Indian Air Force (IAF) tableau that featured withinside the Republic Day parade on Wednesday. She joined the IAF’s fighter move in 2017 and flew the MiG-21 Bison plane earlier than being published to a Rafale squadron primarily based totally in Ambala.
Only a handful of females— much less than 20 — had been commissioned as fighter pilots thus far after the authorities released a scheme for his or her induction into the IAF’s fight move in 2015, a watershed withinside the air pressure’s history.
Shivangi turned into her teenager while her grandfather drove her to an air pressure museum for the primary time, the fateful journey marking the start of an endless romance with aviation for the younger and impressionable girl.
Apart from Rafales, IAF’s female pilots are running the MiG-21 Bison, Sukhoi-30 and MiG-29 fighters.
There are extra than 9,000 female presently serving the army, military and air pressure, with the offerings giving them extra possibilities to enhance profession progression. The headcount of female withinside the navy has improved nearly threefold over the past seven years.
While female have now been allowed to serve on warships; tanks and fight positions withinside the infantry are nevertheless no-move zones. They had been allowed to sign up for the military outdoor the scientific move for the primary time in 1992.
In December, the Indian Navy stated it turned into going beforehand with a plan to present female officials extra possibilities to serve aboard warships along their male counterparts, with numerous female already assigned to frontline ships running withinside the extensive expanse of the Indian Ocean Region.
Also, the National Defence Academy is about to induct its first batch of ladies cadets in June 2022. The Supreme Court opened the doorways of the academy to ladies in a landmark order in October 2021.
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