Women fighter pilots News
Women Fighter Pilots News: ISRO's new plan for manned missions has come out. Now women will get priority in space. Women will take command of Gaganyaan.
The special two-part series premièred on Friday at 9 PM on Discovery Channel and Discovery World HD.
The three women fighter pilots are set to be commissioned in a fighter squadron in December are likely to fly Mig 21 Bisons.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will formally commission the women fighter pilots along with flight cadets of various branches of the IAF.
Bhawana Kanth, Mohana Singh and Avani Chaturvedi are the trainees who qualified for the fighter stream after it was thrown open to women in 2015.
Women in combat roles is all set to become a reality with the MoD giving its nod to induction of women into the combat stream of the Indian Air Force.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Friday said there "can be operational and training problems" in inducting women fighter pilots in the Indian Air Force.
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