Mohana Singh becomes first woman fighter pilot to fly Hawk jet

Flight Lieutenant Mohana Singh has become the first woman fighter pilot to fly by day a Hawk advanced jet aircraft. She achieved the feat at the Kalaikunda Air Force Station in West Bengal. Lt Mohana’s training involved flying both air-to-air combat and air-to-ground missions. She has undertaken many practice missions which involved firing of rockets, ..

Topics: Aircraft • Avani Chaturvedi • Aviation • Bhawana Kanth • Fighter pilot • Indian people • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 • Mohana Singh Jitarwal

Bhawana Kanth becomes India’s first woman fighter pilot to qualify to undertake combat missions

Flight Lieutenant Bhawana Kanth, who belongs to Darbhanga (Bihar), has created history by becoming the India’s first female fighter of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to qualify to undertake combat missions for day operations on a fighter aircraft. This comes after she completed her day operational training as a fighter pilot on the MiG-21 Bison ..

Topics: Aircraft • Aviation • Bhawana Kanth • Darbhanga • Indian Air Force • Mikoyan MiG-29 • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23

Avani Chaturvedi becomes first Indian woman to fly fighter aircraft solo

Flying officer Avani Chaturvedi from Madhya Pradesh has scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo. She flew a MiG-21 bison in her first solo sortie from IAF’s Jamnagar base in Gujarat on February 19. She is one of the three in the first batch of female pilots, besides ..

Topics: Avani Chaturvedi • Aviation • Bhawana Kanth • Chaturvedi • Fighter pilot • Indian Air Force • Indian people • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 • Mohana Singh Jitarwal • States and union territories of India

DARIN III gets IOC to join Indian Air Force

The Indian Air Force (IAF) has given initial operational clearance (IOC) to the upgraded Jaguar Darin-III twin-seat aircraft. Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), certification agencies, trial team of the Aircraft Systems Testing Establishment (ASTE) and other agencies are involved in upgrading Jaguar from Darin-I (Display Attack Ranging Inertial Navigation) to Darin-III standard. This is a part of IAF’s ..

Topics: Aircraft • Ambala Air Force Station • Aviation • Future of the Indian Air Force • Hindustan Aeronautics Limited • Indian Air Force • Mikoyan MiG-27 • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 • SEPECAT Jaguar

Sudarshan Shakti

Recently, the Indian Armed Forces (Army and Air Force) is testing its war-fighting doctrine in the Barmer-Jaisalmer sector, in biggest ever war game. The frontline IAF fighter aircraft such as the Sukhoi-30, AWACS and UAVs provided live feed of war games to battle field commanders. Sixty thousand troops and 300 tanks participated in the exercise ..

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2011

Topics: Aircraft • Aviation • Defence Research and Development Organisation • Indian Air Force • Indian Armed Forces • Mikoyan MiG-27 • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 • Ministry of Defence • South Western Air Command • Sukhoi Su-30MKI