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26/05/22 20:14 PM IST

Captain Abhilasha has become Indian Army's first woman combat aviator

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  • Captian Abhilasha Barak has become the Indian Army's first woman combat aviator.
About Abhilasha Barak
  • The 26-year-old Harayana girl has been awarded the coveted 'wing' along with 36 Army pilots by the director-general of the Army Aviation during a ceremony held at Combat Army Aviation Training School in Nashik.
  • Captain Barak became the first woman officer to join the Army Aviation Corps as combat aviator after successful completion of the combat Army aviation course.
  • Barak was commissioned into the Army Air Defence Corps in September 2018. '
  • Barak is the daughter of Col S Om Singh (Retd) and has done a number of professional military courses before joining the Army Aviation Corps.
Army Aviation Corps 
  • The Army Aviation Corps is a component of the Army that was formed in November 1986.
  • The corps has expanded exponentially with the addition of new units and state of the alt equipment like Cheetah Dhruv, Rudra light combat helicopter, and remotely piloted aircraft.
Other Achievements
  • In 2018, flying officer Avani Chaturvedi of the Indian Air Force scripted history by becoming the first Indian woman to fly a fighter aircraft solo. She flew a MiG-21 bison on her first solo flight.
  • Chaturvedi was part of a three-member women team commissioned as flying officers in July 2016, less than a year after the government decided to open the fighter stream for women on an experimental basis.
  • In 2020, the Navy announced deploying its first batch of women pilots on the Dornier maritime aircraft.
Source- Livemint 

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