Meet Shivangi Singh, Rafale Squadron’s First Women Fighter Pilot

Turning out the pages from ancient India to modern India, Indian women are always best known for their indeed courage.
With stats indicating women leaders across the world coping competently in the war against COVID-19, women are setting a new landmark of achievers. And past this week, Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh was listed to be the first woman to fly the French-made fighter jet Rafale.

From flying the country’s oldest fighter jets to the newest. She had graduated to fly the Omni-role Rafale after becoming fully-operational on the aging MiG-21 ‘Bison’.
She will formally join the 17 ‘Golden Arrows’ Squadron of the 4.5 generation Rafales at the Ambala Airbase after she finishes her “conversion training”.

While many combat roles are stayed to be under Male clenches in the Indian Armed Forces. Recent changes have unlocked some avenues for women to contribute at par with men, Shivangi Singh’s win standing at the latest.
The conversion training is necessitated when a combat pilot shifts from one fighter to another, it takes 15 crores to train a single pilot in this American training.

Shivangi Singh became the first woman from Varanasi to become a fighter pilot
Flight Lieutenant Singh, who was inducted into the Indian Air Force in the year 2017. Completing graduating from the Banaras Hindu University, Singh was dedicated to achieving her dream of being the pilot at the Indian Air Force and pursued training at Indian Air Academy. She is part of the second batch of women to fly fighter planes in India, after Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth, and Mohana Singh.

Currently, she is serving at a fighter base in Rajasthan.
The Rafale jets are known for air superiority and precision strikes, India’s first major acquisition of fighter planes in 23 imported from Russia, after Sukhoi.
Being a pilot is not inherited and not gifted.
It is just earned by the blood shed, sweat and tears, and years of hard work that no one can imagine.
After the training, she is going to be ready to fly the Rafale with pride and glory and show the enemies of India that if you overplay India you are going to be shattered.