Dynamite News First Ever, IAF Lady Fighter Pilot Avni To Participate In Aerial Wargames Outside Country In Japan
India’s one of the first three lady fighter pilots Squadron Leader Avni Chaturvedi will be leaving for Japan shortly for participating in the exercise. Read on for details:
Jodhpur: For the first time, an Indian Air Force woman fighter pilot would be part of the Indian contingent for the aerial wargames to be held outside the country.
India’s one of the first three lady fighter pilots Squadron Squadron Leader Avni Chaturvedi will be leaving for Japan shortly for participating in the exercise. Squadron Leader Chaturvedi is a Su-30MKI pilot.
The Su-30MKi is a versatile multirole combat aircraft which can carry out both air-to-ground and air-to-air missions simultaneously.
The exercise Veer Guardian 2023 will be carried out from January 16 to January 26 at the Hyakuri Air Base and its surrounding airspace in Omitama, and the Iruma Air Base in Sayama in Japan.
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The women officers have been participating in wargames with the foreign contingents coming to India including the French Air Force where two of the lady fighter pilots took part but this would be the first time they would be representing the country on foreign land. (with ANI inputs)