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The Indian Air Force (IAF) will soon have a woman fighter pilot in a MiG-29 squadron

Defence Research and Development Organisation's Aeronautical Development Agency and the Indian Navy are jointly working on it at the design stage. The aircraft would operate from the Indian Navy’s current and future aircraft carriers. 

Close on the heels of green lighting the production of 83 indigenous Tejas jets, the government has formally moved ahead to procure 21 MiG-29, 12 Sukhoi-30MKI jet fighters from Russia along with the upgrades of their existing fleets
 

The ongoing Malabar exercise in the Indian Ocean region, saw MiG-29Ks of Indian Navy and F-18s of US Navy carrying out simulated attacks on the surface force during a multilateral naval exercise
 

Indian Air Force (IAF) is planning to acquire new MiG 29 fighters from Russia and equip them with weapon systems such as Astra air. 

Wing Commander Anjali Singh has become India's first female military diplomat. She was trained on MiG-29 fighter aircraft and she joined duty on September 10.
 

Emergency services were immediately pressed into action. While a few civil and commercial flights were diverted, some departures were slightly delayed. 

The IAF, in February alone, lost eight officers in six aircraft crashes. Two of the aircraft lost were in combat — the MiG 21 Bison that Wing Commander Abhinandan was flying and the Mi-17 V5 that went down on February 27. The rest of the crashes have occurred during routine missions.