India's first woman 'Top Gun' pilot: How Sqn Ldr Bhawana Kanth earned IAF's toughest combat badge

Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth became the first Indian woman to complete the elite Fighter Combat Leader course. Captain Shivani Sehrawat is now the first woman officer appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Army chief. Kanth previously qualified for daytime combat missions on a MiG-21…

Squadron Leader Bhawana Kanth has completed the punishing fighter combat leader course - 20 weeks of the most advanced combat flying training the IAF offers. Only about one in 100 pilots is even chosen to attempt it

Hailing from Darbhanga, Bihar, and trained as an engineer before joining the armed forces, Kanth made history in June 2016 as part of the IAF’s first cohort of female fighter pilots alongside Avani Chaturvedi and Mohana Singh.