{"id":354733,"date":"2025-07-04T04:59:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=354733"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:36:40","slug":"astha-poonia-make-history-becomes-first-woman-to-be-trained-to-be-streamed-into-the-fighter-stream-of-indian-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/astha-poonia-make-history-becomes-first-woman-to-be-trained-to-be-streamed-into-the-fighter-stream-of-indian-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Astha Poonia make history, becomes first woman fighter pilot in Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/Navi-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/Navi-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/Navi-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/Navi-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/Navi-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/Navi-1068x712.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/Navi-630x420.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/Navi.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">Astha is the first woman streamed into the fighter stream of Indian Navy<\/mark><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sub Lieutenant Astha Poonia has made history, becoming the first woman to be trained to be streamed into the Fighter stream of Naval Aviation, shattering barriers and paving way for a new era of women fighter pilots in the Navy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Ministry of Defence statement on Friday announced the graduation of the Second Basic Hawk Conversion Course at INS Dega, Visakhapatnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/navy-2-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354734\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/navy-2-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/navy-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/navy-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/navy-2-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/navy-2-696x464.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/navy-2-1068x712.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/navy-2-630x420.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2025\/07\/navy-2.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOn July 3 2025, Lieutenant Atul Kumar Dhull and Sub Lieutenant Aastha Poonia received the prestigious \u2018Wings of Gold\u2019 from Rear Admiral Janak Bevli, ACNS (Air). S-Lt Aastha Poonia becomes the first woman to be streamed into the Fighter stream of Naval Aviation \u2013 Shattering barriers and paving way for a new era of women fighter pilots in the Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndian Navy has already inducted women officers as Pilots and Naval Air Operations Officers in MR aircraft and helicopters. Streaming of SLt Aastha Poonia into the Fighter Stream highlights the Indian Navy&#8217;s commitment towards gender inclusivity in Naval Aviation and promoting Nari Shakti, fostering a culture of equality and opportunity,\u201d the MoD said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astha is the first woman streamed into the fighter stream of Indian Navy Sub Lieutenant Astha Poonia has made history, becoming the first woman to be trained to be streamed into the Fighter stream of Naval Aviation, shattering barriers and paving way for a new era of women fighter pilots in the Navy A Ministry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":354735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[19922,19921],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354738,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354733\/revisions\/354738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/354735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}