First Indian female Rafale pilot - Shivangi Singh - Where is she? Dead? Captured?

[LordJames]

It's a solid blow from IAF to Noor khan air base.... its beyond repairs

Nur Khan Airbase:

Solid blow, beyond repairs

Iranian President just landed there, yesterday and here is the video

 

[straighttalk]

the only very tenuous rumours ive heard are that shes alive and captured. no idea what really going on though. given the whole abhinandan episode everyone knows how critical it would be if she was captured, there is no way the indian government would not escalate if pak had captured her and made the info public.

however the aerial data shared by the PAF implied the indian jets stayed in their own air space, so her landing in pakistan wouldnt make sense. logically making heads or tails of this is pretty impossible without more info. what is certain is that something is not quite right, given no one has heard from her for nearly four weeks now.

Honestly she is just another pilot..bcos of her gender she gave one interview..she is neither a celebrity as @sweep_shot is falsely claiming and not does she give periodic interview....which other pilot is known to common people and media..do pakistanis know all the pilots name

 

[Bhaijaan]

Indians moved on from May to prepare for the next war. The reforms I have seen being talked about in the last few months in the aftermath of the May escalation, frankly I haven’t seen anything like that in decades. The shift to complete indigenisation is a daunting task for any nation but im glad we are starting to seriously talk about it. While Pakistani continues to enjoy Chinese platforms being served to them in a platter we are building our own industries for it. You will surely get there before us in many things but as we found out with the air defense systems performances recently getting free stuff doesn’t always pay off against someone who’s heavily invested in indegenous integration of foreign platforms.

We demonstrated with the Brahmos and the S400s how we can purchase expensive foreign tech and integrate it perfectly in our layered defence. That was a critical and game changing context of the May escalation.

This is exactly the idea behind the AMCA program also. IAF knows it doesn’t matter if they purchase F35s or Su57s or Rafales, they cannot get the maximum from these platforms unless they have complete control of the source codes. I have no doubt even if we indigenously produce a fighter jet half the capabilities of these foreign ones we would be fine because that’s what we are getting out of the foreign ones anyway.

 

[Rafale Nidhal]

IAF first mistake was to have women as pilots. Women should never be anywhere near to the control stick. They are much better are organizing things.

 

[Mamoon]

IAF first mistake was to have women as pilots. Women should never be anywhere near to the control stick. They are much better are organizing things.

With a face like hers, she wasn't going to make it in any other profession though.

 

[DeadlyVenom]

IAF first mistake was to have women as pilots. Women should never be anywhere near to the control stick. They are much better are organizing things.

If anything, in recent times, male Indian pilots have set the bar very low.

In almost every instance I'd prefer a woman of any nationality to be a pilot than I would an Indian male.