 "Sub-Lieutenants Riti Singh (left) and Kumudini Tyagi, iNDIAN NAVY, WOMEN, warships")
In a historic first aimed at ensuring gender parity, the Indian Navy has selected two women officers as helicopter crew for deployment on frontline warships on short and long-duration missions, officials said on Monday.
Sub Lieutenant Kumudini Tyagi and Sub Lieutenant Riti Singh have graduated as Observers (airborne tacticians) in the helicopter stream and would be deployed on warships as part of the crew, they said.
The Indian Navy is yet to deploy women officers on board warships unlike navies from countries like the US, the UK, Australia, Germany and France.
"In yet another first in the history of Indian naval aviation, two
