For Women’s History Month, The National Interest is commencing a multi-part series honoring some of history’s most badass female warriors. We started off with the deadliest female sniper in history, ...

Jackie Moggridge's achievements were numerous - she was the first woman in South Africa to do a parachute jump, she flew more ...

Some websites on retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, and the World War II-era ...

Did a U.S. female fighter pilot recently score her first air-to-air kill? Explore the story behind this potential milestone in aviation history and its impact on the role of women in combat aviation.

she had already trained forty-five pilots! “Partly out of need, partly out of a sense of Communist egalitarianism, the Soviet Air Force in World War II was the only major arm to allow women to f ...

Men and women who have taken to the air on behalf of the United States expressed bewilderment after the leak of attack plans.

One such landmark was set last year when Indian Air Force, for the first time, inducted female fighter pilots. Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana Singh scripted history by becoming the ...

To answer that question, we turn to former Sunday Times of London journalist Russell Miller in his 1984 book The Soviet Air ...

Multiple webpages and media relating to retired Maj. Gen. Jeannie Leavitt, the Air Force's first female fighter pilot, are no longer online amid the Trump administration's purge of diversity ...

Tanushka Singh makes history as the first woman pilot in the IAF’s Jaguar squadron, paving the way for greater gender inclusion in combat aviation. It was a historic moment in the Indian Air Force as ...

In 2023, Avani reached another remarkable milestone by becoming India's first female pilot to fly the Sukhoi fighter jet. Serving as squadron leader, she participated in a 16-day mega air combat ...