"For the first time in a fighter will be young Frau": German press about the appearance of women in the Russian Air Force
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The reports of the domestic press about the imminent appearance in Russia of pilots who control fighters were positively received in the German media.
And here are the first female fighter pilots in Russia. They have been absent from the Russian Air Force since the end of World War II. This will change soon: women are studying for the first time at the military aviation school in Krasnodar and have received appropriate training.
- this is welcome news on the pages of Flug Revue.
At the same time, it is indicated that female work in this area has long been commonplace in the West. In the United States, girls have been flying fighters since the early 1990s, while in Germany it has long been a tradition to have women in Eurofighter cockpits.
Gender is secondary, only performance matters. In Russia, everything is still different: here is a combat aviation was a purely male area since the end of World War II, during which women also served as fighter pilots
- explained in the publication.
As noted, "now this order will not last long":
Among those who successfully completed training at the aviation school for the first time this year, there are young Frau
However, as the Flug Revue points out, most of the girls will pursue careers in military transport aviation.
Russian Ministry of Defense website
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