14:59, Tue, Feb 17, 2026 Updated: 20:29, Tue, Feb 17, 2026 Plans to cut back the British Army’s elite airborne infantry force risks “blunting the tip of the spear”, a former soldier-turned-MP has ...
A court has heard how a man posted footage of himself driving around Ahoghill waving a Parachute Regiment flag he had taken from a home on Tiktok. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast ...
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Soldiers in the British Army's largest infantry regiment are preparing for potential war with Russia at the UK's only training area to replicate a Ukrainian conflict zone. Troops are practising for ...
People were warned not to touch the red device, which contains the propellant A missing part of the parachute system from a light aircraft that crashed killing two people has been found. The small ...
"In effect, this cut-back would ground the Parachute Regiment and rule out any future mass parachute drop by British forces." Tobias Ellwood also suggested that RAF chiefs may have ulterior motives ...
They have a reputation for daring and courage – seeing heroic action in Normandy, Arnhem, the Falklands and Afghanistan. But the future of the legendary 'Paras' could be under threat from cost-cutting ...
A major military monument will be unveiled this summer, it has been confirmed. The statue to mark the 25th anniversary of the airborne forces in Colchester was commissioned by Army bosses at Merville ...
Sitting in a room within a stone’s throw of the Houses of Parliament at Westminster, the conversation lingers over the echoes of shots fired 34 years ago. They were fired shortly before 11pm on a dark ...
In a new demonstration of its military deployment in the South Atlantic, the United Kingdom carried out Operation FIRIC, during which the British Army tested the operational capability of the Royal ...
President Catherine Connolly met 50 family members of those killed by the British Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday during her first visit to Derry in an official capacity. Did you know with an ...
People are warned not to touch the red device, which contains the propellant Police are searching for part of the parachute system from a light aircraft which crashed on to farmland in Greater ...