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 ...

Elite British and French paratroopers complete deployment training for Ukraine, ready for peacekeeping missions across NATO.

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 ...

Defence cost-cutting measures could see Britain's elite Parachute Regiment being stripped of its parachutes in favour of more affordable means of deployment. The legendary unit, renowned for heroic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Parachute riggers assigned to Group Support Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) successfully executed the ...

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 ...

A British Army officer killed in a training incident took up his call "to serve the common good of humanity", mourners have been told at his funeral service in Ireland. Captain Philip Gilbert ...

British soldiers are currently enduring formidable conditions, including chest-deep snow, as they participate in a crucial Nato exercise just miles from the Russian border in Estonia. The large-scale ...

The British military will return to test high-tech drones at a southern Alberta base this spring, five years after it moved major tank training out of the Medicine Hat region. That departure impacted ...