British and French paratroopers have conducted joint exercises ahead of a potential peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, rehearsing airborne landings and combat scenarios in the event of a ceasefire with ...

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 ...

Parts of the Parachute Regiment are set to be stripped of routine parachute training under plans to narrow the Army’s airborne capability. The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the UK will retain ...

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 ...

A world champion winged suit skydiver has died after his parachute failed to deploy during a jump in the south of France. Pierre Wolnik, 37, a two-time French freefly world champion, died after ...

A parachute malfunction has led to a terrible tragedy. On Saturday, a Frenchman well known in the skydiving world lost his life. He was doing a free-fall jump in the southeastern region of France this ...

A French skydiver has died after his parachute malfunctioned during a jump over the Alps. World champion Pierre Wolnik was performing a daring dive above France's Mont Blanc on 7 February when tragedy ...

The investigative minds at How to Survive analyze physics, biology, and real-world cases to determine whether the human body can survive a fall without a parachute. Moderate Democrats bolt from new ...

For more than a century, the prestigious Sikh Regiment has stood as a living symbol of Punjab’s martial legacy. Raised in 1846, the regiment fought in both World Wars as part of the British Indian ...

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 ...

The pop star chose an unorthodox way of premiering the visual following a change in Billboard's charts. By Hannah Dailey Taylor Swift didn’t release her latest music video in the way she normally does ...

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 ...