The Ministry of Defence has denied claims that the UK is planning to reduce airborne capability or cut pay for paratroopers, following reporting suggesting the Army could narrow its parachute forces ...

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 ...

Pierre Wolnik, a world champion wingsuit skydiver from France, died on Saturday during a jump in the French Alps after his parachute failed to open. Wolnik, 37, jumped from a helicopter in a wingsuit ...

Pierre Wolnik died on Saturday, Feb. 7, in the French Alps Pierre Wolnik/Instagram A double world champion wingsuit skydiver plummeted to his death in the French Alps after his parachute failed to ...

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 ...

French freefall champion Pierre Wolnik, 37, died yesterday when a jump went catastrophically wrong at altitude, according to reports. The elite wingsuit flyer is said to have leapt from the mountain ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police are searching for part of the parachute system from a light aircraft which crashed on to farmland in Greater Manchester killing two people. The small Cirrus SR 20 plane came down close to the ...