The training has been staged to show the UK's ability to deploy troops and equipment at short notice.

For the scenario, troops were deployed to reinforce a NATO ally facing a potential invasion, with soldiers moving off the ...

Around 270 soldiers from 16 Air Assault Brigade leapt from three RAF A400M aircraft flying at just 800ft over Salisbury Plain ...

Paratroopers have staged their biggest jump in Britain in more than a decade. About 270 soldiers from the 16 Air Assault ...

The biggest military parachute jump in the UK for more than 10 years has shown how the British Army and Royal Air Force can work together in the air.

Britain's armed forces conducted their most substantial airborne operation in more than ten years, with over 270 paratroopers ...

The British paratrooper killed in Ukraine left a heart-breaking message of hope for his beloved family, it has been revealed. Lance Corporal George Hooley, 28, of the Parachute Regiment, died while ...

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 ...

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