American paratroopers use a wide range of parachutes. Large formations use quick-snapping static line rigs whose designs date to the parachute regiments of World War II. Special operations teams ...

French paratroopers conducted a low-level airborne drop on British territory on the same day President Emmanuel Macron ...

British and French paratroopers have completed a dramatic joint training exercise this week. France’s elite 11e Brigade ...

Paratroopers from the State Flight Test Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation set an absolute world record by jumping from a height of 10,120 meters using the modern Tandem ...

On June 6, 1944, some 13,000 U.S. paratroopers plunged down onto the bloodied beaches of Nazi-occupied France. ... CBS News correspondent Charlie D'Agata parachutes down into Normandy, ...

Worked packing parachutes for SR-71 Blackbird crews. ... Tucsonan packed parachutes for pilots, paratroopers. Carmen Duarte Nov 2, 2015 Nov 2, 2015 Updated Nov 1, 2017; 1 of ...

Churches in Normandy, France honor the American paratroopers who landed on D-Day as biblical heroes with dramatic images in stained-glass windows — fascinating points of interest for any traveler.

U.S. paratroopers had a liquid drop zone this week, with Lake Garda serving as the latest scene of water airborne operations training for members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade.

U.S. Army paratroopers with 2nd Battalion, 377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 11th Airborne Division, and service members of the Royal Thai Army with 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd ...

Two paratroopers in the U.S. armed forces were injured shortly before a University of Arizona baseball game after they appeared to suffer a hard landing. The Tucson Fire Department posted April 12 ...

LARGO — Heaven Dropt is a non-profit in Pinellas County, bringing new life to some old parachutes. They say they honor paratroopers by taking military parachutes that would have been thrown away ...