Ivanovo Guards Paratroopers Prepare BMD-2-AUV
Russian Paratroopers from the Ivanovo Guards, 98th Guards Airborne, recently prepared their BMD-2K-AUV vehicles for an airborne insertion. ~ Russian Federation News... Read More
EAGLE ACE II ~ American And Italian Parachute Insertion
American and Italian Paratroopers jumped from US Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft over Rivolto Air Base on Thursday 18th February on EAGLE... Read More
Foreign Legion Live-Fires HK416F On WESSEX STORM
French Foreign Legion Paras from the elite Deuxième REP have live-fired the Heckler & Koch HK416F on Exercise WESSEX STORM 2020. ~... Read More
JOINT ENDEAVOUR 2020 ~ 3 PARA BG In Ukraine
Ukrainian and British paratroopers are actively preparing for Exercise JOINT ENDEAVOUR 2020 in Southern Ukraine’s Mykolaiv region. ~ Ukrainian MoD Press Release,... Read More
Russian Guards Airborne Forces Para-drop
More than 1000 servicemen of the Ivanovo-based Airborne Forces were landed from various types of aircraft in the course of planned exercises... Read More
Operation MARKET GARDEN ~ 75th Anniversary
This weekend marked the 75th Anniversary of Operation MARKET GARDEN, the almost successful WWII Allied drive through the Netherlands to cross the... Read More
Helicopter Focus ~ Japan Ground Self-Defence Force
The 1st Airborne Brigade of the Japan Ground Self-Defence Force (JGSDF) is an elite formation whose speciality is parachute and heliborne operations,... Read More
Paratrooper Focus ~ Japan Ground Self-Defence Force
The blue wintry sky was filled with green canopies as parachutists floated steadily to the ground; overhead, Kawasaki C-1 and Lockheed Martin... Read More
In Brief ~ Exercise COLIBRI LI Underway
The annual COLIBRI airborne exercise in now underway in France, reports Carl Schulze.
No Way Out ~ Musa Qala, Helmand Province
In the summer of 2006 during the UK’s first roulement to Helmand Province in Southern Afghanistan under Operation HERRICK the situation took... Read More