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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 ...

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 ...

Penny-pinching defence chiefs are devising plans to slash the jumping capability of the legendary Parachute Regiment, it was feared last night. Just days after Downing Street sources suggested an ...

The British 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment — just 600 men — were ordered to assault Goose Green. Intelligence said 500 defenders. Reality: more than 1,500 Argentine troops. Heavy snow warning as 11 ...

France and 24 allied countries are conducting large-scale military drills to prepare for high-intensity conflict, amid escalated threats from Russia. The allied military drill Orion-26,” France's ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

A war veteran who parachuted into Normandy on D-Day has died at the age of 99. Roy Burr, who was born in Essex, but lived in Kingswood near Bristol, was one of the last surviving members of the 6th ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Roy Burr was a regular attender at his local Normandy veterans’ group in Bristol before Covid sapped his confidence - Paul Turner ...

AN SAS soldier died after crashing at high speed at a world championship parachuting contest, an inquest heard. Staff Sgt Chris Good, 52, misjudged his rate of descent over the high-altitude landing ...