In March 1972, just weeks after Bloody Sunday when 13 unarmed civilians were shot by British Army paratroopers, a young Derry ...

Putin said he feared that Nato intends to use the far north to launch invasions. He made his chilling speech after Donald ...

The night before a jump is like the night before the battle. You wait. You wonder. You get ready. And you know, when you go ...

Eighty-five years ago today, the Curtiss CW-20 took to the skies for the first time, marking the beginning of what would become the legendary Curtiss C-46 Commando. Originally designed as a ...

British Army Corporal Eddie Rudd parachuted into his wedding and danced with a broken leg. Despite the injury, he plans ...

1603: Scottish King James VI, son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, joining the English and Scottish crowns. On the same day, Tokugawa Ieyasu is ...

John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105.

A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help ...

The event allows participants to experience a tandem skydive with the British Army's Red Devils parachute ... showcase the immense capabilities of the Army’s paratroopers and regularly entertain ...

The soldiers were practicing an operation the Army calls a “mass tactical” drop, with the deployment of dozens of paratroopers over ... line incorrectly, mid-air collisions, or jumpers ...

Operation Varsity "was the battle that ended" World War Two in Europe, yet it is largely unknown to all but military history ...