The Army will recode 20,000 parachutist jobs in a major airborne restructuring. Here, an Army paratrooper assigned to the 173rd Airborne Brigade recovers his parachute in Pordenone, Italy, on March 20 ...

Russia's elite airborne force, known as the VDV, has taken heavy losses in Ukraine. Those setbacks have led Russian commentators to question how the VDV is designed and employed. The issues raised ...

The U.S. Army is restructuring its airborne forces, leading to pay changes for thousands of parachutist positions. According to a report from the American military newspaper Stars and Stripes, an ...

Russia has reportedly reinforced its "over-stretched" infantry troops on the frontline in the Zaporizhzhia region with units from its VDV Airborne Forces, according to a Monday intelligence update ...

The Russian Defense Ministry’s website has removed a greeting by the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Colonel General Mikhail Teplinsky, in which he mentioned casualties among his troops in ...

In the 1950s the Navy and Army worked on small VTOL machines to make troops go airborne. They worked, just not well enough.

For the paratroopers of the 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade, the ...

While Russia has not released any official numbers, an expert is claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s airborne forces have lost more than half of its fleet and staff, RadarOnline.com has ...

IAF and IIT Madras collaborate on an indigenous airborne communication system, enhancing India's defense technology and ...

Army Aviation developed rapidly during World War I with significant advancements in aircraft types, weapons, ordnance, instruments and flight gear, including parachutes. Initially, parachutes were ...