paratroopers

Elite paratroopers dominate the skies in joint UK, US and French show of firepower

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Ready for Anything: Elite paratroopers and Apache attack helicopters dominate the skies over Salisbury Plain in joint UK, US and French show of firepower Exercise Wessex Storm saw 2 PARA Battlegroup training to serve as lead infantry unit in 16 Air Assault Brigade Scenario builds up to a simulated mission involving parachuting, rapid airlanding and … Read more

Look out below! 250 British paratroopers jump into Ukraine in joint exercise with its army

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Look out below! 250 British paratroopers jump into Ukraine in joint exercise with its army in show of force against Putin Around 250 Colchester-based soldiers dropped into the Ternivsky training area Troops parachuted into the country from 600ft from C-130 Hercules transport  MoD said it built on strong relationship between Ukraine and UK’s armed forces Tensions … Read more

Mass grave of WWII Nazi paratroopers found in Poland contains 18 skeletons and tools with swastikas

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Stalin’s army invaded a Nazi airfield towards the end of World War II, killing a number of German soldiers and now archaeologist have found their final resting place. A mass grave has been unearthed in Poland that contains skeletal remains of 18 paratroopers who met their demise in 1945. The pit also revealed weapons etched, … Read more