Multiple safety procedures were not followed prior to the parachute jump in which Spc. Matthew Perez was killed, an ...

Static line and freefall parachutes are tools of America's airborne infantry. But there's a lot to it. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Erick Requadt.

Cadets of the Ryazan Higher School of Airborne Troops named after General V.P. Margelov killed their commander by tying the ...

Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate (ABNSOTD) certified test paratroopers with the “Black Hats” of 1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) Basic Airborne School ...

1 / 11 Show Caption + Hide Caption – U.S. Army paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division and Bulgarian 68th Special Forces Bde. conduct a parachute assault during ...

The British equivalent of the US Rangers, meanwhile, would be 1st Battalion, the Parachute Regiment – permanently assigned to ...

Pvt. John Towle who, faced with a company-size enemy force with armor support and comported himself like a one-man anti-tank ...

Tom Rice jumped with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division on that momentous day in 1944, landing safely despite a bullet striking his parachute.

TransDigm Group Inc. on Monday said it agreed to buy Airborne Systems Inc. from private-equity firm Metalmark Capital for about $250 million in cash, expanding the aviation-parts supplier's ...