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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Airborne units are typically the first American forces to reach a crisis zone, which means their equipment must prepare them for immediate contact the moment they land Units like the 82nd Airborne ...

Capt. Chelsea Brisbois of 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne Division, pulls daytime security in the Yukon Training Area, Alaska, March 30 during exercise Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness ...

As a young man, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Connor Cozad grew up watching Band of Brothers, a 2001 HBO miniseries depicting the history of "Easy" Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry ...