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Earlier this month, SOFREP reported on Russia’s new paratrooper deployment strategy that includes dropping troops inside their armored combat vehicles. This controversial concept is widely believed to place soldiers at unnecessary risk, as the traditional method of deploying paratroopers and their vehicles separately reduces the chances that a single parachute failure could result in the […]
U.S. Army Paratroopers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade, conduct an airborne operation from a U.S. Air Force 86th Air Wing C-130 Hercules Aircraft at Juliet drop Zone in Pordenone, Italy, June 8, 2017. The 173rd Airborne Brigade is the U.S. Army Contingency Response Force in Europe, capable of projecting force […]
U.S. Army forward observers, who specialize in calling for and directing ordnance like artillery and mortar fire, began testing a new piece of equipment last week that may help paratroopers coordinate fire in an easier, and more accurate, way than ever before. The Army tasked “Black Falcon” paratroopers from Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 2nd Battalion, […]
Russia’s paratroopers boast something most other nation’s parachute troops can’t: their own lightweight infantry combat vehicle that makes the drop alongside them. The BMD-4M vehicle allows the Russian parachute forces a level of mobility and combat capability that many nations would struggle to match in a similar setting. However, a new plan announced through Russia’s […]
BUCHAREST, Romania — Officials say 12 U.S. paratroopers have been hospitalized after they sustained minor injuries during a nighttime parachute jump in Romania. Brent M. William, a spokesman for the “Atlantic Resolve” military exercises, told Romania’s Agerpres news agency the accident occurred early Saturday at the Campia Turzii air base in northwest Romania. He said […]
Going out the aircraft door at a thousand feet over the farmland of central Poland, strapped to a parachute and 130 pounds of combat gear, turns out to be the easy part. A relief, in fact, after a 10-hour flight from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, strapped into fold-down seats along the edges of the C-17 […]
NATO officials have also expressed concern about Russia’s own military exercises in which thousands of Russian troops conduct war games without giving the alliance any prior warning.
“The allied army, more specifically, the American Army, they came to liberate, not to conquer,” van den Brink said. “That’s what it says in the Coleville cemetery, where 10,000 Americans are resting forever.
We haven’t used the Airborne since Normandy. We don’t fight those kinds of wars anymore. Only Special Operations need to jump out of airplanes? What are you taking, crazy pills? Maybe just a smug keyboard commando who knows it all, and yet failed to serve. Perhaps an astroturfing puppet out to spread propaganda in the […]
Approximately 1000 paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, in cooperation with NATO Allies and partnered nations, blanketed the sky as they descended onto German soil. The massive personnel drop was a part of exercise Saber Junction 16 near the Hohenfels Training Area, April 12, 2016. https://youtu.be/tW5WuiKQvwk The international cohesion behind the airborne operation was as […]
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