Military parachutes are designed for reliability and control, not freedom of movement. For decades, round canopies carried ...

Leapfest, the largest military parachuting competition of its kind, was poised to take off from Quonset State Airport on Saturday morning. The chutes were packed and checked. But Mother Nature wasn't ...

NATICK, Mass. - Four parachute riggers assigned to the Combat Capabilities Development Command, or DEVCOM, Soldier Center recently competed in Leapfest 2025, the annual International Military ...

Doha, Qatar: Competition at the 47th World Military Parachuting Championship (CISM 2025) is set to resume today at Umm Shokhot Airport after a two-day delay due to unfavourable weather. Following ...

JC Berland's T-11 is the main parachute for the U.S. military. (Spc. Giovanny Lopez/Army via Canva) Anyone who has thrown themselves out of a military plane over the last two decades has likely ...

(Editor’s note: This is part of a series about Westmoreland County residents who have been honored as Hometown Heroes. The program honors local military and non-military heroes by displaying photos on ...

Parachute maker Irvin Aerospace Inc. is looking for a lift from the recent win of a key military contract and work on NASA’s next generation of spaceships. Following the initial battles in Afghanistan ...

Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday lauded the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for developing the indigenously developed Military Combat Parachute System, calling it ...

A VIRAL video on social media showed a dramatic incident during what appeared to be a military parachute jump demonstration ...

Editor’s Note: This article was published as part of a content-sharing agreement between Army Times and The Fayetteville Observer. It could take more than a year before the case of a Special Forces ...

PORTERVILLE, California (KFSN) — A U.S. Navy Sailor died in a parachute training mission out of the Porterville airport in Tulare County last Thursday. Their identity has yet to be released as ...