On Saturday, the United Kingdom deployed six paratroopers and two military clinicians from 16 Air Assault Brigade to provide aid to the island of Tristan da Cunha. The medical relief team arrived in ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Airbus A400M is capable of carrying up to 116 paratroopers at one time - that's more than any other western-built transport plane. Today, it's ...

A paratrooper exits one of the two side doors of the A400M during a demonstration of the aircraft's low-level parachuting capabilities. (Crown Copyright) The United ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Paratroopers jump into Normandy to pay tribute to the soldiers who parachuted in on D-Day in Sannerville, Normandy ...

Airbus A400M four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft can perform military transport, aerial refueling, fire fighting, and medical evacuation. TAUFKIRCHEN, Germany – Military aircraft experts ...

A target date for the clearance of the United Kingdom to use its Airbus A400M Atlas airlifters for tactical parachuting of airborne forces has yet to be set, a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) spokesman ...

The Airbus A400M Atlas has succeeded the role of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules for many air forces around Europe. It is one of the most unique airlift planes and turboprop-powered aircraft ever made ...

MADRID, May 10 (Reuters) - British paratroopers have dropped onto Britain's most remote overseas territory, Tristan da Cunha, along with medics and medical supplies, after a case of suspected ...

A team of British army medics and paratroopers airdropped onto the remote Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha Saturday to render aid to a UK national who is believed to have contracted hantavirus on ...

PARIS, June 6 (Reuters) - British paratroopers recreating an airdrop behind German defences to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day were met by French customs officials at a makeshift border checkpost.