It led to Project Excelsior, where the United States Air Force would intentionally send an airman into the stratosphere to then jump back to Earth, in the hopes of perfecting parachute technology. The ...

The Indian Army’s infantry is built around 27 regiments shaped by geography, culture and centuries of military evolution.

Why giant parachutes won’t work on airliners—exploring the physics, safety philosophy, and engineering realities behind modern commercial aviation.

Two seasoned Navy SEALs who died during parachute training near Marana last year made mistakes that hurled them to their deaths, military investigators have determined. Both had jumped safely hundreds ...

On a clear morning in the early space age, the U.S. Air Force sent a single man to the edge of the atmosphere and told him to step off into the void. The man was Joseph Kittinger, a test pilot whose ...

The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team is well into its preparations for the 2026 demonstration season, which begins ...

Okinawa officials contend parachute training at Kadena Air Base is no longer justifed after the U.S. military’s primary offshore site reopened last year.

A military recruiter in Minnesota, pointing to fears over the ongoing ICE operations in Minneapolis, promoted joining the National Guard to high school students highlighting a program that can offer ...

A photo from 2004 shows a tugboat towing the decommissioned aircraft carrier Midway past Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery to San Diego Bay. At the time, it was stated that Midway would be moored ...

For some service members, the action they’re seeing isn’t on the battlefield — it’s in the markets. While some are making big money through high-risk stock trading and other short-term, risky ...

At a time when computer technology was still in its infancy, the US developed an unmanned, supersonic reconnaissance aircraft capable of flying at three times the speed of sound ...