Airborne warfare

American generals were surprised when they had to present the award to the winner of the military competition "Best Warrior" in the USA. Namely, instead of giving the award to one of the numerous participants from the National Guard, the first place was won by a non-commissioned officer of the Serbian Army, Sergeant First Class Ivan Jeremi, writes "Politika".

The deployment of paratroopers to Bosnia and Kosovo has been cancelled after relevant videos

Impressive demonstrations from the HAF F-16 Demo Team and Special Forces paratroopers

U.S. Army Soldiers from the 3rd Assault Helicopter Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment trained with Bulgarian Special Forces Soldiers on a paradrop exercise from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, August 20th, 2019.

The accident in which a Canadian paratrooper died happened during a parachute jump on Monday evening near the village of Cheshnigirovo, close to Plovdiv in central Bulgaria, the Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday.

The three survivors have been hospitalised at the Sveti Georgi University Hospital in Plovdiv and have no life-threatening injuries, the ministry added.

A major 10-day joint training exercise between Greek and Serbian special forces units concluded on Saturday.

Participants in the Zima ("Winter") 2017 exercise, Serbian and US paratroopers, on Thursday morning practiced carrying out a parachuting assault.

According to the Ministry of Defense, the paratroopers jumped from two US C-130 aircraft that took off from the Batajnica airport.

Three Russian Il-76 transport planes on Wednesday brought 212 soldiers from the country's Airborne Troops (VDV) to Serbia.

They were accompanied by 56 Belarus troops who will, together with 450 Serbian soldiers, take part in the Slavic Brotherhood military exercise November 3-9.

More than 150 members of the Ivanovski Battalion of Russia's Airborne Troops (VDV) are due to arrive in Serbia for a joint military exercise.

The Russians will participate in the exercise, dubbed "Slavic Brotherhood 2016," together with Serbian soldiers. They will also be joined by members of the Belarus military.

The largest military training of NATO in Europe since the end of the Cold War - Swift Response 2015 will feature night airborne landings in Bulgaria.

An airborne landing with parachute drops and descent of equipment will take place after 21 o'clock on Monday in the areas around the airports of Tenevo and Balchik and Novo Selo Training Area.