British airborne troops dropped from a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, 2016

Photograph by Corporal Andy Reddy, Royal Logistic Corps, Exercise SWIFT RESPONSE, 2016.

Most military parachuting aims to quickly deliver soldiers and supplies into action. Soldiers jump out of a plane and their parachute canopy opens automatically from a static line attached to the aircraft.

From a collection of digital photographs associated with British Army training 2013-2017.