Royal Marine Commando elites parachute into urban assault

Royal Marines from Plymouth performed a stunning sunset parachute drop over Denmark as the UK’s key military deployment of the spring moved up a gear - with a breathtaking urban assault.

Leaping from just 800 feet, the men of the elite Pre-Landing Force, 30 Commando, landed outside the small town of Varde in western Jutland.


After a 90-minute flight in a C130 Hercules from RAF Brize Norton, the commandos jumped over their dropzone using special low-level parachutes, landing on their target with pinpoint accuracy at twilight. The drop is just one element in the opening stages of the two-month-long Baltic Protector deployment, led by Britain and involving more than half a dozen nations which border either the Baltic or North Seas.