France, Oct. 25 -- Some 600 French and British paratroopers dropped from four RAF A400M Atlas transport aircraft during the operation, which the UK government described on Sunday as one of Britain's largest airborne deployments in two decades.

The parachute drop formed part of Rhino Titan, a seven-week exercise involving around 2,500 troops at the Sennelager military training centre in Germany.

For the participating French forces, the operation offered an opportunity to practise a large-scale airborne deployment alongside their British allies, as European countries focus on military readiness amid Russia's continuing war against Ukraine.

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