To enhance its strategic deterrence capabilities, the U.S. Navy awarded Lockheed Martin a $383 million contract to develop the Trident II D5 Life Extension 2 (D5LE2) ballistic missile system. This ...

In November 2024, Rolls-Royce Submarine opened a new office in Glasgow to help expedite the delivery of the Dreadnought and AUKUS submarine programmes. While Rolls-Royce will run the office, the UK ...

The seventh and final Astute-class submarine, which is under construction for the Royal Navy, was due to be named HMS Agincourt. It would have become the sixth vessel to be named after the battle ...

In early 2024, during a mission to investigate the seafloor beneath the Dotson Ice Shelf, an advanced autonomous submarine vanished without a trace after making a disturbing discovery: unknown ...

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France managed to cope with the existence of the Royal Navy dreadnought HMS Agincourt during ... France would not have been outraged if the submarine had been called HMS Agincourt, but HMS ...

and while the Unionists bang on about the delayed Calmac ferries we hear very little of the multibillion-pound cost overruns on the likes of Hinkley Point nuclear power station or the Dreadnought ...

The 7th Astute-class submarine is to be named HMS Achilles, as approved by The King. The name is appropriate in light of the 80th anniversaries this year of VE and VJ Day. Six ships have previously ...

The Royal Navy has announced it is changing the name of a new submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, in a move branded "woke nonsense" by former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps. It follows ...

The Astute-class hunter-killer submarine planned to be called HMS Agincourt will now be HMS Achilles. One of the Royal Navy’s seven Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine moves through ...

In a surprising announceme nt on Sunday evening, the Royal Navy revealed that the seventh and final Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine, previously named HMS Agincourt, will now be called HMS ...