The submarine was due to be named HMS Agincourt, but will now follow HMS Agamemnon's lead, being named after a warrior from the Iliad. The UK Royal Navy (RN) has changed the name of the final Astute ...

HSwMS Halland is the final Gotland-class submarine to receive an MLU that aims to keep the class of three boats in service out to at least 2030. (Royal Swedish Navy) Saab has relaunched the Royal ...

Virginia-class submarine program. The Navy has been procuring Virginia (SSN-774) class nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) since FY1998, and a total of 40 have been procured through FY2024.

One of the most unique and interesting submarines was the old Alfa-class nuclear-powered submarine. Known as Project 705 Lyra, the Alfa-class was meant to push the boundaries of undersea speed ...

There will be no quotes from William Shakespeare’s play Henry V used as the motto for the Royal Navy’s seventh and final Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine. The boat, which is now ...

General Dynamics Corporation’s GD business unit, Electric Boat, recently clinched a contract involving USS Ohio Class submarines. The award has been offered by the Supervisor of Shipbuilding ...

In the fifth of a series on Chinese weapons systems, we look at the country’s submarine developments. In the depths of the South China Sea, a fully armed black giant glides through the waters ...

Half a century on from The Churchill Play and Howard Brenton has returned to the subject matter of the World War 2 Prime Minister. Churchill in Moscow is set during the British Bulldog’s first ...

And we talked about history. After World War Two, Winston Churchill was thrown out, but they brought him back. Grover Cleveland, the only other American president that did not serve consecutive ...

Under the Aukus submarine programme, the US will supply several Virginia-class nuclear-powered submarines to Australia in the early 2030s while Canberra will pay Washington US$3 billion to boost ...

Gavin Williamson, a Conservative former defence secretary, first announced the name Agincourt in 2018 for the under-construction vessel, the seventh of the Astute Class submarines to be commissioned.