How much should Britain really be spending on defence?
As the government comes under pressure from Nato and the US to up its budget, Sean O’Grady asks if it would be justified to ...
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The Royal Navy’s Final Astute-class Submarine Is Being Renamed—And Britons Aren’t Happy
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 under ...
Why calling a Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarine 'HMS Achilles' is not 'woke nonsense'
We feel confident that France would not have been outraged if the submarine had been called HMS Agincourt, but HMS Achilles ...
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Renaming of HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles pre-dates Labour government
The controversial move not use the name Agincourt began more than a year ago, amid suspected concerns it would offend Nato ...
Royal Navy renames sub HMS Agincourt 'to avoid annoying the French'
The seventh Astute Class boat was due to become the sixth vessel to be named after the 1415 battle, where Henry V routed the ...