Vive notre ami l’ennemi”, wrote a patriotic French songwriter sarcastically in the 1820s, after peace had returned and ...

The King intervened over the renaming of HMS Agincourt to avoid offending the French, it was claimed last ... by Queen Elizabeth II — of the Royal Navy submarine which is now called HMS Achilles.

Carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) pulled into Laem Chabang, Thailand, on Monday for a port visit after three weeks of ...

The Royal Navy has been accused of renaming new attack submarine HMS Agincourt to avoid upsetting the French - sparking claims of 'craven and contemptible surrender'. The seventh Astute Class boat ...

The fifth edition of the exercise in the Indo-Pacific is the pinnacle of a wider 150-day French deployment, centered around ...

French navy supply ship Jacques Chevallier arrives in Darwin as part of Frances Clemenceau mission in the Indo Pacific. Picture: Fia Walsh. From January 16 to 24 France led exercise La Perouse ...

In the event of a near-peer conflict with China, American allies and partners would bring important capabilities to the table.

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 ...

The Royal Navy has confirmed one of its submarines built in Barrow has been renamed as the HMS Achilles. Astute Class boats ...

But Top Brass reheated their plan and have settled on Achilles because they do not want to remind the French of their defeat ... Only last year the Navy insisted it had "no intention to rename ...