The controversial move not use the name Agincourt began more than a year ago, amid suspected concerns it would offend Nato ...

In 1982 the Royal Navy had several improved version Type 42 destroyers, one of which HMS Sheffield was sunk with an AM-30 Exocet missile by a Super Etendard from the air branch of the Argentine Navy.

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) located the wreck ... in the early years of the Pacific battles of World War II. Fighting alongside Australian warships, the Edsall protected Australia and other ...

Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name ...

Admiral Lord West recalling his Falklands' combat experience said that “if your system doesn't work you get sunk. You've lost a ship and you've got dead sailors.” Defense minister Baroness ...

The names of ships and submarines are put forward by the Royal Navy's Ships' Names and Badging Committee and then approved by the monarch. HMS Agincourt was the name agreed under Queen Elizabeth ...

Even though some Astute-class hulls are still being laid... Last weekend, three Royal Navy warships joined their NATO allies and began the world’s largest test of naval air and missile defenses.

The United Kingdom has confirmed that one of its Royal Navy nuclear-powered submarines surfaced close to the Yantar, a notorious Russian spy ship late last year, to make it clear it was being observed ...

The Navy is ... honor of Omaha’s World War II “Hero of the Solomons.” Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced last week that one of the next new Arleigh Burke-class destroyers (DDG 142 ...