Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The seventh and final Astute-class submarine was to be called HMS Agincourt, but it will now be named HMS Achilles - J ...

Britain’s Royal Navy is facing a deeply uncomfortable readiness problem at sea. Reports say all five of its Astute-class ...

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 ...

Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and defense secretary, called a recent submarine name change by the Royal Navy “woke nonsense” to avoid offending the French.