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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 ...
Former British defense secretary calls Royal Navy’s submarine name change ‘woke nonsense’
Grant Shapps, a former Conservative member of the U.K.’s Parliament and Defense Secretary, called a recent submarine name ...
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Royal Navy confirm BAE Systems built HMS Agincourt has been renamed
The Royal Navy has confirmed one of its submarines built in Barrow has been renamed as the HMS Achilles. Astute Class boats ...
Opinion
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 is, quite simply, a better name ...