This Submarine Is a Powerhouse: The Royal Navy is preparing to welcome HMS Agamemnon, its sixth Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, into service by 2025. Capable of carrying nearly 40 ...

HMS Triumph (S93) sailed into HMNB Devonport flying a decommissioning pennant on the afternoon of Dec. 12, 2024, marking an end to its 33 years of service in the Royal Navy. As the Royal Navy moves to ...

The transition was made official in a ceremony that the Queen Camilla attended on the HMS Astute, a ship she sponsors Queen Camilla has been appointed to a historic royal role on the eve of her 78th ...

This episode captures the rollout of HMS Anson, one of the Royal Navy’s Astute-class nuclear submarines. It examines the ...

Twin ceremonies at the BAE Systems submarine yard in Barrow-in-Furness saw the Royal Navy commission the sixth Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), HMS Agamemnon, into service and the ...

As I noted in an April 11, 2025, article for The National Interest titled “The Royal Navy’s New Astute-class Submarine Is Nearing Active Service,” the Astute-class subs are the biggest and baddest (in ...

If you are familiar with Greek mythology, or you've at least seen 2004's Troy movie, then the name Agamemnon might ring a bell or two. Not the most impressive of Greek kings, Agamemnon ruled over ...

HMS Anson, the fifth Astute class submarine, which BAE Systems has designed and built for the Royal Navy, has departed the company's shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, and headed out to open sea ...

Making a submarine is not an easy task, and it takes a lot of time to put one together properly. No one knows this best than the Royal Navy, which has been involved since the early 2000s in an all-out ...