The French Navy has taken a major step toward reshaping its maritime force posture. On June 17, 2025, a fixed-wing unmanned ...

LONDON, June 17, 1940 (UP) -- Great Britain, its empire and its national life at stake, faced Germany and Italy alone today with the threat of an imminent German invasion and the possibility that ...

STUTTGART, Germany — The French Navy has taken delivery of the LSS Jacques Chevallier, the first of a new class of supply ships meant to replace the service’s aging fleet tankers.

Early on July 3, 1940, a massive British Royal Navy task force assembled off of Mers-el-Kébir in what was then French Algeria. The port was home to a small but powerful French Navy squadron that ...

During the last fifteen or sixteen years, the French navy, much neglected at the beginning of LOUIS PHILIPPE's reign, has assumed such an importance as to be the object of German praise and ...

The German Navy’s Sea Lynx Mk88 is one of the earlier models, with 19 entering service in 1981 and seven improved Mk88A delivered in 1996 (with the older Mk88s upgraded to the A standard).

U.K. Royal Navy and Italian carrier strike groups with other allied ships wrapped up NATO exercise Mediterranean Strike 25 in the Ionian Sea on Sunday. Meanwhile, the French Navy began their major ...

Originally from Rennes in northern France's Brittany region, Gautier joined the war against Nazi Germany in 1940 at the age of just 17 when he enlisted in the French Navy. As German forces seized ...