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.

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 ...

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 ...

The discovery of a limited number of British No. 4 rifles in a storage area in France unveiled a long-forgotten part of World War II and also provided firearm enthusiasts with a rare opportunity.

The relatively small size of Germany’s World War II navy made it incapable of taking on the British and French navies head-on. Instead, the Kriegsmarine was given a much more limited role, of ...