Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
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A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
In this handout released by the U.S. Navy, The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Pacific Ocean. Theodore Roosevelt is conducting routine operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. (Photo by U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
USS Nimitz, USS Ronald Reagan, and USS Theodore Roosevelt conducting operations with South Korea's destroyers during a joint naval drill on November 12, 2017 in East Sea, South Korea (Photo by South Korean Defense Ministry via Getty Images)
Dezful medium range ballistic missile and Zolfaghar road-mobile single-stage solid-propelled liquid fueled missile in the Azadi square (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A combined formation of aircraft from Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5 and Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 pass in formation above the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) (Photo by Lt. Steve Smith/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket carrying satellites for the U.S. Air Force stands ready for launch tonight at pad 39A on June 24, 2019 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Space Test Program-2 mission will attempt to deliver 24 different payloads into thr
A general view of "Ever Given", a container ship operated by the Evergreen Marine Corporation which is currently stuck in the Suez canal, during a tugging attempt to re-float it (Photo by Fadell Dawod/picture alliance via Getty Images)
This undated picture released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on September 3, 2017 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (C) looking at a metal casing with two bulges at an undisclosed location. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
This picture taken late on March 27, 2021 shows a view of tugboats by the Panama-flagged MV 'Ever Given' (operated by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine) container ship, which has been wedged diagonally across the span of the canal about six kilometres north o