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)
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller speaks on the Iranian missile attacks on Israel on October 1, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
A common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, on March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. (DVIDS)
A Ukrainian anti-aircraft squadron guards the skies along the front lines in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on October 19, 2024. (Fermin Torrano/Anadolu via Getty Images)
United States President Joe Biden meets with Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob on October 22, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)