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)
Sailors from the US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 1 and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force prepare for a mine-sweep exercise dive using an unmanned underwater vehicle to detect training mines in Japan’s Ise Bay on February 4, 2020. (US Air Force)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Takeshi Iwaya meets NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the NATO summit on June 24, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (Getty Images)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signs the memorandum of understanding at his office in Tehran, Iran, on June 18, 2026. (Iranian Presidency via Getty Images)
Two Dassault Rafale jet fighters refuel from an Airbus A400M during a French Air and Space Force military exercise at Orléans–Bricy Air Base in Boulay-les-Barres, France, on November 14, 2025. (Getty Images)