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)
Soldiers place flags at the headstones of US military personnel buried at Arlington National Cemetery on May 25, 2023, in Arlington, Virginia. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev, and Nikol Pashinyan attend a tripartite meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 25, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor via Getty Images)
Pakistani military personnel stand beside a Shaheen III surface-to-surface ballistic missile during a Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2017. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
US Air Force pilot looks down at the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovered over the Central Continental, United States, on February 3, 2023. (US Department of Defense/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)