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)
People looking at drones on display in an exhibition in the PMC Wagner Centre during the official opening of the office block on the National Unity Day in Saint Petersburg, on November 4, 2022. (Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden participates in a virtual bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 15, 2021, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. (Official White House via Flickr)
Javelin anti-tank missiles are seen at the Lockheed Martins Pike County Operations facility in Troy, Alabama, on May 3, 2022. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images)
A Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAV at the National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology in Taichung on March 14, 2023. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)