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An MQ-28A Ghost Bat takes off during Exercise Carlsbad at RAAF Base Tindal in April 2025. (Australian Department of Defense)

True color satellite image shows Earth centered on the North Pole with cloud coverage during summer solstice in 2002. (Getty Images)

A US Navy Global Autonomous Reconnaissance Craft maneuvers in the Atlantic Ocean on September 23, 2025. (US Navy)

Royal Australian Navy officers and sailors stand at ease on board HMAS Choules during their port visit to Hobart, Tasmania, in May 2025. (Australian Department of Defense)

Seahawk, a medium uncrewed surface vessel prototype, departs Naval Base Point Loma, California, on August 6, 2025. (US Navy)

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The Russian military unveils the submarine Khabarovsk at Sevmash JSC Shipyard in Severodvinsk, Russia, on November 1, 2025. (Getty Images)

US marines participate in a live-fire range on the flight deck of the USS Iwo Jima in the Caribbean Sea on October 14, 2025. (US Navy photo)

President Donald Trump disembarks Air Force One as he arrives at Haneda Airport on October 27, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)

The United States Air Force 354th Air Expeditionary Wing and Marine Aircraft Group 12 performed a capabilities demonstration during a pre-planned readiness exercise at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, July 7, 2022. (US Marine Corps)

A US Air Force F-35A Lightning II flies over the Pacific Ocean near Misawa Air Base in Japan on September 26, 2025. (US Air Force)