Ceremonial soldiers parade during the 79th anniversary of the Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2024. (Sefa Karacan via Getty Images)
An F/A-18F Super Hornet launches off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) in the South China Sea on June 10, 2024. (US Navy photo)
Ceremonial soldiers parade during the 79th anniversary of the Victory Day in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on May 9, 2024. (Sefa Karacan via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
Members of China's thirteenth Arctic Ocean scientific expedition team conduct a sampling operation aboard China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2 on August 6, 2023. (Wei Hongyi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
The second oil well drilled, outside of the Otuabagi community, continues to leak crude despite being capped in Bayelsa, Nigeria. (James Barnett via New Lines Magazine)