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)
Pro-Ukraine demonstrators outside the US Capitol as President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelenskyy addresses a joint meeting of Congress on December 21, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier watches a self-propelled 220 mm multiple rocket launcher firing toward Russian positions on the front line in eastern Ukraine on November 29, 2022. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian servicemen fire artillery shells at the frontline of Donbas, Ukraine, on December 5, 2022. (Narciso Contreras/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A Russian RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile during Victory Day parade rehearsals on May 7, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor/Getty Images)