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)
Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko during the Supreme Economic Eurasian Council at the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 25, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands in front of a Puma infantry fighting vehicle of the Bundeswehr while visiting the Bundeswehr army training center in Ostenholz on October 17, 2022, near Hodenhagen, Germany. (David Hecker via Getty Images)
An instructor from the Trident Defense Initiative gives instruction about a DJI drone during the training session for the Ukrainian Defense Forces in the Kharkiv, Ukraine, on June 13, 2023. (Sofiia Bobok/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The North Atlantic Council meeting room where the most important meetings of NATO members are held in the NATO Headquarters building on April 27, 2023, in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana via Getty Images)
Bayraktar Kemankes, the mini smart cruise missile developed by Baykar, is introduced during TEKNOFEST in Istanbul, Turkiye on April 27, 2023. (Arife Karakum via Getty Images)
Ukrainian servicemen fire a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher toward Russian positions near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on June 13, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
China's guided-missile destroyer Zhanjiang attends the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition on May 26, 2023, in Langkawi, Malaysia. (Zhang Hui via Getty Images)