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)
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)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
United States Marines prepare an RQ-7B Shadow during an exercise as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course 2-15 near Yuma, Arizona, on April 10, 2015. (US Marine Corps vis DVIDS)
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul participates in a multinational military exercise with NATO allies as part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group on October 5, 2022. (Kerri Kline via DVIDS)
SS Delaware makes its way down the Thames River and past the City of New London after departing Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut, on Monday, November 28, 2022. (US Navy via DVIDS)
Leading Seaman Emma Searle, Chief Petty Officer Timothy Voight, Leading Seaman Garreth Laurie, and Leading Seaman Doug Thomas conduct pre-flight checks on a ScanEagle remotely piloted aircraft from 822X Squadron at Jervis Bay Airfield, Jervis Bay Territory. (Royal Australian Navy)
A 38-foot Steber uncrewed surface vehicle that can be used for mine-sweeping operations during a testing and evaluation event by the Royal Australian Maritime Warfare Centre and Thales in conjunction with Maritime Deployable Robotic and Autonomous Systems Experimentation Unit in Sydney on March 1, 2023. (Royal Australian Navy)