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)
The Virginia-class attack submarine Minnesota is under construction at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. (US Navy photo courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding)
Royal Australian Navy sailors perform maintenance on a remotely operated vehicle during the Australia, UK, and US (AUKUS) Pillar II Subsea and Seabed Warfare Event Two / Integrated Battle Problem 25.1 on December 6, 2024, in the Atlantic Ocean. (US Navy photo)
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk speak to the press as they sit in a Tesla vehicle on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Donald Trump speaks at NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building after the launch of a SpaceX spaceship to the International Space Station on May 30, 2020. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The Dilution refrigerator is seen inside Amazon's quantum networking lab in Brighton, Massachusetts, on June 28, 2024. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)