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)
An illuminated sign is displayed in the window of an outlet for the Australian communications company Optus in Sydney on November 9, 2023. (David Gray/AFP via Getty Images)
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)