A view at the beginning point of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) on May 9, 2025, at Pump Station 1 in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. (Lance King via Getty Images)
An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier of the 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade stands outside the town of New York on the front lines of Russia's war against Ukraine on July 28, 2023. (Wojciech Grzedzinski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
US Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jesse Rushing installs a 5G antenna in preparation for a 5G network demonstration at MCAGCC in Twentynine Palms, California, on August 15, 2022. (Ryan Kennelly via DVIDS)
Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh fires a standard missile during a live-fire exercise in the Philippine Sea on January 23, 2023. (Santiago Navarro via DVIDS)
Amid intensifying threats military from China, Taiwanese soldiers carrying artillery to tanks during the two-day live-fire drill in Pingtung, Taiwan, on September 7, 2022. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers use an armored engineer vehicle based on a Leopard tank chassis to pull their comrades car from a ditch on May 11, 2023. (Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Three of the four Apollo 13 flight directors applaud the successful splashdown of the Command Module Odyssey on April 17, 1970. (NASA via Getty Images)
US Marine Corps recruits with Delta Company participate in the “stairway to heaven” challenge on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, on July 29, 2022. (Cristian G. Torres via DVIDS)