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 sits behind an MR-2 Viktor anti-aircraft system on September 11, 2024, in Sudzha, Kursk Region, Russia. (Oleg Palchyk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
US Marine Corps Sgt. Vincent Tran, a transmissions systems operator, prepares to launch an RQ-20B Puma small uncrewed aerial system during Keris Marine Exercise 2023 at Piabung Training Area in Sukabumi, West Java, Indonesia, on November 30, 2023. (US Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Dean Gurule)
An employee processes chips at a Jiangsu Aoyang Shunchang Photoelectric Technology Co., Ltd. workshop on May 11, 2024, in Huaian, China. (Zhao Qirui/VCG via Getty Images)