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)
Russian President Vladimir Putin looks through the scope as he shoots a Chukavin sniper rifle during a visit to the military Patriot Park in Kubinka, outside Moscow, on September 19, 2018. (Photo by Alexey Nikolsky/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier fires artillery as Russia-Ukraine War continues on May 25, 2024, in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Photo by Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A 550-ton outer dome is hoisted in place at the construction site of the world's first commercial small modular reactor, Linglong One, on February 6, 2024, in Hainan Province, China. (Photo by Luo Yunfei/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen (L) and Montenegro's President Jakov Milatovic attend a joint press conference after their meeting in Podgorica, Montenegro, on October 31, 2023. (Photo by SAVO PRELEVIC/AFP via Getty Images)