A quality inspector checks crankshafts at a factory that produces the mechanical component for the domestic market and export in Binzhou, China, on December 10, 2024. (Getty Images)
A 40th Flight Test Squadron F-16 Fighting Falcon flies with a Stand-in Attack Weapon on its rail on November 7, 2024, near Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. (US Air Force photo)
Japan's Economic Revitalisation Minister Ryosei Akazawa poses with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington, DC on May 1, 2025. (STR/JIJI Press/AFP via Getty Images)
An image of an electronic wafer is displayed at the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Museum of Innovation in Hsinchu, Taiwan, on November 21, 2024. (I-Hwa Cheng/AFP via Getty Images)
The final piece of the underwater hull of the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) is lowered into place at Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia on September 28, 2018. (US Navy photo courtesy of Huntington Ingalls Industries by John Whalen)
A destroyed aircraft at Khartoum International Airport in Sudan is seen on April 17, 2025, after the Sudanese Armed Forces took control of the airport from the Rapid Support Forces. (Getty Images)
As the U.S. Navy grapples with losing many of its cruisers in the coming years, it's looking to kick off a major effort to move forward on its next-generation of large surface combatant.
A soldier in Tampa, Florida, assesses the Army's One World Terrain software, which will be used to create real-time, realistic simulated terrain for soldiers to fight on
The Shabab control large parts of Somalia and raise considerable funds through local taxation and extortion. The group has carried out deadly attacks not only in Somalia but also in Kenya and Uganda.
Edward Snowden speaks via video link to participants of the 'MCI alumni and friends' conference at the Congress Innsbruck on October 18, 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria.