The famous Operation Moked was the opening strike of the Six-Day War. Striking enemy airports and disabling the Arab Air Forces led the IAF to complete aerial dominance throughout the war, which allowed it to assist ground forces freely. Thousands of attack sorties launched from IAF bases resulted in the destruction of about 70 percent of the enemy air forces' fighter aircraft, about 450 in number.

Russian military intelligence executed a cyberattack on at least one US voting software supplier and sent spear-phishing emails to more than 100 local election officials just days before last November’s presidential election, according to a highly classified intelligence report obtained by The Intercept.

In a rare revelation, Dr. Avner Cohen publishes an interview he held with Brig. Gen. (res.) Yitzhak (Yatza) Yaakov who oversaw weapons development for the Israeli military.

In the interview, Yaakov reveals the conduct of the political and military leadership regarding the development of the first nuclear device of the State of Israel in 1965-1967.

South Korea is set for the mass-production of the Raybolt medium-range anti-tank guided missile, as it has passed a "quality certification" test.

The live-fire test of the man-portable rocket system was successful, held at a Pocheon range, northeast of Seoul, according to the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA).

The Defense Agency for Technology and Quality (DATQ) also participated in the test of an actual product made by LIG Nex1, a local defense firm.

Ultimately, Israel's successful defense must depend upon far more than prudent strategic and tactical planning. It requires what the ancient Greeks and Macedonians insightfully called a victory of "mind over mind," as distinguished from mere "mind over matter." To most plausibly achieve such an indispensable victory, the Jewish State will first need to acknowledge that "time" is not only the dynamic process within which its national power must always be fashioned. It also represents a critically meaningful source of power unto itself.

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed their ties with Qatar on Monday, accusing the Gulf Arab state of supporting terrorism. Hours later, Yemen's state news agency announced that Sana'a also decided to cut diplomatic relations.

The coordinated move dramatically escalates a simmering dispute over Qatar's support of the Muslim Brotherhood, the world's oldest Islamist movement, and adds accusations that Doha even backs the agenda of regional archrival Iran. 

Orbit Communications Systems, a provider of precision tracking-based communications solutions and airborne audio management systems, provided its Orion audio management system to the MC-21 passenger plane, which completed its maiden flight of on May 28th. The MC-21 uses Orbit's Orion audio management system, customized for Irkut by the UAC Integration Center.

On May 31, 2017, Houthi militants attacked the Marshall Islands-flagged oil tanker MT MUSKIE in the Bab al-Mandab Strait. The militants fired RPG-7, rocket-propelled grenades at the tanker before breaking off their assault. At the time of the attack, the vessel was on its way to Jeddah in Saudi Arabiya.

On the eve of the Arab-Israeli war, 50 years ago this week, Israeli officials raced to assemble an atomic device and developed a plan to detonate it atop a mountain in the Sinai Peninsula as a warning to Egyptian and other Arab forces, according to a report by the New York Times.