On December 2, 2023, residents of the village of El Parotal, in Guererro State, reported they had downed two UAVs used in armed UAV attacks by the La Familia Michoacana cartel against their village and other communities in the mountainous municipality of Petatlán.
The recovered UAVs, one of which locals had taped back together, were documented in a video published on December 9, 2023, alongside an improvised bomblet that had failed to initiate.
Numerous styles and types of improvised bomblets have been evidenced in different parts of Mexico in the last year, including a series of “new generation” bomblets, one of which is reportedly chemical dispersing. According to local reporting, around 30 such improvised bomblets have been used in attacks against civilians already in 2023.
Mexico is the country with the largest number of criminal-related armed UAV attacks in the world. During the last three years, the size and number of improvised bomblets used in these attacks has both increased and progressed.
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