Category: Reports

During the war in Ukraine, both sides have employed the TM-72 anti-tank mine in limited numbers. Available documentation indicates these Soviet-era mines are designed for use with two types of standard magnetic influence fuzes. TM-72 mines are significantly rarer on...

In December 2025, the Chechen-origin jihadist media project Lamanho published an instructional manual titled “Anti-Vehicle Radio-Controlled Magnetic IED (2025)” via an Islamic State–affiliated RocketChat server. The publication provides step-by-step guidance for the assembly and deployment of an under-vehicle magnetic IED...

On December 16, 2025, FARC dissidents carried out a coordinated, multi-axis attack in Buenos Aires, Cauca Department, southwestern Colombia, employing a combination of IEDs, improvised indirect fire, armed UAVs, and sustained small-arms fire against police and government facilities. The operation...

On December 6, 2025, at approximately 11:40 AM, an explosion occurred on Rayón Avenue in the center of Coahuayana de Hidalgo, in Coahuayana municipality, Michoacán State, western Mexico. Four community police officers were killed and more than a dozen others...

Since October 6, 2025, a Ukrainian initiation system designated “Opera” has been documented with increasing frequency in the Ukrainian theater of operations. Although this type of system had been observed prior to this period, more detailed and repeated documentation has...

In late November and early December 2025, a Russian Telegram channel alleging affiliation with the Russian airborne forces shared a short instructional video for a drone-delivered VOIED. The video depicts the use of an MUV fuze paired with an improvised...

In recent months, Russian forces have increased their use of the Italmas loitering munition, including repeated strikes against residential areas in Sumy Oblast, northeastern Ukraine. Manufactured by Russia’s ZALA Aero Group, the Italmas features a distinctive forward-mounted internal combustion engine...

VP-2A PRO RC initiation mechanisms have recently been observed being used as initiation systems for OFAB-100-110 aerial bombs employed as warheads on large loitering munitions deployed by Ukrainian forces. Previously, VP-2A and VP-2A PRO mechanisms were documented primarily as remote...

On November 24, 2025, a coordinated, multi-stage attack targeted the Frontier Constabulary Headquarters on Saddar Road in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The attack involved an initial PBIED detonation at the main gate, followed by armed infiltration and the subsequent initiation...