Category: Mobius

During May-June 2025, extensive documentation emerged detailing the seizure of weapons shipments and the disruption of their smuggling from Syria to Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. These seizures, made both within Syrian territory and inside Lebanon, point to an intensifying trend...

Since their emergence in the late 2011s, armored vehicles, commonly dubbed monstruos (“monsters”), narco-tanks or simply technicals, have become an iconic feature of Mexican cartels. The designs of these improvised fighting vehicles vary widely across armed groups: some favor large,...

In the past year, the trend of the increased use by Mexican cartels of armed UAVs carrying small, improvised bomblets has continued. This tactic has become one of the main methods used in combat between rival groups, as well as...

Recent battlefield observations reveal that Russian forces are deploying FPV drones as improvised loitering munitions equipped with anti-tank guided missile warheads. This tactic is corroborated by Russian social media documentation showing ATGMs such as the Konkurs, Shturm, and Metis being...

Toward the end of April and into early May 2025, new battlefield documentation emerged from the Ukrainian theater showing previously undocumented cluster submunitions bearing Korean-language markings. These markings suggest a probable origin in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.This report...

Since early April 2025, documentation of OZM-72 mines modified for delivery by drone by Ukrainian forces has begun appearing on Russian Telegram channels focused on combat activity. All documented cases featured OZM-72 mines encased in a PVC pipe, equipped with...

On the morning of April 25, 2025, an explosion occurred in a vehicle in the city of Balashikha, in Moscow Oblast. The blast resulted in the death of Lieutenant General Yaroslav Moskalik, a high-ranking official in the Russian Ministry of...

On May 3, 2025, an explosion occurred at a street junction in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece. As a result of the explosion, a woman was killed, in what was apparently a work accident. According to the documentation, she was...

On April 26, 2025, a massive explosion occurred at Shahid Rajaee Port, in Bandar Abbas – Iran’s primary container facility – resulting in extensive structural damage and causing intense fires throughout the facility. At least 57 people were killed, and...

On April 29, 2025, four IEDs were neutralized along a busy road that connects Sandoná municipality with Pasto, in Nariño department, in western Colombia, bordering Ecuador. The daisy-chained IEDs, attributed to FARC dissidents, were cased in gas canisters connected to...

 The Sahel region continues to represent a high-threat environment for terrorism, with Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimeen maintaining a high operational tempo, particularly in Mali and Burkina Faso. The group’s TTPs and IED initiation systems remain consistent with previously documented...

The Geran-2 loitering munition has become a central component of Russia’s long-range strike strategy against urban targets and critical infrastructure in Ukraine.Originally introduced as the Iranian Shahed-136, the UAS has since been adapted and is domestically produced in Russia, incorporating...

On March 8, 2025, approximately ten armed assailants launched a coordinated attack outside the Sungai Kolok District Office in Sungai Kolok Municipality, Narathiwat Province. The assailants arrived in a pickup truck and a car, opening fire with assault rifles and...

In recent months, the “PPTM” initiation system designed for use with Ukrainian copies of PTM-3 shaped charge anti-tank mines, has been frequently documented by Russian forces.The mechanism system is specifically tailored for integration with the rectangular casing of the PTM-3...