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On October 27, 2023, the Azerbaijani Armed Forces discovered a workshop for the production of improvised bomblets for armed UAVs and other weapons. The workshop had been abandoned by Armenian forces that left Nagorno-Karabakh following the official seizure of the...

In early July 2023, the Russian Army began deploying Iranian-designed Geran-2 loitering munitions with different characteristics to models of this UAS documented in Ukraine in the past year. Although the manner of use, shape, size, and general design of the...

Since mid-2023, and until as recently as October 2023, Russian forces have been documenting improvised loitering munition payloads used by Ukrainian forces in Ukraine, all fitted with printed circuit boards serving as initiation systems. The payloads are of different configurations...

In the early morning of October 7, 2023, the Hamas terrorist organization launched a surprise attack on the State of Israel. In the aftermath of the unprecedented, deadly assault, numerous weapons and IEDs left behind by some 3,000 Hamas and...

In the early morning hours of October 7, 2023, the last day of the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, the Hamas terrorist organization, in cooperation with other Palestinian terrorist groups, launched a surprise attack on Israel. The meticulously coordinated attack incorporated...

In recent months, the conflict in Mali, in West Africa, has significantly escalated. The Malian Armed Forces, assisted by Russian private military contractors, have intensified their efforts against the Al-Qaeda affiliated Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wa al-Muslimin, and the Coordination of...

Since September 2023, several publications on Russian Telegram channels involved in the support of Russian engineering units have revealed the mass production of improvised anti-personnel mines in Russia. These are copies of the Soviet PMD-6, produced using available materials and...

On October 3, 2023, several police officers were injured, one seriously, after they were called to investigate a banner hung on a bush near Moo No. 6, Ban Pa Sak area, Panare District, in Pattani Province, in southern Thailand. The...

On September 24, 2023, Iran’s state media channels reported a large 28-man Islamic State militant network had been recently arrested in a coordinated operation in Tehran, Alborz and West Azerbaijan provinces.The majority of weapons seized during the raid were firearms,...

On August 28, 2023, a video was published on Russian Telegram channels that describes an FPV-based improvised loitering munition whose main payload is a PG-9 warhead modified in accordance with the mission to allow it to explode upon impact with...

On September 24, 2023, several dozen ethnic Serbian gunmen stormed the village of Banjska, in Zvečan municipality, in northern Kosovo, ambushing a police patrol and killing a police officer. Weapons recovered after the attack included various former Yugoslav and Serbian...

In recent months, there have been a number of incidents involving the use of sticky IEDs by the Al-Shabaab group, targeting high-ranking officials in Somalia. This assassination TTP is also intended to foment chaos among the local population. Al-Shabaab, a...

On September 11, 2023, in the framework of Bolivarian Shield Operation Catatumbo Lightning 2023, the Armed Forces of Venezuela raided six camps operated by Colombian militant groups in Venezuela.One of the camps, in Jose Maria Semprún municipality, in Zulia State,...

On September 13, 2023, a work accident occurred as an IED was being placed on the security fence on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip. As a result of the explosion, six Palestinian militants were killed. In recent...

In recent months, since June 2023, standard and improvised weapons have been documented in use by the parties involved in the violent conflict in Manipur. Among the documented munition items were hand grenades and rifle grenades, mortar bombs and other...