Category: Mobius

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, improvised multiple rocket launchers mounted on pickups and large trucks have appeared on the front lines, in the vicinity of Kharkiv, Kherson, Kryvyi Rih, Mykolaiv and Donetsk. The Ukrainians’ use of...

On October 8, 2022, at around 6 AM, a powerful explosion occurred on the Crimean road-and-rail Bridge, on the section leading from the Taman Peninsula, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, to Kerch, in Russia-occupied Crimea. The explosion ignited seven fuel tanks...

On October 18, 2022, Myanmar security forces successfully neutralized a VBIED that had been parked in a commercial area in the center of Myawaddy town, in Kayin State, in eastern Myanmar. A large explosive payload had been placed in the...

Amid the continuation and intensification of the fighting in Ukraine, particularly between March 8 and October 4, 2022, the use of different standard shaped mines of Russian production to target infrastructure, by both the Russian and Ukrainian sides, was documented....

On September 28, 2022, at around 10:20 PM, an IED initiated on an empty bus at the Baigra Petrol pump gas station in the Domel Chowk area of ​​Udhampur, in Jammu and Kashmir. Two people were slightly injured as a...

On September 25, 2022, an explosion occurred in a moving vehicle traveling on Lomonosov Street, in the city of Melitopol, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in Ukraine. As a result of the explosion, the driver, a Ukrainian citizen, was killed, and the...

On September 24, 2022, Azerbaijani border security forces found a cluster of mines in Zangilan District, near the border with Armenia. The weapons were inscribed with Armenian markings. The cluster included mainly Claymore-type mines and two large bounding mines similar...

Early on the morning of September 29, 2022, an explosion occurred in the city of Henichesk, located between the villages of Plavskoe and Sokolohornoe, in Kherson Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. An IED attack had targeted electricity towers of the Dzhankoy-Melitopol...

In September and October 2022, increased documentation of improvised loitering munitions based on rotary wing FPV racing drones appeared online, some with better visual information of the improvised payloads used. One such UAV was a Russian quadcopter with a fragmentation...

On September 25, 2022, four loitering munitions were launched toward the city of Odesa, which lies on the shores of the Black Sea, in southwestern Ukraine. Three of them impacted an administrative building used by the Ukrainian Army’s Operational Command...

On September 1, 2022, the Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis) held a largescale military parade in open terrain near the city of Al-Hodeidah, situated in Al-Hodeidah Governorate, on Yemen’s western coast. The parade marked the training graduation ceremony of new batches...

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Ukrainian security forces have documented numerous incidents of booby traps set up by retreating Russian forces, most of which were improvised, using simple munition items.Recently, special anti-handling...

On August 26, 2022, a discussion thread on how to sabotage railroad tracks and derail trains was opened on the Telegram channel of Lamanho – a closed group created by Chechen Muslims whose goal is to share their military knowledge...

During the second weekend of September 2022, southern Yemen’s Security Belt Forces raided Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula camps in several locations near Al-Musaina’ah Town, in Yemen’s Shabwah Governorate. The raiding forces seized various IEDs, as well as components of...

During July and August 2022, improvised bomblets for UAVs, incorporating shaped warheads designed specifically to penetrate armored vehicles, started to appear in Ukraine. The improvised warheads have copper liners and one of two geometric shapes – a concave configuration, which...