Category: Mobius

On June 23, 2024, a Russian instructional video explaining how to assemble an IED resembling a YaRM shallow water mine for deployment from an armed UAV was posted on a Ukrainian military-related Telegram channel.The video reportedly features a Russian UAV...

On June 12, 2024, the Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier M/V Tutor was targeted in the Red Sea by two unmanned surface vessel water-borne IEDs, forcing the crew to abandon ship a few days later and resulting in the ship’s sinking....

On the morning of June 30, 2024, a VBIED initiated outside a residential building accommodating families of police officers from the Bannang Sata Police Station, located near Tesban 5 Road, in Bannang Sata city, in Yala Province.According to the investigation,...

In recent months, documentation of standard explosives melted and cast for use in IEDs by Ukrainian fighters has appeared. The explosives were sourced from standard munitions, including various shells, mortar bombs and hand grenades. The methods documented include melting in...

During the night between April 13 and 14, 2024, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a large-scale attack against the State of Israel, in which ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and loitering munitions were employed. The attack, dubbed Operation True Promise...

Modifying standard munitions for use with armed UAVs is a popular TTP employed by both the Russians and Ukrainians since shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The availability of large amounts of Soviet ordnance enables both sides to find...

In May 2024, Ukrainian sources published a video purportedly intercepted from the camera of a Russian FPV racing drone showing the FPV drone deployed as an improvised loitering munition separating from its “carrier.” A few days later, a Russian source...

On May 31, 2024, an attempt to launch mortars at a military base in a rural area of Villavicencio municipality, in Meta Department, Colombia, was foiled. A truck was found some 300 meters from the base in which an improvised...

In June 2024, Russian sources on Telegram revealed detailed information regarding the thermobaric warheads used with the Polish Warmate loitering munition. This UAV is known to have several types of warheads, produced in Ukraine, and it has been continuously used...

In recent few months, there have been a number of motorcycle VBIED attacks in Colombia. Two of these events took place in the town of Jamundí, in Valle del Cauca Department, about three weeks apart, on May 20 and June...

The conflict in Ukraine has clearly demonstrated that unmanned systems are fundamentally changing the dynamics of warfare, both in the air and at sea. Within the naval domain, Ukraine’s maritime unmanned systems have distinguished themselves as significant players due to...

Throughout the war between Ukraine and Russia, the increasing development of a variety of weapons and systems by volunteer and combatant groups has been observed in the fields of armed UAVs and improvised loitering munitions, dedicated ammunition and various initiation...

In recent months, coverage of the war in Ukraine has revealed the growing use of unmanned systems – mainly UAVs, but also unmanned ground vehicles – for remote mine-laying in areas and roads used by the enemy, and to attack...

Since the start of the Iron Swords/Al-Aqsa Flood War on October 7, 2023, the use of sticky and other IEDs manually placed by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has been documented. In the course of the war, and throughout...

In late March and late April 2024, the Al Jazeera news network published two videos documenting combat tactics used by Hamas – tunnel warfare and booby-trapping in particular. The news stories mentioned various methods employed by Hamas to booby-trap tunnels, and...