Mobius report 26/2022 – Belarussian Instructional Video for Modifying a VOG-17 Fuze for use as UAV Ammunition
On April 5, 2022, an instructional video was posted on the Belarussian pro-Ukraine Sal autem in diaboli Telegram channel, illustrating the neutralization of the safety arming element from a VOG-17 fuze, to enable immediate initiation upon impacting the target when...
Mobius report Improvised Rocket Production, Myanmar
Beginning in November 2021, armed militants affiliated with the People’s Defense Force in Myanmar began conducting test firing of improvised rockets from production areas across the country, particularly in Sagaing Region in the northwest. A variety of models of improvised...
Mobius report IED Fitted with Electronic Delay Timer, Afrin, Syria
On March 20, 2022, bomb disposal officers from the Afrin Security Directorate, which is subordinate to the Syrian National Police and General Security Forces, neutralized an IED found in a residential area in the city of Afrin, in Aleppo Governorate,...
Mobius report IEDs in the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine
On March 4, 2022, three IEDs and an anti-tank mine were found by the Russian Federal Security Service in the Simferopol and Leninsky districts of Crimea, hidden under construction debris. Two of the IEDs were cased in metal jerrycans and...
Mobius report Russian Submunitions and Special Weapons in Ukraine
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, there has been widespread use by Russian military forces of a variety of different types of rockets and missiles carrying cluster bombs containing submunitions of various types, which have been...
Mobius report IS Bangladesh Instructional Video for Preparing an RCIED with an Anti-Disturbance Feature
On October 14, 2021, a Bengali-language Telegram channel affiliated with the Islamic State shared an instructional video showing how to prepare two similar models of IEDs with RC initiation systems. The main method of initiation proposed in the video included...
Mobius report IED Workshops Raided by DNR Forces, Donetsk, Ukraine
On March 4, 2022, Donetsk People’s Republic forces, in the framework of Operation Mariupol Caldron, recovered improvised drone bomblets, as well as various standard weapons, including mortar shells, at a “Bears” militia base specializing in UAV operations in the village...
Mobius report Islamic State Weapons in the Philippines – Progression
On March 1, 2022, Philippines security forces raided an Islamic State compound in Maguing, in Lanao del Sur Province, in the Philippines. Large quantities of weapons were seized, including standard weapons and ammunition, as well as modified weapons based on...
Mobius report IS Plot Incorporating Three Simultaneous PBIED Attacks Thwarted, Beirut, Lebanon
On February 23, 2022, the Lebanese Interior Ministry announced it had thwarted a complex suicide bombing attack by a Palestinian Islamic State cell from the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah religious centers in Beirut. According to...
Mobius report 15/2022 – Turkish MIT IEDs, Syria
On February 17, 2022, the Kurdish-majority Syrian Democratic Forces’ Manbij Military Council released documentation of two IEDs seized from a Syrian citizen, allegedly operated by agents of Turkey’s National Intelligence, and intended to undermine military forces and targets identified with...
Mobius report 17/2022 – IS Plot Incorporating Three Simultaneous PBIED Attacks Thwarted, Beirut, Lebanon
On February 23, 2022, the Lebanese Interior Ministry announced it had thwarted a complex suicide bombing attack by a Palestinian Islamic State cell from the Ain al-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah religious centers in Beirut. According to...
Mobius report 16/2022 – Improvised Shoulder-Fired Launchers, Myanmar
Beginning in December 2021, and especially during January and February 2022, as part of the improvised weapons production efforts of the many armed groups affiliated with the People’s Defense Force throughout Myanmar, particularly in Sagaing Region, in the northwest of...
Mobius report 14/2022 – TANCOL Weapons and Infrastructure Destroyed in FANB Operation in Venezuela
On January 16, 2022, the Venezuelan Army launched Operation Bolivarian Shield 22, aimed at rooting out Colombian militant groups operating in Apure, Venezuela, bordering Colombia, following an incursion by the ELN into the town of La Gabarra, in Guasdualito, Apure...
