Category: Mobius

In early October 2025, detailed documentation of an improvised metal-cased PMD-type anti-personnel mine, reportedly deployed by Ukrainian forces via UAV, was circulated on a Russian military-focused Telegram channel. The mine features a modified mechanism, where the T-shaped firing pin is...

On September 28, 2025, Ukrainian forces posted documentation of a unique RC initiation system for a large payload mounted on a Tarik UGV VBIED. The multi-role Tarik platform has been employed frequently in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts in Ukraine, for...

On September 18, 2025, Ukrainian forces recovered an intact, turbojet-powered Geran loitering munition near Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine. Inspection identified it as a Geran-3 fitted with a standard OFZBCh-50 (50 kg) fragmentation-incendiary warhead. The Geran-3 continues the Geran family lineage...

Ongoing publication of Russian military UAV catalogs and manuals enables sustained analysis of Russian drone warfare – platforms, specifications, manufacturers, and trends. The field manual analyzed in this report details UAVs used by Russian forces in Ukraine, including rotary-wing FPV...

During the first half of 2025, Russian military sources documented multiple incidents in which, according to reports, Ukrainian forces employed incendiary charges attached to UAS to ignite Russian targets. In some incidents, the IIDs were improvised from bottles containing a...

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, new hand grenades produced by Russian and Ukrainian defense industries have been deployed on the battlefield. These grenades serve diverse functions – thermobaric, unique fragmentation designs, tear gas, and incendiary – commonly...

Russian forces are now routinely employing Molnya fixed-wing improvised loitering munitions in combat. Operational footage of these UAS striking Ukrainian targets is being published on Russian Telegram channels on a near-weekly basis, underscoring their widespread deployment. The standardized fixed-wing platform...

On September 11, 2025, the Islamic State-affiliated Al-Saqri Foundation for Military Sciences published an instructional manual titled “Remote-Controlled VBIEDs Manual.” The document details a system for converting a vehicle into a remotely-driven and remotely-initiated VBIED, enabling remote guidance of an...

On June 22, 2025, an attack occurred at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Elias in the Dweil’a neighborhood of southern Damascus. According to reports, at least 25 people were killed and 60 others were wounded. The Syrian Ministry of...

On August 25, 2025, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation claimed it had thwarted a terrorist attack in Crimea (annexed by Russia in 2014), allegedly planned by the Security Service of Ukraine and targeting FSB personnel. A 54-year-old...

On  August 3, 2025, Venezuelan security forces foiled a terrorist plot involving an RCIED targeting the Plaza de la Victoria de la Gran Guerra Patria monument in a public square in Caracas, capital of Venezuela. The IED contained six seismic...

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, non-standard and irregular UAV warfare has rapidly developed and expanded in scope, perhaps more than any other method of warfare in this theater of operations. The mass use of both FPV racing...

On August 31, 2025, Pakistani security forces foiled a major terrorist plot near Tiarza Gate Garrison, along the Wana-Upper Waziristan road in South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A vehicle carrying gas cylinders and seven barrels of improvised explosives, weighing approximately...

On July 31, 2025, Russian forces neutralized an electronic circuit board initiation system for FPV racing drone-based improvised loitering munitions. Externally, the device is identical to an initiation system previously showcased on multiple Ukrainian social media channels and is part...

During the first half of 2025, particularly between March and July, numerous reports and extensive documentation highlighted the seizure of weapons by Myanmar’s junta forces and allied local militias in Kachin State and adjacent northern regions. These seizures were attributed...