Category: Mobius

On December 2, 2023, residents of the village of El Parotal, in Guererro State, reported they had downed two UAVs used in armed UAV attacks by the La Familia Michoacana cartel against their village and other communities in the mountainous...

On October 19, 2023, documentation of the Ukrainian production of improvised warheads for FPV-type improvised loitering munitions started to appear. The warheads are manufactured and delivered without explosives, to be filled by the end users in the battle zone. After...

Since June 2023, a Ukrainian volunteer unit responsible for the production of improvised bomblets, payload dispensers and other UAV accessories, has prepared and started to offer improvised initiation systems for use with FPV drone-based improvised loitering munitions and fixed-wing improvised...

On October 11, 2023, security forces in Myanmar discovered and neutralized six IEDs that had been planted on a bridge in Muse District, in Shan State, in eastern Myanmar, near the border with China. The VOIEDs were identical, with metal...

In late October and during the first half of November 2023, security forces in Myanmar and militias operating in the country documented the use of a similar model of improvised ammunition for armed drones intended for use in attacks against...

During the “Iron Swords / Al-Aqsa Flood” war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the State of Israel was attacked using various types of indirect weapons from different geographical areas by various organizations – all Iranian proxy groups....

Colombian security forces have documented numerous IED scenes and weapons caches uncovered during search and arrest operations in their war against armed groups in the country. In this framework, from time to time, we have identified new and creative initiation...

Over the past three years, we have seen an increasing use of large UAVs in Ecuador, the most common being various multirotors intended mainly for agricultural purposes. These UAVs are used by criminal organizations primarily for the purposes of transferring...

In the aftermath of the Hamas October 7, 2023, attack in southern Israel, during October and November 2023, documentation of previously unknown, unique weapons made by Hamas, intended for use against naval and aerial targets, surfaced. In the naval arena,...

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...