Category: Reports

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...

Since September 2023, several publications on Russian Telegram channels involved in the support of Russian engineering units have revealed the mass production of improvised anti-personnel mines in Russia. These are copies of the Soviet PMD-6, produced using available materials and...

On October 3, 2023, several police officers were injured, one seriously, after they were called to investigate a banner hung on a bush near Moo No. 6, Ban Pa Sak area, Panare District, in Pattani Province, in southern Thailand. The...