Category: Reports

In early 2024, documentation of IEDs in the Mali area was posted on a Telegram channel associated with Russian Wagner Private Military Company forces. The images of the IEDs and components were mainly intended to serve as a guide for...

Since April 2024, Russian sources have reported several cases of UAVs deployed as improvised loitering munitions carrying explosive payloads fitted with spring-vibration switch initiation systems in Ukraine. These spring-based PCB systems appear to be manufactured by several different Ukrainian manufacturers,...

Throughout the months of fighting in the Gaza Strip since the deadly October 7, 2023 attack, the Palestinian terrorist organizations operating in Gaza have documented their use of various Israel Defense Forces’ weapons and ammunition, some stolen from the forces...

Since the expansion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian instructors suggested using the safety primer of an MDZ incendiary bullet for two types of modifications: the first modification suggested by instructors is utilizing it in improvised impact fuzes in...

During June and July 2024, operational documentation of the use of a net deployed from Russian UAVs to down Ukrainian UAVs was posted on Russian social networks.Experiments with UAV net deployment were recently documented by the Ukrainians, but we have...

On July 10, 2024, an IED was found and neutralized by an EOD unit next to a bus stop in Moo No. 1, in Ban Na Ket, in Khok Pho District, Pattani Province, in southern Thailand.The IED comprised a fire...

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...