Category: Reports

Since September 1, 2022, the commander of a Ukrainian UAV unit that operates in Bakhmut has showcased and analyzed case studies from the unit’s combat tactics, so other UAV operators can learn and improve their operations. Particularly interesting is the...

While sophisticated Russian firing devices have been frequently documented with mines in Ukraine, recent evidence shows the Russian use of the TM-83 off-route mine with its seismic and optic sensors, as well as directional AP fragmentation mines fitted with MVE-92...

On April 24, 2023, Ukraine launched a combined attack incorporating aerial loitering munitions and uncrewed surface vessel water-borne IEDs against the port of Sevastopol, in the Crimean Peninsula, where the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based. The use of USVs...

During March 2023, Taliban forces (currently governing Afghanistan) raided weapons depots and IED workshops of the Islamic State, where they found old standard weapons, explosives, IEDs and equipment for assembling them. In addition to these seizures, a new supply of...

On April 2, 2023, an explosion occurred at Street Food Bar № 1, located on the corner of 6-Ya Liniya V.o. and Leytenanta Shmidta embankment, in St. Petersburg, Russia. A well-known military blogger named Maxim Fomin, also known under the...

On April 22, 2023, Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin’ carried out a complex attack incorporating SVBIEDs combined with raids targeting a Malian Air Force base in the town of Sévaré, which also hosts Russian Wagner Group forces, who have increased...

On April 3, 2023, two images were posted on a Russian Telegram channel, showing the inside of a downed Ukrainian UAV. The aircraft appears to be a booby-trapped reconnaissance UAV. A comment on the image warned Ukrainian forces are increasingly...

On April 18, 2023, an IED was found and later neutralized near Moo No. 6 in the Ban Chue Nga area of Mueang Narathiwat District, in southern Thailand’s Narathiwat Province. The IED was connected to an initiation system cased in...

On November 13, 2022, an IED initiated on İstiklal Avenue, in Beyoğlu District, in the center of the Turkish city of Istanbul. The IED, which was concealed in a backpack, was placed on a bench in front of a Mango...

During March 2023, several militias operating in Sagaing Province, in northwestern Myanmar, released documentation of improvised mortar systems they manufactured that have entered operational service in attacks against military and security forces throughout the region. All of the presented mortar...

On March 27, 2023, two multiple IED attacks targeted electrical/communications infrastructure in different areas of Yangon Region in southern Myanmar. At both scenes, the militants used IEDs with similar initiation systems – a time delay module board and a commercial...