Category: TGAlerts

The conflict in Ukraine has driven the rapid development of diverse solutions to counter the threat posed by FPV racing drone-based improvised loitering munitions. Recent documentation indicates both sides are employing illuminator and projector devices that appear to emit infrared...

Since late November 2025, Ukraine has launched a series of successful uncrewed surface vessel water-borne IED attacks targeting Russia-linked oil tankers in the Black Sea and adjacent maritime areas. Most of the targeted vessels were sailing under foreign flags; however,...

During December 2025, open-source imagery documented Geran-2 multi-role unmanned aerial system configured to carry R-60 air-to-air missiles. Multiple warhead variants, as well as added payloads for submunition dispersal, have previously been documented on the platform; however, this particular modification raised...

On November 30, 2025, the Balochistan Liberation Front conducted a complex attack on a Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters in Chagai, Balochistan. The raid began with an SVBIED attack, conducted by a female operative, marking the group’s first deployment of a...

Unmanned ground vehicles continue to be deployed for various military assignments in the Russian-Ukrainian theater of operations. Increasing numbers of these systems are used to conduct offensives with RCIEDs mounted on them. This tactic is typically documented with substantial explosive...

Since early 2025, media outlets aligned with both the junta regime and anti-junta militias have published imagery documenting the use of fiber-optic-guided FPV drones and improvised loitering munitions in combat. These outlets have primarily shown seized or intercepted systems, including...

October 14, 2025, at approximately 6:35 PM, a VBIED initiated in the parking area outside the 100 Business Plaza building, part of the Mall del Sol commercial complex on Joaquín Orrantia González Avenue in Guayaquil, Guayas Province, Ecuador. The explosion...

Between July and October 2025, documentation of fiber-optic-guided drones used by militants in Mali, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sudan was posted online. These first appearances of fiber-optic-guided drones in Africa are likely influenced by the introduction of electronic...

Amid a surge in terrorist attacks by militant jihadi groups in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, the primary terrorist actors – Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group – have begun demonstrating a growing tendency to utilize Improvised Rocket-Assisted Munitions....

On October 24, 2025, the Directorate of Explosive Control (Baghdad) posted a video depicting its personnel inspecting an undesignated downed UAV. The same type of loitering munition had been previously documented in use by both Lebanese Hezbollah and the Islamic Resistance...

On October 15, 2025, a Russian Telegram channel affiliated with a combat engineer battalion posted images of two IEDs camouflaged as hollow logs and  tree bark in Ukraine. The post described a metal tube wrapped in bark containing a main...

On June 23, 2025, Ukrainian forces documented an unidentified delta-wing UAV, designated TsBTS (Russian: ЦБТС). According to official Ukrainian military sources, this particular UAV is likely employed for reconnaissance and decoy functions during Geran-2 attack waves. The documented UAV is...

Between August and October 2025, a new type of shaped-charge IED, designed for release from a UAV, was documented in the Ukrainian theater. Images of the device were primarily shared on Russian combat-focused Telegram channels, where it was identified as...

On October 3, 2025, a video was posted on a Mexican Telegram channel showing the first documentation of a fiber-optic-guided FPV drone, reportedly filmed in a remote area of Sinaloa. Previously, on September 25, 2025, the Mexican Ministry of Security...

During the past month, a rocket-production cell in the Ramallah area was exposed following a test launch from the village of Ni’ama toward Israel. The exposure prompted raids in Surda and Beitunia, where rockets at various stages of production and...