Category: TGAlerts

Since the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, documentation of experimentational RC machine guns have begun to appear online. In a video published in July 2022, the remote firing of an RC tracked robot mobile machine gun was documented. This is a...

Since June 2022, both the Ukrainian and Russian sides have released documentation of quadcopters used as rotary wing loitering munitions against enemy positions. The quadcopters are packed with explosives and have been documented exploding upon impact. The use of rotary...

On July 26, 2022, the preparation and launch of a loitering munition named the Murad-6 was documented by the Iraqi Saraya Ababeel group, who claimed they used it in an attack against Turkish bases in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region. Close-up...

On July 19, 2022, Russian mass media sources posted a video report, showing a workshop of Ukrainian forces, located in Lysychansk (Luhansk Oblast.) In the video, a soldier from the Ahmad Battalion (a special unit, part of the troops of...

In early February 2022, security forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo neutralized a booby-trapped corpse placed by militants of the Islamic State’s Central Africa Province on the side of a road near the village of Mukoko, north of the...

In mid-July 2022, Russia’s ZALA Lancet-3 was documented in Zaporizhzhia and the Yavkovo area, in Ukraine. The Lancet is the second type of Russian loitering munition to be documented in Ukraine, along with the ZALA KUB. Before the Russian invasion...

On July 8, 2022, the former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated by a lone wolf assailant, Tetsuya Yamagami, with an improvised dual barrel gun (sometimes referred to as a Zip Gun.) The weapon appears to have been...

On June 20, 2022, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation captured an alleged supporter of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in Chita, Transbaikal, in the Russian Far East. The detainee is a Russian citizen, who reportedly planned to carry out...

As part of an escalation in the security situation in Manipur, a series of bombings targeting pharmacies have taken place in the city recently. On June 10, 2022, an IED fitted with a mobile phone-based RC initiation system, planted near...

On June 15, 2022, the Islamic State-affiliated Al-Saqri Foundation for Military Science published its first issue of its Remote Detonation Series in the Arabic language. The instructions are divided into two parts: the first part explains the known, familiar modification...

After the initial progress of the invading Russian forces became mired in different fighting areas, they switched in the latest phase of the war to an offensive to cut off Ukrainian resistance in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions. Ukrainian forces...

On May 25, 2022, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province carried out three simultaneous IED attacks targeting three minivans transporting Shia Hazaras in Mazar-i Sharif. Two of the attacks occurred within a few minutes of each other in PD-10, while...

Since January 2022, there have been three separate IED attacks targeting buses in the Philippines. All three attacks had a similar TTP – the IED was placed in the back of the bus under one of the seats and was...

Promotion poster for Al-Saqri Foundation’s anthrax manual, the fourth section in the media unit’s “Easy toxin / biological warfare” series In early May 2022, the veteran Islamic State-aligned online media unit, the Al-Saqri Foundation for Military Sciences, published a new...

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Orlan-10 drones have been documented on numerous occasions in all areas of conflict across the country. Most of the documentation shows the more familiar use of the Orlan-10 as a...