Category: TGAlerts

Around October 2024, the Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine, in partnership with “Brave1” and the Ministry of Digital Transformation, hosted a demonstration day to showcase new Ukrainian precision-guided homing bomblets deployed from drones. The presented bomblets reportedly feature a...

In October 2024, Russian forces recovered a crashed Ukrainian balloon with an improvised payload. Unlike in previous balloon-borne IED attack attempts, the payload of the balloon on this occasion was much larger and was based on a guided munition –...

In late October 2024, a video  was posted on Telegram showcasing the interception of a Russian Gerbera UAV filmed by an attacking Ukrainian FPV racing drone. The Gerbera UAV is being increasingly used by Russian forces, mostly as a decoy...

During September 2024, several Ukrainian and Russian videos were posted online revealing rotary-wing UAVs nicknamed “Dragon Drones,” equipped with an improvised incendiary device that disperses thermite substances to burn forests and uncover enemy movements or positions. The first to employ...

In late July 2024, a Wagner Group-Malian Armed Forces convoy was ambushed near Tinzaouatene, Mali, by both Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin and the Azawad Cadre Stratégique Permanent. In the ensuing battle, Wagner suffered its largest loss in Africa to date...

During the past month, two unusual VBIED incidents occurred in the West Bank, in Israel. One was a synchronized VBIED attack on August 30, 2024, targeting Gush Etzion and Carmei Tzur, whose full realization was prevented. The other was a...

In late August 2024, a Ukrainian Telegram channel published documentation of improvised mines attached to FPV racing drones, claiming the drones are used to lay the improvised mines by Russian forces. The improvised mines attached to FPV drones were fitted...

Between August 25 and 26, 2024, the Baloch Liberation Army conducted “Operation Herof,” which consisted of 44 different attacks carried out in the span of 20 hours. This carefully coordinated operation incorporated several tactics, employed simultaneously, which enabled the BLA...

In late June 2024, Russian combat-related Telegram channels began circulating images of a new type of Ukrainian IED seized by Russian forces near roads and railroads in different locations. The IEDs were described as improvised shaped charges comprising cast explosives...

In recent months, Russian forces have discovered a number of light, fixed-wing aircraft modified for use as weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles. Electronics and camera equipment installed in the cockpit of the aircraft enabled them to be used as unmanned aircraft....

Between July 18 and July 27, 2024, two noteworthy attacks were carried out in Israel by Iranian proxy groups. The first was a loitering munition attack in western Tel Aviv by the Houthis, and the second was a Falaq-1 rocket...

On August 15, 2024, which marked India’s 78th Independence Day, the United Liberation Front of Assam-Independent published a statement claiming they had planted 25 IEDs in different locations across the state of Assam, in northeast India, as an act of...

Drone operators in combat zones encounter various challenges related to signal jamming or more advanced methods of GPS spoofing. In July 2023, a team of anonymous Russian hackers announced the development of PCBs designed to protect UAVs from the GPS...

Starting early June 2024, increased documentation of improvised fixed-wing loitering munitions with standard payloads modified with improvised electric initiation systems used by Russian forces have appeared on Russian Telegram channels. Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Russian...

On June 24, 2024, an Israel Defense Forces combat engineering vehicle was targeted by a Chinese “Red Arrow” ATGM of the HJ-8L variant, in the Tel-Za’arab neighborhood, in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip. The attack was documented with four cameras...