Category: TGAlerts

For the first time in the Black Sea, what appears to be an unmanned surface vessel serving as a water-borne IED was documented near Sevastopol. The vessel was found drifting toward the shore and incorporated components that resemble sensors, camera,...

Visual documentation published since the end of August 2022, and throughout September 2022, suggests standard units of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as its affiliated units have diversified their use of improvised ammunition for their weaponized quadcopters. While most...

During August 2022, coca growers in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, clashed repeatedly with police forces regarding the opening of an illegal coca market allegedly supported by the government. What started out as protest marches rapidly escalated into violent clashes...

In August 2022, a militant group aligned with the People’s Defense Force, based in Sagaing Region, in northwestern Myanmar, published footage showing a prototype self-produced, six-barrel launcher, mounted on the roof of a civilian vehicle, with firing controlled via six...

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...