Mobius 20/2024 – Official Russian Manual for UAV Crew Operations
April 1, 2024In late February 2024, a 30-page document from the Russian General Staff concerning the military use of FPV drones surfaced on Ukrainian social media platforms. Published in early 2024 by the Joint Military Grouping in Ukraine, the manual is specifically...
Mobius 19/2024 – Improvised Electric Grenades Thrown at Mayor and Police Officers, Pattani, Thailand
March 28, 2024On March 10, 2024, at 9:56 AM, an explosion took place at Café Amazon within the premises of a PTT gas station in Ban Nad Khamis, situated in Pattani Province’s Thung Yang Daeng District, near Road 4071, after two improvised...
Mobius 18/2024 – Victim-Operated IEDs Imitating POM-2 Mines, Ukraine
March 26, 2024In February and March 2024, documentation of Ukrainian IEDs released from UAVs were published on Russian Telegram channels dedicated to military EOD. The IEDs mimic the standard Russian POM-2 tripwire-actuated scatterable mine but are improvised and initiated electrically. Get the full...
Mobius 17/2024 – OFBCh-3 Ammunition for Russian Weaponized UAVs, Ukraine
March 26, 2024Since the beginning of 2024, OFBCh-3 ammunition for weaponized UAVs used by Russia began to appear on the battlefield in Ukraine. In Russian documentation that has recently surfaced, considerable use of the OFBCh-3 ammunition has been observed. OFBCh-3 is mainly...
TGA0780 – Javelin Case Booby-Trapped with a Photoresistor, Ukraine
March 24, 2024On August 22, 2023, Russian soldiers documented a VOIED planted by retreating Ukrainian forces at one of their positions. The booby trap comprised an explosive payload camouflaged in a Javelin ATGM transit case. The payload appears to have been rigged...
TGA0779 – Weaponized UAV Lure TTP, Krynky, Ukraine
March 21, 2024On March 3, 2024, a Ukrainian Telegram channel published footage of a small UAV intended to lure an enemy soldier toward it before exploding. Upon making contact with the UAV to retrieve it and extract information, the explosive payload would...
TGA0778 – RG-Vo Gas Grenades with Chloroacetophenone Agent, Ukraine
March 19, 2024On December 14, 2023, a new type of gas grenades was used in an attack by a small armed UAV operated by Russian forces in Ukraine. The grenade contained an unknown chemical substance that was subsequently analyzed, revealing traces of...
Hydra report February 2024
March 17, 2024This month’s In Focus analyzes the Islamic State campaign against the general elections in Pakistan. The campaign included intensive dissemination of propaganda materials calling for a boycott of the elections and maintaining the known tone against the Pakistani regime and the...
Mobius 16/2024 – New RC Initiation System for Russian Sensor-Based Booby Traps, Ukraine
March 13, 2024On January 10, 2024, online documentation appeared of a PIR sensor-based initiation system reportedly found in Sumy Oblast, in northeastern Ukraine. According to the publication, this device was used to initiate a directional fragmentation charge, resulting in the deaths of...
