TGA0857 – Undesignated Shiite Proxy Loitering Munition Found in Iraq
October 30, 2025On 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...
Mobius report 79/2025 – RCIEDs Used by Babbar Khalsa International, India
October 30, 2025During October 2025, two incidents involving a black rectangular-shaped IED were documented in the Punjab region of northern India. On October 9, 2025, a Babbar Khalsa International terror cell was uncovered in Jalandhar, Punjab. Two operatives were arrested, and an...
Mobius report 78/2025 – Turkish UAVs in Africa
October 29, 2025Between July and September 2025, the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan documented three types of UAVs operated by the Sudanese Armed Forces across multiple regions. They recorded wreckage and, in some cases, associated munitions – confirming the active deployment of...
Mobius report 77/2025 – Ukrainian-Produced PMD-6 Mines
October 29, 2025In early October 2025, detailed documentation of an improvised metal-cased PMD-type anti-personnel mine, reportedly deployed by Ukrainian forces via UAV, was circulated on a Russian military-focused Telegram channel. The mine features a modified mechanism, where the T-shaped firing pin is...
Mobius report 76/2025 – Multi-Role Tarik UGV Used by Russian Forces
October 29, 2025On September 28, 2025, Ukrainian forces posted documentation of a unique RC initiation system for a large payload mounted on a Tarik UGV VBIED. The multi-role Tarik platform has been employed frequently in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts in Ukraine, for...
TGA0856 – IEDs Camouflaged as Hollow Logs and Tree Bark, Ukraine
October 28, 2025On 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...
TGA0855 – Russian TsBTS Delta Wing UAV
October 28, 2025On 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...
TGA0854 – Russian Improvised EFP Designed for UAV Release
October 23, 2025Between 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...
Mobius report 75/2025 – Geran-3 Loitering Munition and Developments in the Geran-2
October 21, 2025On September 18, 2025, Ukrainian forces recovered an intact, turbojet-powered Geran loitering munition near Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine. Inspection identified it as a Geran-3 fitted with a standard OFZBCh-50 (50 kg) fragmentation-incendiary warhead. The Geran-3 continues the Geran family lineage...
