In this month’s In Focus, in Afghanistan, after a period of about two months during which the Islamic State’s Khorasan Province was silent and did not claim responsibility for any attacks, the group returned in the past month in full...
Between February 18 and 24, 2023, an account associated with several militias in the People’s Defense Force published detailed documentation showing flight and operational tests of at least three models of fixed-wing drones with explosive payloads for use in various...
In the course of the Russia-Ukraine war, we have witnessed the widespread use of various types of unmanned aerial vehicles for attack purposes, by both sides. Although the Russians mainly use standard military UAS, including those manufactured by Iran, on...
On the night of February 28, 2023, several simultaneous UAS attacks were recorded in Russian regions. The loitering munitions were launched by Ukrainian forces, targeting different areas in Russia, including those located close to the Russia-Ukraine border, such as Krasnodar...
On the evening of March 11, 2023, an IED was discovered attached to a vehicle parked outside a private residence in Mayo District, in Pattani Province, in southern Thailand. The small IED, tied under the front part of the vehicle,...
In March 2023, several unmanned ground vehicles weaponized with anti-tank mines, anti-personnel mines and RPG launchers were showcased and tested in Ukraine. The phenomena of weaponized UGVs fitted with cameras that can be remotely guided and initiated has gained popularity...
In March 2023, documentation of the warhead and some internal components of a Lancet-3 loitering munition was published for the first time online. The images suggest the Lancet’s warhead is based on a KZ-6 shaped charge and the UAS has...
On February 23, 2023, a small boat smuggling weapons from Iran to Yemen was interdicted off the coast of Oman by a British Royal Navy frigate. Components for missiles, passive electro-optical surveillance systems, and seven Iranian Dehlavieh anti-tank guided missiles,...
During the past year, the trend of planting IEDs next to posters put up by Maoists has increased. The TTP is common in Maoist areas of activity in eastern India, such as Chhattisgarh, Telangana and especially Odisha.The idea is for...