Mobius Report – Progression in Militant Mortar Fire Capabilities, Myanmar
July 17, 2022Indirect fire capabilities, or high trajectory weapons, entered production and use by armed militias across Myanmar in mid-2021, gaining momentum toward the end of the year. Significant development was made mainly in Sagaing Region, in the northwest of the country....
Mobius Report – Assassinations of Officials and Collaborators in Occupied Ukrainian Cities
July 17, 2022On May 30, 2022, an IED initiation badly damaged a vehicle owned by the family of a pro-Russia politician in the center of Melitopol city. The politician was not in the vehicle at the time. Several people were reportedly injured...
Mobius Report – Improvised Ammunition Based on AT Warheads for Armed UAVs, Ukraine
July 17, 2022Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the use of all kinds of ammunition with armed UAVs has been documented, most of which were fragmentation bomblets with different point-detonating nose fuzes.On July 7, 2022, a Ukrainian mechanical...
Mobius Report – Improvised Release Dispensers for Improvised UAV Ammunition, Ukraine
July 17, 2022Armed drones have become common offensive weapons used by Ukrainian forces in recent months. Commercial payload dispensers were initially used to turn these platforms into armed drones, but more recently, there has been increased documentation of improvised and 3D printed...
Mobius Report – Al-Shabaab Armored SVBIED Attack Foiled, Baxdo, Galmudug State, Somalia
July 17, 2022On June 17, 2022, a large Al-Shabaab force attacked the Sufi town of Baxdo, in the Galguduud region of Galmudug State, in central Somalia. Somali security forces stationed in the area, along with armed local forces, waged a battle with...
Mobius Report – IEDs with Shaped Charge Warheads, Myanmar
July 17, 2022Between April 30 and June 19, 2022, the Khin-U People Defense Force, a militia operating in Khin-U Township, in Sagaing Region, in northwestern Myanmar, released documentation of its operatives preparing a singular IED model. All of the preparation and assembly...
Mobius report 41/2022 – Thwarted RCIED Attack with RC Initiation System Set, Syria
July 17, 2022On April 22, 2022, Turkish security forces thwarted an attempted smuggling of explosives from Syria to Turkey near the border town of Ras al-Ayn, in Al-Hasakah Governorate, in northeastern Syria. Acting on intelligence information, security forces that arrived in the...
Hydra – Hurras al-Tawheed: New Star in the Jihadi Propaganda Scene
June 8, 2022In the past three months, a new, anonymous, jihadi group named Hurras al-Tawheed has surfaced, replete with a spokesman, a media wing and several propagandist products, including a bi-weekly magazine titled, “O Mujahideen in the West.” Hosting under Al-Qaeda’s Gnews...
Mobius report – PKK IEDs and Initiation Systems Recovered in Northern Iraq
June 3, 2022On April 18, 2022, Turkey launched a new phase of the extensive military operation it is conducting in the area close to its southern border, in northern Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, aimed at eradicating the presence of militants of the Kurdistan...
