TGA0712 – Militants Target Military Maritime Vessels with IEDs and Improvised Weapons, Myanmar
November 11, 2022Over the past year, militants in Myanmar have been gradually increasing their experimentation and use of various attack TTPs to target military transportation and supply vessels on the country’s maritime routes, primarily the Irrawaddy and Chindwin rivers that flow adjacent...
TGA0711 – New Houthi Naval Bottom Mines and USV WBIEDs Unveiled, Sanaa, Yemen
November 11, 2022On September 21, 2022, the Iran-aligned Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis) unveiled, for the first time, during a military parade in Sanaa, two types of bottom naval mines, designated “Masjur.” According to the Houthis’ claims, the bottom mines are based...
TGA0710 – Attack by Female HPG Militants Targeting a Police Compound, Mersin, Turkey
November 11, 2022On September 26, 2022, two female militants of the armed wing of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party carried out an attack on a police compound south of Mersin city, which, according to CCTV footage, incorporated several explosions and an armed clash...
Mobius report 80/2022 – Crimean Bridge LVBIED Attack
November 11, 2022On October 8, 2022, at around 6 AM, a powerful explosion occurred on the Crimean road-and-rail Bridge, on the section leading from the Taman Peninsula, in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, to Kerch, in Russia-occupied Crimea. The explosion ignited seven fuel tanks...
Mobius report 79/2022 – VBIED Attacks on the Thailand-Myanmar Border
November 11, 2022On October 18, 2022, Myanmar security forces successfully neutralized a VBIED that had been parked in a commercial area in the center of Myawaddy town, in Kayin State, in eastern Myanmar. A large explosive payload had been placed in the...
Mobius report 78/2022 – Russian Shaped Charges Documented in the Ukrainian Arena
November 11, 2022Amid the continuation and intensification of the fighting in Ukraine, particularly between March 8 and October 4, 2022, the use of different standard shaped mines of Russian production to target infrastructure, by both the Russian and Ukrainian sides, was documented....
Mobius report 77/2022 – IED Attacks Targeting Buses, India
November 11, 2022On September 28, 2022, at around 10:20 PM, an IED initiated on an empty bus at the Baigra Petrol pump gas station in the Domel Chowk area of Udhampur, in Jammu and Kashmir. Two people were slightly injured as a...
Mobius report 76/2022 – IED-Maker Killed in Vehicle Explosion, Melitopol, Ukraine
November 11, 2022On September 25, 2022, an explosion occurred in a moving vehicle traveling on Lomonosov Street, in the city of Melitopol, in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in Ukraine. As a result of the explosion, the driver, a Ukrainian citizen, was killed, and the...
Mobius report 75/2022 – Armenian-Made Mines Used in Azerbaijan
November 11, 2022On September 24, 2022, Azerbaijani border security forces found a cluster of mines in Zangilan District, near the border with Armenia. The weapons were inscribed with Armenian markings. The cluster included mainly Claymore-type mines and two large bounding mines similar...
