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...
Mobius report 74/2022 – Attacks Targeting Electricity Infrastructure, Eastern Ukraine
November 11, 2022Early on the morning of September 29, 2022, an explosion occurred in the city of Henichesk, located between the villages of Plavskoe and Sokolohornoe, in Kherson Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. An IED attack had targeted electricity towers of the Dzhankoy-Melitopol...
Mobius report 73/2022 – Improvised Rotary Wing Loitering Munition Payloads, Ukraine
November 11, 2022In September and October 2022, increased documentation of improvised loitering munitions based on rotary wing FPV racing drones appeared online, some with better visual information of the improvised payloads used. One such UAV was a Russian quadcopter with a fragmentation...
