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...
Hydra – Cyber Jihad: Apps for Safe Communication Recommended by Chechen Jihadi Telegram Channel
October 18, 2022On September 8, 2022, a Chechen jihadi-associated Telegram channel posted an instructional video explaining how to use the aTox application – a free mobile messenger – using the Tox protocol. The app is recommended by the channel’s author as a...
TGA0709 – Intensified IS Activity and Attacks in Al-Hol Camp, Syria
October 11, 2022Recently, there has been an escalation in militant activity in the Al-Hol refugee camp in Syria, manifested in several ways – an increase in weapons seized from Islamic State operatives in the camp, an increase in armed confrontations between IS...
TGA0708 – USV WBIED Washes Ashore in Sevastopol, Crimea, Russia
October 11, 2022For the first time in the Black Sea, what appears to be an unmanned surface vessel serving as a water-borne IED was documented near Sevastopol. The vessel was found drifting toward the shore and incorporated components that resemble sensors, camera,...
TGA0707 – Progression of Improvised UAV Ammunition Used by Russian Forces, Ukraine
October 11, 2022Visual documentation published since the end of August 2022, and throughout September 2022, suggests standard units of the Russian Armed Forces, as well as its affiliated units have diversified their use of improvised ammunition for their weaponized quadcopters. While most...
TGA0706 – Commercial HE-Based IEDs used by Farmers in Protests, La Paz, Bolivia
October 11, 2022During August 2022, coca growers in the Bolivian capital, La Paz, clashed repeatedly with police forces regarding the opening of an illegal coca market allegedly supported by the government. What started out as protest marches rapidly escalated into violent clashes...
Mobius report 72/2022 – Iranian Delta-Wing Loitering Munitions Used by Russia in Ukraine
October 11, 2022On September 25, 2022, four loitering munitions were launched toward the city of Odesa, which lies on the shores of the Black Sea, in southwestern Ukraine. Three of them impacted an administrative building used by the Ukrainian Army’s Operational Command...
