Mobius report 30/2022 – Instructional Videos for the Preparation of Improvised Electric Hand Grenades, Myanmar
May 3, 2022During December 2021, a Burmese YouTube channel posted a series of videos showing how to prepare improvised plastic fragmentation hand grenades from scratch. The grenade bodies are replicas of a standard hand grenade body widely used in Myanmar, both by...
Mobius report 29/2022 – IS Sinai Underbelly IED Fashioned from AT Rounds with Pressure Plate Initiation
May 3, 2022On April 11, 2022, Egyptian security forces operating in northern Sinai found and neutralized an underbelly IED buried underground. The IED consisted of a number of old anti-tank shells converted into an IED to which a pressure plate cased in...
Mobius report 28/2022 – Armed UAV Payloads, Myanmar – Progression
May 3, 2022Since armed UAVs first appeared in the battlefield in Myanmar in late 2021, the phenomenon has intensified considerably, especially in April 2022. The use of armed UAVs is unquestionably increasing, and while the technology was initially limited to just a...
Mobius report 27/2022 – ISWAP and Boko Haram Improvised Weapons, Nigeria, 2021-2022
May 3, 2022[vc_row pix_particles_check=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]On February 2, 2022, Mallam Ibrahim Maliya Saidu, a deputy commander of the Civilian Joint Task Force died when his vehicle ran over an underbelly IED on the Biu-Mandaragirau-Damboa-Maiduguri Road axis in Borno State. Underbelly IEDs planted on roads...
Mobius report 26/2022 – Belarussian Instructional Video for Modifying a VOG-17 Fuze for use as UAV Ammunition
May 3, 2022On April 5, 2022, an instructional video was posted on the Belarussian pro-Ukraine Sal autem in diaboli Telegram channel, illustrating the neutralization of the safety arming element from a VOG-17 fuze, to enable immediate initiation upon impacting the target when...
Mobius report 25/2022 – Scatterable Mines in Ukraine
May 3, 2022[vc_row pix_particles_check=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the use of a variety of scatterable mines (both anti-personnel and anti-tank) has been reported in focused areas of fighting, mostly in Kharkiv, in northeastern Ukraine....
TGA0685 IEDs Camouflaged to Resemble Roadside Markers, Myanmar
April 3, 2022During February and March 2022, security forces in northwestern Myanmar’s Sagaing Region seized a number of IEDs designed to resemble concrete right-of-way markers. In two of the incidents, the IEDs were encased in a cylindrical concrete camouflage sleeve, painted white...
TGA0684 The Islamic State Claims Two Attacks in Israel
April 3, 2022On the evening of March 27, 2022, two gunmen from Umm al-Fahem carried out a shooting attack in the middle of Hadera, a city in central Israel. The attack was claimed by the Islamic State, the first time the group...
TGA0683 Islamic State Al-Saqri Foundation Presents an Alternative Recipe for TATP
April 3, 2022On February 24, 2022, an instruction booklet entitled “Easy Explosives -8- TATP Preparation” was published on the Telegram channel of the Al-Saqri Foundation For Military Sciences. An in-depth study of this booklet revealed the instructions detailed within refer to the...
