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Mobius 28/2024 – Iranian Weapons Seized in Israel

On March 25, 2024, it was announced that the Israel Defense Forces and the Israel Security Agency had seized a large quantity of weapons smuggled from Iran to the West Bank. The seized items included various explosives, unique IEDs, mines,...
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Mobius 27/2024 – Thwarted Smuggling of IED Components into Russia

On April 2, 2024, the Russian Federal Security Service announced the dismantling of a smuggling network involved in trafficking explosives and initiation systems concealed inside Russian Orthodox Church icons and church accessories from Ukraine into Russia via European Union countries....
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Mobius 26/2024 – Improvised Mechanical Grenades Produced in the Philippines

During February, March and April 2024, Philippine security forces raided camps of groups allied with the New People’s Army, in Abra Province, in the north of the country.During the raids, various equipment was seized, including weapons, small arms ammunition, IEDs,...
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TGA0784 – Iranian Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Since early 2024, cumulative evidence of the use of unmanned underwater vehicles in the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea has emerged. On January 28, 2024, various weapons were seized by US forces aboard a dhow in the Arabian Sea,...
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TGA0783 – FGM-148 Javelin Battery Modified for Use as Rechargeable Battery, Ukraine

Due to a shortage of non-rechargeable batteries for the FGM-148 Javelin man-portable anti-tank system, in early 2024, a Ukrainian combatant published a detailed tutorial showing how to modify the Javelin’s non-rechargeable batteries into chargeable batteries. The modification requires the addition...
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TGA0782 – Fiber-Optic Cable-Guided FPV Drone-Based Loitering Munitions, Ukraine

Recently, Russian forces were observed using an FPV racing drone-based improvised loitering munition fitted with a PG round and guided via a fiber-optic cable, rather than the usual UAV wireless datalink transmission. Fiber-optic cables have been weaponized for years, used...
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