Category: Mobius

On August 28, 2023, documentation of a sandal IED surfaced on Afghan social media, with reports claiming it was intended to be used by a Tajik Islamic State Khorasan Province suicide bomber in a PBIED assassination targeting the Taliban’s senior...

On August 24, 2023, the Achilles UAV unit of the 92nd Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine posted a video documenting their disassembling of a US-made 155 mm M483A1 artillery cluster bomb carrying dozens of M42 and M46 submunitions...

In the past year, there have been numerous incidents involving Al-Shabaab’s use of RC initiation systems. Among the variety of RC systems, which includes mobile phones, vehicle alarm systems and commercial systems, the use of RC systems formerly branded by...

On July 29, 2023, a large explosion occurred at a fireworks warehouse in Su-ngai Kolok District, in Narathiwat Province, in southern Thailand, on the border with Malaysia. At least 12 people were killed in the blast and dozens more were...

On August 16, 2023, the Federal Security Service of Russia announced the capture of a Ukrainian reconnaissance and sabotage unit in Starodubsky District, in Bryansk Oblast, Russia, close to Russian-Ukrainian border. The day before, another group was captured in the...

On August 17, 2023, the National Police of Peru discovered a large cache of weapons in an area called Cerro Galalini, in Tintay Punco District, in Tayacaja Province, in the Huancavelica Region, in the VRAEM. The recovered items were associated...

On the night of July 17, 2023, Russian authorities reported the Crimean Bridge had been attacked for the second time since the beginning of Russian-Ukrainian war. As a result of the attack, two people were killed and one was injured....

On August 9, 2023, two armed groups affiliated with the People’s Defense Force operating in the Mandalay Region, in central Myanmar, published a video showing its members preparing the bodies of improvised stick grenades. The grenades, of a uniform model,...

In mid-February 2023, Puntland security forces in Somalia neutralized RCIEDs at two different locations. The area where the IEDs were found, and their configuration and initiation systems, were dissimilar to IEDs typically used by Al-Shabaab in northern Somalia and other...

On April 15, 2023, an instructional video was published on a Ukrainian YouTube channel, explaining in detail how to convert a standard PG-7L fuze into an improvised mechanical base-detonating fuse. The modified fuse enables the PG warhead to be used...