Improve your munition knowledge with challenges using randomly selected imagery from the OSMP archive of munitions and remnants

Trevor Ball & N.R. Jenzen-Jones Overview Explosive munitions often leave distinctive physical traces that can provide valuable evidence about the circumstances of an attack. Among the most informative...

Unexploded Russian-made cluster munition bomblets have been found in northern Mali – despite the West African country being party to a convention that bans their use.

Bellingcat has identified at least 80 police stations or infrastructure related to law enforcement agencies and the Basij paramilitary group that has been damaged or destroyed in the first three weeks of the United States and Israel’s war against Iran. Experts told Bellingcat that both countries aim to degrade the Iranian regime’s “repressive capacity”. Combined, […]

Daniel and Christy Kinahan have been photographed in Dubai, marking the most recent sighting of the wanted crime bosses since the US levied sanctions against the cartel.

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Bellingcat is introducing an updated damage assessment tool — called the Iran Conflict Damage Proxy Map — focused on destruction in Iran and the Gulf .

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Explosives test in Canada. Source: Defence Research and Development Canada.

Analysis suggests there were at least two waves of strikes carried out in the area around the IRGC complex and adjacent girls' school.

US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, Iran.

A Dutch newspaper published a story about private evacuation flights from Dubai, but the photo shows signs of AI generation and the flights appear never to have existed.

Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.

Geolocated videos show Tomahawk missiles heading for targets in Iran.

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footag...

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The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has dropped 5,000 bombs on Iran since the United States and Israel launched an attack last week, according to a statement by the IAF on March 4. Bellingcat has monitored we...

Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

The US has released a list of military targets in Iran, including IRGC headquarters and missile systems. But Bellingcat has reviewed strikes against another type of target inside the Islamic Republic ...

Bellingcat has been monitoring strikes across the Middle East and has identified a wide variety of weapons that have been used in the conflict so far, including missiles and drones.

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