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DIVERSION DIGEST – ISSUE 05

This fifth edition of CAR’s Diversion Digest presents cases from the field showing how field monitoring and trace investigations support a range of upstream efforts to address the threat of improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

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DIVERSION DIGEST – n° 05

Lutter contre la prolifération illicite et le détournement de produits utilisés dans la fabrication d’engins explosifs improvisés (EEI).

موجز تحويل الاستخدام

مكافحة تحويل استخدام والانتشار غير المشروع للمواد المستخدمة في تصنيع العبوات الناسفة المرتجلة

IRANIAN AM-50 12.7 × 99 MM ANTI-MATERIEL RIFLE

For this Technical Report, a CAR field investigation team disassembled a recovered AM-50 anti-materiel rifle and comprehensively documented its component parts. This report provides a technical analysis of each of these components, highlighting key identifying features and yielding new insight into Iran’s weapon manufacturing practices.

DEVELOPING RFID SOLUTIONS IN SUPPORT OF STOCKPILE MANAGEMENT AND POST-DIVERSION TRACING

As part of the European Union-funded ‘Field Forensic Firearms Exploitation’ (F3E) project, CAR and implementing partner TTE-Europe GmbH are developing innovative solutions to enhance the capability of states to manage and trace SALW, using radio frequency identification (RFID) transponders. This report discusses the research and development activities conducted during 2020.

DIVERSION DIGEST – ISSUE 2

This second edition of CAR’s Diversion Digest analyses a sample of end-user documents in CAR’s archive that relate to actual deliveries of conventional weapons and ammunition. The analysis finds increased risk of illicit arms transfers due to “deeply inconsistent” export certification practices.

CONVENTIONAL AMMUNITION DIVERSION

This technical report addresses the need for a supply chain security approach to detect and react to cases of diversion of conventional ammunition. Based on CAR’s field data, this report profiles how ammunition is commonly diverted, outlines the limitations in how international arms control instruments address this issue, and details the mutually reinforcing control measures that make up ‘ammunition supply chain security.’ 

DIVERSION DIGEST – ISSUE 1

This first edition of CAR’s Diversion Digest presents a statistical analysis of how weapons diversion occurs. It looks at more than a thousand cases where weapons and ammunition have been captured, lost, stolen or otherwise diverted to illicit actors, and considers how the international Arms Trade Treaty might address these main causes of diversion.