# Unmanned Africa

Unmanned Systems In Africa

- Site: https://www.unmanned.africa/

## Incomar Unveils Drone, Munition and Avionics Suite at AAD 2026

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/incomar-unveils-drone-munition-and-avionics-suite-at-aad-2026/
- Published: 2026-10-12T19:44:14+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

South African aerospace and defence company Incomar used the Africa Aerospace and Defence (AAD) exhibition at Air Force Base Waterkloof in September to debut a set of unmanned aircraft, avionics…

## Nigeria’s Proforce Builds PF Meteor FPV Strike Drone Family

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/nigerias-proforce-builds-pf-meteor-fpv-strike-drone-family/
- Published: 2026-10-12T19:29:04+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

Proforce Limited, the Ogun State-based company that built its name making armoured vehicles for the Nigerian army, has been quietly expanding its aerospace arm into something considerably more offensive. Proforce…

## Unmanned Ground Vehicles Are Arriving on Africa’s Battlefields

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/unmanned-ground-vehicles-are-arriving-on-africas-battlefields/
- Published: 2026-10-12T06:42:06+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

In September 2019, an Estonian infantry platoon patrolling Gao, in northern Mali, tried something new: it sent a small tracked robot down the street ahead of its soldiers. The machine…

## Nigerian, Rwanda Military Delegations Watch ASELSAN’s Korkut 35 Down Drones in Turkey

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/nigerian-rwanda-military-delegations-watch-aselsans-korkut-35-down-drones-in-turkey/
- Published: 2026-10-09T08:29:15+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

Delegations from Rwanda and Nigeria were among the foreign military and industry observers present at ASELSAN’s Korkut 35 live-fire demonstration at the Karapınar Test and Evaluation Group Command near Konya,…

## How High Can African-owned Military Drones Fly?

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/how-high-can-military-drones-fly/
- Published: 2026-09-17T06:16:57+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

Military drones fly anywhere from under 400 feet, the altitude a cheap FPV kamikaze drone typically holds on its final attack run, to more than 60,000 feet, the cruising altitude…

## Al-Shabaab’s Drones Comes Out of Yemen

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/al-shabaabs-drones-comes-out-of-yemen/
- Published: 2026-09-16T07:04:00+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

United Nations monitors have documented a Houthi weapons and training pipeline into Somalia that goes well beyond informal contact between two allied militant groups, according to a series of UN…

## Somalia: Al-Shabaab, AFRICOM, and a New IS Rival in the Sky

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/somalia-al-shabaab-africom-and-a-new-is-rival-in-the-sky/
- Published: 2026-09-14T20:03:01+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

Somalia is running two parallel drone stories at once, and only one of them gets regular coverage. The familiar one is the steady drumbeat of US Africa Command airstrikes against…

## Are Unmanned Systems a new Frontier of CT and COIN Operations in Africa?  

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/are-unmanned-systems-a-new-frontier-of-ct-and-coin-operations-in-africa/
- Published: 2026-09-14T14:24:52+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

Emerging technologies such as unmanned systems may help African militaries fight non-state armed groups, but militaries across the continent must look beyond the technologies themselves and adopt a force-employment framework…

## Cabo Delgado: Africa’s First Documented Case of Insurgent Drone Use

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/cabo-delgado-africas-first-documented-case-of-insurgent-drone-use/
- Published: 2026-09-14T11:45:29+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

Before Boko Haram’s imitators picked up armed quadcopters in the Sahel, before Somalia’s al-Shabaab turned reconnaissance drones into planning tools, and years before anyone in Nigeria’s northeast strapped a grenade…

## Sudan Fields Homegrown Attack Drone to Counter Jamming Threat

- Link: https://www.unmanned.africa/sudan-fields-homegrown-attack-drone-to-counter-jamming-threat/
- Published: 2026-09-14T11:24:17+00:00
- Author: Unmanned Africa

Sudan’s Military Industry Corporation (MIC), the state defence conglomerate, has fielded a domestically built loitering munition called the Safaroog, according to the corporation’s own disclosures and confirmed by Jane’s, marking…