# 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 ](https://www.unmanned.africa/proforce-galaxies-displays-indigenous-c4isr-and-satellite-systems-at-nadcel/)
into something considerably more offensive. Proforce Airsystems, the company’s UAV
subsidiary led by Chief Executive Ade Ogundeyin, now [produces ](https://www.unmanned.africa/proforce-galaxies-displays-indigenous-c4isr-and-satellite-systems-at-nadcel/)
a full product line spanning eight platforms, from fixed-wing intelligence, surveillance
and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft to loitering munitions, making it one of the few
private defence companies in sub-Saharan Africa to have moved from concept to verified
operator contact entirely within the domestic market. At the centre of that line
are two First-Person View (FPV) tactical UAVs, the PF Meteor 1 and the PF Meteor
2.

The Meteor family’s emergence is worth examining in the context of everything happening
around it. Nigeria is simultaneously dealing with ISWAP’s own armed FPV drones attacking
military outposts in Borno State, a [counter-drone buildup](https://www.unmanned.africa/nigerias-scramble-for-counter-drone-capability/)
that has seen the Nigerian Air Force train on new radar systems and handheld jammers,
and a broader push by domestically funded startups like Terra Industries to fill
the capability gap ISWAP has been exploiting with commercial technology. Proforce
Airsystems is part of that same wave, and the Meteor platforms represent its contribution
to the most immediate tactical problem: how a Nigerian soldier closes a target without
flying something that costs more than it destroys.

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### Two Platforms, One Design Logic

The PF Meteor 1 is the baseline aircraft in the family. Proforce Airsystems describes
it as a 7-inch FPV tactical UAV, meaning the frame size common to high-performance
racing quadcopters, though here adapted for military payload and range rather than
agility alone. Its published specifications show a 25-minute flight time, a 30-kilometre
operating range, a maximum speed of 100 kilometres per hour and a ceiling of 3,000
metres above sea level. The listed payload capacity is 2.5 kilograms. Power comes
from a 6S 9,500 milliamp-hour lithium polymer battery, the aircraft carries GPS 
for navigation and horizontal stabilisation for targeting stability, uses an Extended
Range Long Range System (ERLS) receiver for control, and transmits high-definition
video. Proforce also lists EW, or electronic warfare, protection as part of the 
specification, though the company has not published technical detail on what that
protection entails.

The PF Meteor 2 is the expanded version of the same concept. Proforce Airsystems
describes it as a “next-generation loitering munition UAV engineered for precision
engagement, advanced navigation, and uncompromising mission reliability,” and the
specification numbers reflect that step up: 35 minutes of flight time, the same 
100-kilometre-per-hour top speed, a longer 40-kilometre operating range and a higher
4.5-kilogram payload capacity. Proforce’s marketing for the Meteor 2 also characterises
it as an enhanced 10-inch FPV platform, consistent with the company’s website describing
the Meteor 1 as a 7-inch and the Meteor 2 as a 10-inch design, where both figures
refer to the diagonal propeller-to-propeller frame dimension common in FPV drone
manufacturing. Larger frames carry more and fly longer; the trade-off, as always
with battery-electric propulsion, is that payload and endurance pull against each
other, and neither aircraft’s specification clarifies what payload weight the published
endurance figures assume.

Both platforms join a wider product line that already includes the PF Hornet fixed-
wing ISR aircraft, the PF Eagle 3, the PF Maximus, the PF Archer, the PF Arkanos,
and the PF AG 16. [Proforce Airsystems’ own website](https://proforceairsystems.com/)
describes the Hornet as a “tactical reconnaissance platform” with a 34-kilogram 
maximum takeoff weight and a 3.9-metre wingspan, positioning it clearly in a different
category from the Meteors; one runs persistent ISR missions over wide areas, the
others hit specific targets at closer range.

### From Training Room to Army Exhibition

The Meteor 2 has moved from product page to verified government contact faster than
most Nigerian-made defence platforms manage. In February 2025, Proforce Airsystems
conducted a five-day intensive training programme at its own facilities for seven
Chief Superintendents of Police from the Nigerian Police Force’s Airwing Division,
equipping them specifically to fly the PF Meteor 2 for surveillance, reconnaissance
and tactical security missions. That the company trained serving senior police officers
on an operational aircraft, rather than showcasing a prototype to prospective buyers,
represents a meaningful step from concept to active government use, even if it falls
short of a confirmed military procurement.

In August 2026, Proforce Airsystems appeared as a special guest exhibitor at the
27th Nigerian Army Combat Service Support Training Week, held at the Nigerian Army
Ordnance Corps, Abalti Barracks, in Ojuelegba, Lagos. The event, opened by Lieutenant
General Waidi Shaibu, the Chief of Army Staff, through his representative Major 
General Adebayo Adeyinka, was themed around developing an adaptable Combat Service
Support Corps for joint and multi-agency operations. [Proforce’s own social media coverage](https://x.com/Proforcedefence/status/2089991656023916951)
described the exhibition as “more important than a trade show,” a framing consistent
with a company positioning itself for sustained institutional engagement rather 
than a single contract.

Earlier in 2026, at the Nigerian Army Day Celebration (NADCEL) held in Port Harcourt,
Rivers State, Proforce Airsystems displayed the PF Meteor 2 and PF Hornet platforms
alongside a Drone-Mounted Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system, which combines 
aerial mobility with subsurface sensing for counter-IED applications. [Unmanned Africa has separately covered](https://www.unmanned.africa/proforce-galaxies-displays-indigenous-c4isr-and-satellite-systems-at-nadcel/)
the related Proforce Galaxies subsidiary’s display at the same event, where the 
company showed the PF Spectra mobile command platform and ATLAS satellite imagery
analytics. The picture that emerges from both displays is a conglomerate deliberately
building across every layer of a battlefield network, from strike drones through
C4ISR to satellite intelligence, rather than pursuing single-product defence contracts.

### Where Proforce Airsystems Fits Nigeria’s Drone Landscape

Proforce Limited was incorporated in 2008 and grew primarily as Nigeria’s largest
private armoured vehicle manufacturer, exporting its PF ARA MRAP to Chad and attracting
attention when Wagner Group forces were photographed operating the vehicle in the
Sahel. The company’s pivot into aerospace, formalised with a 2022 Memorandum of 
Understanding with French UAV manufacturer [AERACCESS](https://www.military.africa/2022/04/aeraccess-proforce-collaborate-on-drone-training-and-production/)
to co-produce surveillance drones and establish a Drone Academy in Nigeria, preceded
the Meteor family, though the Meteor platforms appear to be designs Proforce Airsystems
developed independently rather than through that original French partnership. The
company’s website does not link any specific product to the AERACCESS arrangement.

The Meteor family sits in a different market segment from the platforms this site
has covered extensively in Nigeria’s other indigenous efforts. Terra Industries,
which has [raised roughly $52 million in venture capital](https://www.unmanned.africa/the-money-behind-africas-military-drone-boom/)
and is building its second factory in Accra, Ghana, is pursuing a broad autonomous
systems mandate spanning aerial drones, the armed Duma unmanned ground vehicle and
a counter-drone interceptor. The Nigerian Air Force’s own R&D Centre builds the 
Tsaigumi ISR platform for institutional military procurement. Proforce Airsystems
occupies a third space: a private defence integrator with an existing base of senior
military and police clients, producing small, cost-effective FPV systems tuned for
the immediate operational problem its buyers actually face in the field rather than
for a future export market or a venture investor’s presentation.

The specific configuration the Meteor platforms imply, a sub-5-kilogram FPV weapon
at 100 kilometres per hour with EW protection, maps precisely onto the threat profile
this site has tracked in detail: [ISWAP’s armed commercial drones over Borno and Yobe](https://www.unmanned.africa/iswaps-weaponized-commercial-drones-in-the-lake-chad-basin/),
and the asymmetric cost advantage insurgents have held over conventional military
forces in the northeast. Whether the Meteor family’s stated EW protection and extended
operating ranges are sufficient to hold an edge against the same commercial platforms
ISWAP uses, many of which have shifted to frequency-hopping firmware and some of
which use fiber-optic tethers to defeat radio jamming entirely, is a technical question
the public record does not answer. What the record does establish is that by August
2026 Proforce Airsystems had trained serving officers, appeared at an Army chief-
presided exhibition, and displayed its platforms alongside a ground-penetrating 
radar at NADCEL, a trajectory that distinguishes it from the many Nigerian defence
startups that have announced and not delivered.

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