Babasky Technologies, the defence subsidiary of Nigerian technology conglomerate UNICCON Group, says it has demonstrated an upgraded counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capable of detecting hostile drones out to 8 kilometres, locating the ground operators flying them, and jamming any aircraft that crosses into a dynamically defined no-fly zone. The company says the demonstration took place before officials from the Nigerian Army and the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), along with unnamed intelligence stakeholders, though neither service has issued its own public statement confirming attendance or assessing the system’s performance.

What the System Claims to Do

According to Babasky, the platform folds together three functions that are more commonly sold as separate products: wide-area detection, operator geolocation, and directional jamming. The detection layer is described as a multi-sensor system able to pick up small and medium multi-rotor drones at ranges up to 8 kilometres, broadly in line with the detection range Babasky’s earlier stationary counter-drone system demonstrated at Jaji Shooting Range in Kaduna State on 23 December 2025, when the company said it could track more than 40 aerial contacts simultaneously within the same radius and provide roughly six to eight minutes of warning before an incoming drone arrived.

The more consequential claim is pilot geolocation, the ability to trace a hostile drone’s radio signal back to the physical location of the operator controlling it, rather than simply detecting the aircraft itself. This is a harder engineering problem than detection alone, and it is not a capability every counter-drone company on the market can credibly claim. Israeli firm Sentrycs, for instance, markets a comparable capability under what it calls Cyber-over-RF technology, which reads the data layer of a drone’s communication link to expose both the aircraft’s telemetry and its operator’s position rather than relying purely on radio direction-finding. Babasky has not disclosed the specific technical approach behind its own geolocation claim, so it is not possible to say from the public record whether the Nigerian system works on a similar principle or a different one.

The remaining two features described, automated no-fly zone mapping and targeted directional jamming triggered once a drone breaches that perimeter, describe a fairly standard architecture for a modern ground-based counter-UAS system: software-defined protected airspace paired with radio-frequency (RF) jamming aimed specifically at the intruding aircraft’s control and telemetry links rather than blanket jamming across the spectrum. Babasky’s own account frames this as forcing hostile drones down or into an emergency landing once the perimeter is crossed.

Part of a Broader Product Push

This demonstration is not Babasky’s first public showing of counter-drone technology, and it arrives only weeks after the company’s higher-profile debut of the UNIKAM-FO1, which Military Africa covered in August 2026 following its unveiling at the third Africa Land Forces Forum in Port Harcourt from 4 to 6 July. The UNIKAM-FO1 is a fibre-optic guided loitering munition that Babasky says achieves complete resistance to jamming and spoofing by physically tethering the drone to its operator through an ultra-fine fibre-optic and Kevlar micro-cable rather than a radio link, the same principle Ukrainian forces popularised against Russian electronic warfare and that armed groups in Mali’s Azawad Liberation Front have separately adopted in the Sahel. Read together, the two announcements position Babasky on both sides of the drone contest: an offensive platform designed to defeat electronic countermeasures, and a defensive platform designed to detect and disable the kind of commercial drones that groups like the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have increasingly turned into weapons against Nigerian forces in the northeast.

Babasky and its parent, UNICCON Group, have built this product line through a formal partnership with the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) that both sides describe as running more than two years. The December 2025 Jaji demonstration was a joint DICON-UNICCON event, and DICON’s Director-General, Major General Babatunde Alaya, has previously commended the collaboration on the record and reaffirmed the federal government’s interest in strengthening indigenous defence technology. Whether Alaya or another named DICON official attended or endorsed this specific August demonstration was not stated in the material reviewed for this piece, a contrast with several other recent DICON-linked product launches, including the X-Shield AEGIS-X 2.0 armoured vehicle unveiling, where senior officials were named and quoted directly.

UNICCON Group itself is a diversified technology conglomerate rather than a dedicated defence contractor, with subsidiaries spanning artificial intelligence and robotics, most notably Omeife, an AI system the company has promoted as one of Africa’s early advanced humanoid robotics projects, alongside telemedicine, education technology and enterprise software ventures. Babasky is the group’s drone and defence-focused arm, and the company has said its underlying computer vision, autonomous navigation and machine learning expertise, developed initially for its non-military products, has been adapted for the security applications now on display.

“Modern conflicts are won in the electromagnetic spectrum,” noted security analysts following the test. “By debuting both a jam-proof combat drone and an 8km anti-drone jamming shield within weeks of each other, Babasky Technologies is proving that Africa can engineer world-class tactical solutions tailored for its own security challenges.” – Professor Chuks Ekwueme, Founder and Chairman of UNICCON Group of Companies noted.

Nigeria’s interest in indigenous counter-drone capability

Nigeria’s interest in a credible indigenous counter-drone capability is not abstract. ISWAP has used commercial and improvised drones with increasing frequency against military positions in Borno State, including reconnaissance-guided assaults on forward operating bases in Marte, Dikwa and Rann in January 2026. The Nigerian Army’s primary fielded countermeasure to date has been the Lithuanian-made EDM4S SkyWiper, a portable RF jammer effective against commercially sourced drones but limited in range and unable to geolocate an operator. A domestically produced system offering an 8-kilometre detection radius and operator geolocation, if it performs as described, would represent a genuine capability upgrade over that baseline, and would fit a wider pattern of Nigerian defence-industrial activity built around the 2023 DICON Act, which has already produced partnerships spanning the Ezugwu mine-resistant vehicle, the Vanquisher light armoured personnel carrier with Vanquish Industries, the AEGIS-X light tactical vehicle with X-Shield, and autonomous security systems under development with Terra Industries.

The gap between that potential and what has actually been demonstrated in public is worth stating plainly. Every specific figure in this account, the 8-kilometre range, the geolocation capability, the automated no-fly zone function, comes from Babasky’s own description of its own test, observed by unnamed officials whose services have not issued corroborating statements. No independent defence journalist, third-party test authority or foreign observer appears to have published an assessment of the August demonstration at the time of writing. That does not mean the claims are false. Babasky’s December 2025 detection-range figures have been consistently repeated across multiple outlets over eight months without contradiction, which lends some continuity to the company’s public track record. But a repeated claim is still a claim, and readers evaluating what this system means for Nigeria’s counter-drone posture should weigh the demonstration as a promising indigenous development still awaiting independent confirmation, not as an established...

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