The Sudanese army says it shot down a long-range FH-95 drone operated by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in North Kordofan state’s Gereikh area on Monday, the second advanced RSF drone its air defenses have downed in the region this month. The RSF has recently intensified drone use across Bara and Jabrat al-Sheikh and along the key export highway leading to El Obeid, the state capital.
A War That’s Quietly Gone High-Tech
Sudan’s civil war is still fought largely with infantry and light vehicles, but the RSF’s growing drone arsenal marks a real shift. These aren’t homemade devices. Long-range, GPS-guided systems like the FH-95 require outside sourcing, and their appearance on Sudanese battlefields points to foreign suppliers and regional powers with a stake in the country’s mineral and agricultural wealth using the conflict as a testing ground for exactly this kind of hardware.
Two interceptions in one month is a small sample, but it says something on both sides of the equation: the RSF now has enough of these systems to use them repeatedly, and Sudan’s military has had to stand up real air-defense capability just to keep up. Neither of those was true a few years ago.
🔥 Sudanese Armed Forces Shoot Down RSF Drone:
What do you think? Does the spread of drone warfare into African civil conflicts make them more likely to drag on, or does better interception capability actually level the field? Let us know your thoughts in the comments on BeezLoop.com!
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