Terra Industries, a Nigeria-based defense technology business, is expanding its reach throughout Africa by building a new drone manufacturing plant in Ghana, which it claims would become the continent’s largest drone production hub.
The new plant, designated Pax-2 and located in Accra, is the company’s second manufacturing site following the Pax-1 facility in Abuja, Nigeria.
When fully operational by 2028, Pax-2 is planned to produce up to 50,000 drones per year, considerably extending Terra Industries’ manufacturing capacity as demand for African-made defense equipment grows.
The Ghana facility will employ 120 engineers and operate on a continuous production schedule, with a focus on key products such as the Archer VTOL surveillance and strike drone, the Iroko tactical drone, and Kama, a newly developed high-speed interceptor drone designed for counter-drone missions. Kama can purportedly achieve speeds of 300 km/h and is being prepared for large-scale manufacturing.
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Terra Industries, formerly Terrahaptix, was founded in 2024 by Nathan Nwachuku and Maxwell Maduka, and it has swiftly become one of Africa’s fastest-growing defense businesses.
Last year, the company secured a $1.2 million contract to protect hydropower dams, beating an Israeli competitor. It is now expanding deeper into counterterrorism and border security solutions.
The company has noted that its technology has already been used to safeguard mines, power plants, and other nationally important assets in several African nations, securing infrastructure assets worth about $11 billion, with tens of millions in contracts and a strong pipeline between the public and private sectors throughout the continent.
The Geometric Power Plant in Aba, two hydropower facilities in northern Nigeria, and gold and lithium mining activities in Ghana and Nigeria are among the present clients, Defenseweb reports.
“The only way Africa can have lasting peace is by uniting to build sovereign defence, not by relying on foreign security architecture. We need to control our own destiny by building the tools and systems needed to protect ourselves. That’s how this continent defeats terrorism,” said Nwachuku.
He added: “Africa is industrializing faster than any other region, with new mines, refineries, and power plants emerging every month.
But none of that progress will matter if we don’t solve the continent’s greatest Achilles’ heel, which is insecurity and terrorism.”
Explaining the decision to build in Ghana, Nwachuku said, “This is the beginning of that vision playing out more concretely, and we chose Ghana for Pax-2 because of its talent, strategic position, and political will to become a serious defence exporter and prove this can be done at scale.”
