EDEX 2025: Pakistan Displays Battle-Proven Safrah Drone Jamming Gun With 1.5 km Disruption Range.

Pakistan’s National Electronics Complex of Pakistan introduced its Safrah anti-UAV gun at EDEX 2025, highlighting a 1.5-kilometer jamming range and commercial drone disruption capabilities. The system’s reported operational use along Pakistan’s western border has spurred export interest from African buyers, positioning Safrah as an emerging player in the fast-growing counter-drone market.

A new handheld counter-drone weapon from Pakistan drew steady interest at EDEX 2025 in Cairo, where defense officials and industry representatives examined the Safrah anti-UAV gun during its public showing on the GIDS stand. Citing official data shared by the National Electronics Complex of Pakistan on 2 December 2025, the system is built to sever control and navigation links on commercial unmanned aircraft using focused high-gain jamming antennas. Pakistani officials say the gun has already been fielded on the country’s western border earlier this year, giving Safrah a measure of real-world credibility that many emerging counter-UAV products still lack.
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Safrah is a man-portable directional jammer that cuts drone control, video, and GPS links out to 1.5 km, forcing hostile UAVs to land or return home for frontline or perimeter defense (Picture source: Army Recognition Group).

Safrah is built around three integrated high-gain antennas that project focused jamming energy out to 1,500 meters, a range comparable to the engagement envelope of many quadcopter and light fixed-wing drones. NECOP lists three primary bands: 1560 to 1620 MHz targeting satellite navigation, 2.4 GHz, and 5.8 GHz for standard command and video links. Each band is powered by a 30-watt transmitter, giving the operator enough energy to overpower commercial drone radios without resorting to bulky backpack amplifiers. The gun weighs about 9 kilograms without its tripod, measures 110 by 27 by 14 centimeters, and is powered by two swappable batteries that deliver roughly 40 minutes of continuous jamming or 70 to 80 short engagements.

Effectively, Safrah is designed to cut all communications between the drone and its controller, immediately halting live video feed and forcing the aircraft either to land or to execute its built-in return to home function. NECOP stresses that the system can tackle drones using frequency hopping, which is increasingly common in racing and first-person view platforms adapted for attack roles. Radiation levels are kept within non-hazardous limits, a key requirement for law enforcement and military personnel who may need to operate the gun for extended periods in confined urban areas.

Pakistani officials report that Safrah Drone Jamming Guns have already been deployed along the country’s western border, where they disrupted a series of kamikaze drone attacks earlier in 2025, preventing casualties and infrastructure damage. The same reporting notes that the system’s performance has triggered export interest, with initial orders coming from African customers, positioning Safrah as one of Pakistan’s first combat-proven counter-UAV products to reach the global market.

On the EDEX floor, NECOP engineers framed Safrah as a tactical tool for platoon and company-level protection. In practical terms, a country acquiring the gun would typically pair it with radar or electro-optical detection, cueing the operator to shoulder the weapon, track the drone through the 9x day optic, and squeeze the trigger when the aircraft enters the 1.5-kilometer engagement zone. The tripod seen in Cairo enables semi-permanent coverage of a vulnerable sector, for example, a base entrance, ammunition dump, or temporary command post, while retaining the option to rapidly detach and deploy the gun with a dismounted patrol.

The official material highlights border, perimeter, and airport security, VIP convoy protection, and event security as primary application areas, all of which mirror the scenarios that now drive global counter-drone demand. For many countries with stretched air defense budgets, Safrah offers a relatively low-cost, man-portable effector that can be fielded with military police, gendarmerie, or critical infrastructure guards after minimal training. Its reliance on replaceable batteries rather than dedicated generators simplifies sustainment for customers in Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, where logistics chains are often fragile.

In comparative terms, Safrah sits in the same class as DroneShield’s DroneGun Tactical, which weighs about 7.3 kilograms and offers long-range disruption across multiple ISM and GNSS bands with IP54 environmental protection. Chinese integrated detection and jamming guns from manufacturers such as TATUSK advertise similar 500 to 1,500 meter jamming ranges with 30-watt amplifiers, but add onboard drone detection sensors and mapping tools at the cost of higher system complexity. Safrah lacks organic detection yet compensates with a straightforward, rugged design, clear band selection, and hard-earned operational pedigree on an active border.

For nations now racing to build layered counter-UAV architectures, the Safrah anti-UAV gun showcased at EDEX 2025 offers a practical directional effector that can be slotted beneath higher-end radars and kinetic interceptors. Its blend of focused jamming power, combat use in Pakistan, and visible push for exports indicates that NECOP and GIDS intend to position Safrah as a workhorse tool for militaries and security agencies confronting the drone threat with limited budgets but urgent operational needs.