EDEX 2025: Egypt Unveils Jabbar-150 Drone as a Homegrown Alternative to the Iranian Shahed
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Egypt has introduced the Jabbar-150, a domestically built one-way attack drone, at EDEX 2025 in Cairo. The system signals a push toward an independent, scalable long-range strike capability that reduces reliance on imported cruise missiles.
On December 1, 2025, during EDEX 2025 in Cairo, Egypt has unveiled a new one-way attack drone, Jabbar-150, developed by the private firm Tornex. The system appears as part of a broader family of Jabbar loitering munitions and smaller strike drones now being promoted to Egyptian and foreign delegations. Its public debut signals Cairo’s intention to build an indigenous deep strike toolkit instead of relying solely on imported cruise missiles and legacy ballistic systems. In practical terms, the new drone pushes Egypt into the growing club of states that treat expendable long-range munitions as central to their future strike doctrine.Follow Army Recognition on Google News at this link
The Jabbar-150 is a long-range, one-way attack drone with a roughly one thousand kilometer reach, a medium explosive warhead, and simple GPS-based guidance. Designed for mass launch from truck-mounted ramps, it gives Egypt a low-cost deep strike option for hitting fixed infrastructure and airfield targets (Picture source: Army Recognition Group).
Jabbar-150 is presented as a single-use, long-range loitering munition built around a slender fuselage, cropped delta wings, and a rear-mounted piston engine driving a pusher propeller. The overall layout closely recalls Iran’s Shahed 136, a resemblance that is difficult to miss when viewing the drone on the exhibition stand. Visual analysis suggests a vehicle in roughly the same class, with a fuselage of about 3 to 3.5 meters, a wingspan near 2.5 meters, and an all-up mass of around 200 kilograms. The nose is clearly sized for a medium-high explosive or fragmentation warhead, while the central section is reserved for fuel, supporting a claimed range on the order of 1,000 kilometers against fixed infrastructure, air bases, or shipping.
Guidance is a combination of inertial navigation and satellite signals using GPS or broader GNSS, following preprogrammed routes to designated aim points. This deliberately simple architecture avoids expensive electro-optical seekers and advanced data links, but it keeps unit cost low and eases mass production. Jabbar 150 is intended to fly one way, strike a predetermined target area, and be cheap enough to launch in large salvos without stressing procurement budgets. Although Tornex has not yet shown a complete launcher, the airframe and mission profile point strongly to rail or ramp launch, likely with a small solid rocket booster for initial acceleration and a truck-mounted, container-style launcher for tactical mobility.
Tornex officials and Egyptian commentary emphasize that Jabbar-150 is built around commercially available components wherever possible. That likely includes a metal and composite structure, a small automotive or motorcycle-derived engine, and off-the-shelf avionics modules adapted for military use. The philosophy mirrors trends seen in Ukraine and across the Middle East, where relatively crude but plentiful one-way attack drones have proven their value by exhausting air defense systems and forcing adversaries to trade expensive interceptors against cheap airframes. If Egypt can replicate that cost balance, Jabbar-150 will offer commanders a flexible tool for shaping the early hours of any high-intensity campaign.
The new drone is designed to sit between Egypt’s ballistic missile inventory and its growing roster of MALE UAVs, including platforms such as EJune 30 SW, Ahmous, and 6th October. Batteries of truck-mounted launchers could fire staggered waves of Jabbar-150s at low altitude, exploiting radar gaps before converging on critical nodes like radars, fuel depots, or command centers. Even modest accuracy would be offset by the volume of fire and the ability to coordinate with reusable UAVs that provide reconnaissance and battle damage assessment. In such a scheme, high-end cruise missiles and manned aircraft follow behind, striking hardened or time-sensitive targets once defenses are saturated.
Jabbar-150 reflects a deliberate effort to pull private industry into Egypt’s unmanned ecosystem alongside state-linked entities such as the Arab Organization for Industrialization. By showcasing a named family of loitering munitions, Tornex is signaling export aspirations as well as domestic ambition, offering partners a locally branded alternative to Iranian, Chinese, or Western systems.
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Egypt has introduced the Jabbar-150, a domestically built one-way attack drone, at EDEX 2025 in Cairo. The system signals a push toward an independent, scalable long-range strike capability that reduces reliance on imported cruise missiles.
On December 1, 2025, during EDEX 2025 in Cairo, Egypt has unveiled a new one-way attack drone, Jabbar-150, developed by the private firm Tornex. The system appears as part of a broader family of Jabbar loitering munitions and smaller strike drones now being promoted to Egyptian and foreign delegations. Its public debut signals Cairo’s intention to build an indigenous deep strike toolkit instead of relying solely on imported cruise missiles and legacy ballistic systems. In practical terms, the new drone pushes Egypt into the growing club of states that treat expendable long-range munitions as central to their future strike doctrine.
Follow Army Recognition on Google News at this link
The Jabbar-150 is a long-range, one-way attack drone with a roughly one thousand kilometer reach, a medium explosive warhead, and simple GPS-based guidance. Designed for mass launch from truck-mounted ramps, it gives Egypt a low-cost deep strike option for hitting fixed infrastructure and airfield targets (Picture source: Army Recognition Group).
Jabbar-150 is presented as a single-use, long-range loitering munition built around a slender fuselage, cropped delta wings, and a rear-mounted piston engine driving a pusher propeller. The overall layout closely recalls Iran’s Shahed 136, a resemblance that is difficult to miss when viewing the drone on the exhibition stand. Visual analysis suggests a vehicle in roughly the same class, with a fuselage of about 3 to 3.5 meters, a wingspan near 2.5 meters, and an all-up mass of around 200 kilograms. The nose is clearly sized for a medium-high explosive or fragmentation warhead, while the central section is reserved for fuel, supporting a claimed range on the order of 1,000 kilometers against fixed infrastructure, air bases, or shipping.
Guidance is a combination of inertial navigation and satellite signals using GPS or broader GNSS, following preprogrammed routes to designated aim points. This deliberately simple architecture avoids expensive electro-optical seekers and advanced data links, but it keeps unit cost low and eases mass production. Jabbar 150 is intended to fly one way, strike a predetermined target area, and be cheap enough to launch in large salvos without stressing procurement budgets. Although Tornex has not yet shown a complete launcher, the airframe and mission profile point strongly to rail or ramp launch, likely with a small solid rocket booster for initial acceleration and a truck-mounted, container-style launcher for tactical mobility.
Tornex officials and Egyptian commentary emphasize that Jabbar-150 is built around commercially available components wherever possible. That likely includes a metal and composite structure, a small automotive or motorcycle-derived engine, and off-the-shelf avionics modules adapted for military use. The philosophy mirrors trends seen in Ukraine and across the Middle East, where relatively crude but plentiful one-way attack drones have proven their value by exhausting air defense systems and forcing adversaries to trade expensive interceptors against cheap airframes. If Egypt can replicate that cost balance, Jabbar-150 will offer commanders a flexible tool for shaping the early hours of any high-intensity campaign.
The new drone is designed to sit between Egypt’s ballistic missile inventory and its growing roster of MALE UAVs, including platforms such as EJune 30 SW, Ahmous, and 6th October. Batteries of truck-mounted launchers could fire staggered waves of Jabbar-150s at low altitude, exploiting radar gaps before converging on critical nodes like radars, fuel depots, or command centers. Even modest accuracy would be offset by the volume of fire and the ability to coordinate with reusable UAVs that provide reconnaissance and battle damage assessment. In such a scheme, high-end cruise missiles and manned aircraft follow behind, striking hardened or time-sensitive targets once defenses are saturated.
Jabbar-150 reflects a deliberate effort to pull private industry into Egypt’s unmanned ecosystem alongside state-linked entities such as the Arab Organization for Industrialization. By showcasing a named family of loitering munitions, Tornex is signaling export aspirations as well as domestic ambition, offering partners a locally branded alternative to Iranian, Chinese, or Western systems.
