The 34,000-square-foot drone manufacturing facility, located in Accra, Ghana, will serve as Terra Industries’ primary regional defense manufacturing base for drone and counter-drone systems.

This announcement follows Terra’s $34 million raise to scale manufacturing capacity, accelerate deployments, and grow its engineering teams across Nigeria and allied African countries.

Pax-2, Terra’s second Pax Factory, follows the 15,000 sq. ft. Pax-1 flagship in Abuja, Nigeria. Once fully operational, Pax-2 will be the largest drone factory on the continent (surpassing Pax-1). The facility is expected to reach an annual capacity of 50,000 units across Terra’s aerial systems portfolio by 2028.

The Ghana facility will create 120 engineering jobs and operate on a continuous production schedule to meet rising demand for these systems across the region. These include the Archer VTOL, a long-range surveillance and strike platform; the Iroko UAV, designed for rapid tactical deployment; and Terra’s newest addition, Kama, a high-speed interceptor drone built for counter-drone defense. Capable of speeds of up to 300 kilometers per hour, Kama is engineered for high-volume production to address the growing need for kinetic interception capabilities.

This move into Ghana advances Terra’s mission to build Africa’s sovereign defense-industrial base. At the same time, it comes amid a shift in modern conflict across the Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa, where non-state actors are increasingly deploying modified commercial and fiber-optic drones as attack systems. These tactics, seen in recent conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, are accelerating demand for integrated defense systems that combine surveillance, electronic warfare, and kinetic response.