LZ TECH Showcases Counter-UAS Portfolio at AFRIDEX 2026 in Lagos

With operations spanning more than 60 countries and a partner network of over 6,000 distributors and integrators, LZ TECH brought its full counter-UAS portfolio to the inaugural Africa International Defence Exhibition in Lagos, Nigeria, exhibiting at Stand 1025 alongside Nigerian technology group UNICCON Group.

AFRIDEX 2026: the stage

The Africa International Defence Exhibition (AFRIDEX) 2026 ran from October 26 to 29 at Eko Atlantic in Lagos, Nigeria. Organized by dmg events in partnership with the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria, the first edition of AFRIDEX gathered more than 500 exhibiting companies and delegations from over 100 countries, positioning the event as a pan-African platform for defence and security cooperation. Across four days, the program combined a full exhibition floor with live demonstrations and a strategic conference, bringing government delegations and industry together under one roof.

For a counter-UAS company, the region matters as much as the show floor. African cities are adding airports, ports, energy sites, and event venues at a pace that outruns traditional perimeter security. Drone traffic over these sites is rising in step, and security teams are looking for detection and response tools that work without disrupting the communications networks that keep the sites running. LZ TECH exhibited with live hardware at the booth: passive RF detection, protocol-level identification, directional jamming, and the integrated CRPCS and CCS command platform, all running in real time. The engineering team ran controlled detection-and-response sequences so visitors could follow the full timeline from signal acquisition to neutralization decision.

The product demonstrations were structured around specific operational scenarios. An airport perimeter where a drone approaches from outside the fence. A stadium or event venue where several consumer drones appear at once. An energy site or port where the drone type and origin need to be established before any response. Each scenario runs on the same hardware stack, configured differently, so visitors can see that one architecture covers multiple mission profiles without buying a separate system for each.

Global footprints: 60+ countries, 6,000+ partners

LZ TECH arrived in Lagos after two years of steady international growth. The company now serves customers in more than 60 countries and regions, backed by a partner network of over 6,000 distributors, system integrators, and resellers. These are active accounts, with product in the field and local support channels in place.

Recent deliveries span the globe. Airports in Southeast Asia. Government facilities in the Middle East. Correctional institutions in South America. Energy infrastructure in Central Asia. A FIFA security project in Mexico City. A delivery to Thailand’s Grand Palace complex showed how passive detection, portable neutralization, and a localized command interface come together without interfering with tourist mobile networks. At a Canadian energy infrastructure site, the Detection and Defense System was integrated into an existing perimeter security stack. In Malaysia, the national space agency MYSA ran evaluation trials that produced feedback now built into the product roadmap.

Behind the deployments is a 10,000-square-meter manufacturing and service center staffed by more than 100 professionals. Every unit passes four gates before export packaging: burn-in testing, RF performance calibration, full-system functional testing, and a final quality inspection of both hardware and software.

Africa: a channel structured for security procurement

Africa is not a new map for LZ TECH, but AFRIDEX sharpened the opportunity. As airports, ports, and energy projects expand across the continent, so does the requirement to protect them from unauthorized drone activity. Procurement teams in the region are getting more specific about what they need: which drone types, which frequency bands, which integration protocols.

The timing fits the market. Africa’s urban population keeps climbing, and with it the number of airports, container ports, power plants, and stadiums that need continuous protection. Event security is a growing driver: large gatherings draw unauthorized drone activity, and organizers are moving from reactive measures to dedicated detection and response. The same dynamic applies to energy infrastructure, where a single unprotected site can disrupt power to a city. LZ TECH positions the counter-UAS stack for these sites as a protection layer rather than a separate silo.

LZ TECH exhibited at Stand 1025 with UNICCON Group, a Nigerian technology group. The partnership follows the model LZ TECH uses in other regions: a local partner plus the LZ TECH technology stack. The local partner handles language, certification paperwork, import logistics, and ongoing customer relationships. LZ TECH provides the detection hardware, the protocol analysis engine, the neutralization units, the command software, and the integration engineering. Publicly announced security programs across the region signal sustained procurement demand, and the company is building the channel to meet it.

Products on the booth

Detection and identification

The Detection and Defense System pairs passive RF detection with protocol-level analysis. It detects drone signals without any active emission, identifies the drone model through a protocol decode of the link between the drone and its controller, and maps the operator’s home point onto the command interface. The database covers more than 200 drone models across DJI, Autel, Parrot, Hubsan, FIMI, and custom FPV platforms, with new signatures added continuously through the AI-RPC self-learning pipeline. The VAR300 provides autonomous electro-optical detection and tracking for sites that need continuous coverage without a full-time operator at the screen.

Neutralization

The DFJ series delivers directional jamming that lets an operator act on a single drone while surrounding communications keep running. At an airport, a prison, or a stadium, that discipline matters. For situations where a different response is appropriate, the protocol-level CRPC system reconstructs control-layer data and issues flight commands to the target, redirecting it away from a protected site or forcing a controlled landing, without projectiles and without disrupting the surrounding spectrum. Neutralization capabilities are intended for authorized deployments and use in accordance with applicable local laws and regulations.

Command and control

CRPCS ties detection, classification, and response into a single operator interface. CCS scales that to multi-site monitoring with GIS overlay, sensor health dashboards, an alarm timeline, and role-based access control. Both platforms accept third-party sensor inputs, so a customer with existing radar or cameras can integrate feeds rather than replace them.

OEM modules

The protocol analysis engine ships as a compact OEM module for integration into existing radar, electro-optical, or command platforms from other manufacturers. For integrators and platform vendors building into the region’s security programs, the OEM route adds drone identification without building a signal analysis team from scratch.

An active player in a market that waits for no one

The counter-UAS market keeps accelerating. Procurement timelines are compressing from years to quarters. The companies that are not shipping product, exhibiting at shows, and deploying systems across multiple regions at once are losing ground. LZ TECH has been on the move. Over the past twelve months the company exhibited at defence and security trade fairs in Germany, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Brazil, and Malaysia, among other markets. Each event produced distribution agreements, government contacts, and product feedback that goes straight into the engineering backlog. AFRIDEX extends that pattern into Africa, the region where infrastructure growth and drone adoption are rising together.

The delivery pipeline tells the same story. High-volume orders shipped across multiple regions in the first half of 2026, a manufacturing base that scales from single-unit demonstrations to multi-site deployments while still hitting delivery dates, and a partner network that covers every major counter-drone procurement geography.

The feedback loop shapes what gets built next. European customers ask for interoperability and spectrum discipline. Middle Eastern customers prioritize detection range and all-weather reliability. Southeast Asian customers need portability and fast deployment. African security teams are adding their own requirements to that list, and the engineering team hears them directly from the operators at the booth.

Engage with LZ TECH

LZ TECH thanks the AFRIDEX organizers and the visitors who joined the live demonstrations at Stand 1025. Product specialists, integration engineers, and regional channel managers remain available for technical discussions and procurement inquiries. To schedule a follow-up meeting or request a demonstration, contact the LZ TECH newsroom or reach out through the company’s official channels.

About LZ TECH

LZ TECH is a counter-UAS and low-altitude security technology company with a single guiding mission: Make the Sky Safer. The company provides RF detection, protocol-level identification, jamming, and integrated defense systems for government, infrastructure, airport, and enterprise customers. LZ TECH operates a 10,000-square-meter manufacturing and service center and serves customers in more than 60 countries through a network of over 6,000 partners worldwide.