How a Middle Eastern superpower is fuelling the Sudan war
31 October 2025
Featured on Telegraph Battle Lines Podcast
Sudan
We've seen over the course of the conflict proliferation of increasingly sophisticated hardware and military assets including, as you mentioned, heavy weaponry, armoured vehicles, UAVs, various forms of long-range drones and light munitions and so on, which has made a significant tactical and operational difference. It's obviously changed the nature of both urban and rural warfare. Particularly with the battle around Khartoum, you saw both SAF and the RSF deploying various drones, be them foreign manufactured and foreign supplied drones, and all sort of domestic derivatives and makeshift or improvised drones being used."

