Ondas Holdings' 4M Defense and Safe Pro Group Complete Middle East Pilot Program Demonstrating Advanced Demining Capability with AI-Powered Hazard Identification

Rhea-AI Summary

Ondas Holdings (Nasdaq:ONDS) and Safe Pro Group (Nasdaq:SPAI) completed an eight-week pilot in the Middle East combining 4M Defense aerial surveys with Safe Pro's AI image-analysis (SPOTD) to detect explosive hazards for humanitarian demining and reconstruction.

Across ~22 acres surveyed, the AI identified nearly 150 hazardous items, including ~60 confirmed landmines and UXO. SPOTD processed high-resolution imagery into 2D/3D maps and expands its dataset (built from ~2.2M drone images) supporting >41,400 confirmed detections and mapping >11,423 hectares.

Positive

• Pilot identified nearly 150 hazardous items across ~22 acres
• Approximately 60 confirmed landmines and UXO detected
• SPOTD leverages ~2.2 million drone images to strengthen AI detection
• 41,400+ confirmed threat detections and mapping of >11,423 hectares

Negative

• Pilot scope limited to ~22 acres, a small sample versus regional land-reclamation needs
• Eight-week pilot does not include binding contracts or commercial deployment terms

Key Figures

Pilot duration 8 weeks Middle East AI demining pilot in Israel

Surveyed land 22 acres Area covered in pilot imagery analysis

Hazardous items 150 items and indicators Threats identified by AI system in pilot

Confirmed landmines/UXO 60 confirmed items Landmines and UXO detected in pilot

Drone images 2.2 million images Dataset used to strengthen SPOTD AI system

Threat detections 41,400 confirmed threats Cumulative SPOTD detections to date

Mapped area 11,423 hectares (28,200 acres) Total area SPOTD has supported mapping

Market Reality Check

$4.15 Last Close

Volume Volume 58,491,642 vs 20‑day average 95,717,245 (relative volume 0.61) before this news. low

Technical Price 7.37 was trading above 200‑day MA at 3.92 ahead of the announcement.

Peers on Argus

Before this news, ONDS was down 8.9% while key communication‑equipment peers like EXTR, VIAV, COMM, BDC and VSAT were each down between about 1–7%, with no peers flagged in momentum scanners and no same‑day peer headlines, pointing to a more stock‑specific move.

Historical Context

Date	Event	Sentiment	Move	Catalyst
Dec 08	Strategic investment	Positive	-0.6%	Intent to invest up to $11M in Ukrainian unmanned systems developer.
Dec 03	Government contract win	Positive	+10.5%	Prime contractor role on multi‑phase autonomous border‑protection system.
Dec 02	Board/strategy update	Positive	+6.5%	Rail industry leader joins board to accelerate IEEE 802.16t adoption.
Dec 01	Follow‑on defense order	Positive	-4.0%	Additional ~$8.2M Iron Drone Raider order for European airport defense.
Nov 25	Acquisition announcement	Positive	-3.2%	Definitive deal to acquire Roboteam and expand tactical ground robotics.

Pattern Detected

Recent positive operational and strategic announcements have produced mixed reactions, with several notable wins followed by negative or muted 24‑hour price moves.

Recent Company History

Over the last month, Ondas has reported multiple defense‑focused milestones. These include an agreement to acquire Roboteam with expected $3–4 million Q4 2025 revenue and at least $30 million in 2026, repeat $8.2 million counter‑UAS orders for European airports, a government border‑protection tender, and a planned investment of up to $11 million in Drone Fight Group. Today’s AI demining collaboration fits the same theme of expanding autonomous, multi‑domain defense and mission‑intelligence capabilities.

Regulatory & Risk Context

Active S-3 Shelf Registration 2025-09-09

Ondas has an effective Form S-3ASR shelf registration filed on 2025-09-09, allowing it to issue various securities, with multiple 424B prospectus supplements already filed. This provides flexibility to raise capital through registered offerings as needed.

Market Pulse Summary

The stock moved +5.3% in the session following this news. A strong positive reaction aligns with Ondas’ ongoing focus on AI‑enabled defense and reconstruction capabilities. Investors previously saw mixed price responses to wins such as border‑protection tenders and counter‑UAS orders, so follow‑through often depended on contract scale and execution. An effective, AI‑driven demining pilot could support future program wins, while existing capital‑raising flexibility under the effective shelf registration and prior insider selling patterns remain factors for assessing sustainability.

Key Terms

unexploded ordnance (UXO) medical

"identify landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), improvised explosive devices"

Unexploded ordnance (UXO) are bombs, shells, mines or other explosive devices that did not detonate when they were used or discarded and remain dangerous in the ground or water. For investors, UXO matters because they can halt construction, add large cleanup and liability costs, complicate land development or real estate transactions, and trigger regulatory action — like discovering a hidden time bomb that requires specialized removal before work can continue.

improvised explosive devices (IEDs) medical

"unexploded ordnance (UXO), improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and other"

A homemade bomb or explosive device built and hidden from readily available materials and detonated by remote, timer, pressure or other triggers, often used in asymmetric warfare or terrorist attacks. For investors, IEDs matter because they can disrupt operations, damage infrastructure, raise security and insurance costs, threaten supply chains and customer safety, and prompt regulatory or political responses that affect company value—think of them as unpredictable, localized shocks like a sudden roadblock or factory outage.

cluster munitions medical

"characterize the types of bombs, cluster munitions, and UXO encountered"

Cluster munitions are weapons that release many smaller explosive bomblets over a wide area, similar to a shotgun blast spread over a field rather than a single bullet. They matter to investors because their use or stockpiling can trigger bans, sanctions, cleanup costs, and reputational damage for companies and countries tied to their manufacture or supply chains, creating legal, financial and geopolitical risks that can affect stock prices and trade.

3D maps technical

"converts raw imagery into high-resolution, shareable 2D and 3D maps"

3D maps are digital, three-dimensional models of physical spaces or objects that show depth and structure, like a virtual model of a city block, factory floor, or a human organ. Investors care because these maps power technologies—autonomous vehicles, augmented reality, urban planning, medical imaging and resource management—so they can reduce costs, improve safety, speed product development, and create competitive services that drive revenue and regulatory compliance.

AI-generated analysis. Not financial advice.

Advanced AI-powered demining technology for wide-scale use in land reclamation and reconstruction globally proves effective in pilot that identified landmines, UXO and other hazardous items

Ondas demonstrates global leadership as a provider of next-generation defense and security technologies by combining OAS' 4M smart demining robotic systems with strategic partner Safe Pro's AI-powered threat detection imagery technology

BOSTON, MA AND MIAMI, FL / ACCESS Newswire / December 18, 2025 / Ondas Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:ONDS) ("Ondas" or the "Company"), a leading provider of autonomous aerial and ground robot intelligence through its Ondas Autonomous Systems (OAS) business unit and private wireless solutions through Ondas Networks, and Safe Pro Group Inc. (Nasdaq:SPAI) ("Safe Pro"), a leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-powered defense and security technologies, today announced the successful completion of a joint pilot program in the Middle East that evaluated the use of AI to identify explosive hazards in support of humanitarian demining and reconstruction efforts.

A sample real-world detection of an anti-tank mine identified in drone-based imagery processed by Safe Pro Group's AI platform from a recently completed pilot program conducted in the Middle East (Source: 4M Defense)

The eight-week pilot in Israel demonstrated the strong performance of Safe Pro's advanced AI algorithms in analyzing high-resolution aerial imagery to identify landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO), improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and other hazardous indicators across complex terrain. Safe Pro's image-analysis engine, the Safe Pro Object Threat Detection (SPOTD) system, rapidly processed survey data from multiple areas of interest and consistently identified credible threats with accuracy and speed far beyond traditional manual review. Across more than 22 acres of surveyed land-roughly the size of 17 NFL football fields-the AI system identified nearly 150 hazardous items and indicators, including approximately 60 confirmed landmines and UXO.

4M Defense designed and executed the aerial survey missions and evaluated how SPOTD's outputs could be incorporated into its land-intelligence platform as part of an integrated solution. Fusing AI-generated detections with additional sensor and terrain layers provided complete combat zone mapping which enables customers to convert raw imagery into a more complete operational picture-revealing hazard patterns, understanding terrain complexity, and assessing scalability across broader regions. We believe this combined approach marks a meaningful step forward for humanitarian organizations and government agencies seeking safer, faster, and more data-driven methods to support large-scale demining and reconstruction planning across the Middle East and globally.

"Ondas is proud to partner with Safe Pro to demonstrate the strength of their advanced AI tools in addressing one of the most urgent humanitarian and operational challenges in the Middle East," said Eric Brock, Chairman and CEO of Ondas. "Safe Pro's technology delivered impressive performance in identifying explosive hazards, and we see significant opportunity to integrate these capabilities within 4M Defense's mission-planning and land-intelligence platform. Together, we can offer customers a more comprehensive and data-driven approach to support large-scale demining and reconstruction efforts across a sizable and expanding end market. This collaboration between one of our OAS companies and Safe Pro, in which we have made a strategic investment, delivers unparalleled solutions and exemplifies Ondas' technology leadership and scale across the autonomous systems ecosystem."

"The presence of landmines and explosive remnants of war across the Middle East poses a serious and ongoing humanitarian challenge. This pilot reinforced the strength of our SPOTD AI technology in rapidly identifying hazardous items across difficult terrain and demonstrated how these insights can support more effective planning for demining and reconstruction efforts," said Dan Erdberg, Chairman and CEO of Safe Pro Group. "By partnering with Ondas and 4M Defense, we see a clear path to delivering an integrated solution that combines our AI-driven threat detection with 4M's land-intelligence and mission-planning capabilities. Together, we are positioned to meet the needs of a large and growing market that requires faster, safer, and more scalable methods for assessing and reclaiming critical land."

Through the terrain data and imagery analyzed in this pilot, Safe Pro is expanding its SPOTD dataset to better characterize the types of bombs, cluster munitions, and UXO encountered across the Middle East. This enhanced dataset strengthens SPOTD's early-stage hazard-detection capabilities and provides higher-quality intelligence inputs that 4M Defense can integrate into its mission-planning, fused-intelligence, and future remediation workflows. As a remediation provider with deep operational experience, 4M Defense is assessing how SPOTD outputs can be incorporated into a more comprehensive, end-to-end solution spanning detection, intelligence, and remediation for large-scale land reclamation and reconstruction.

Safe Pro's battle-tested AI is built on years of real-world data and is designed to detect small, hard-to-find explosive threats in aerial imagery and video. The SPOTD system converts raw imagery into high-resolution, shareable 2D and 3D maps and has been strengthened by more than 2.2 million drone images collected from battlefield and disaster-zone environments. To date, SPOTD has delivered over 41,400 confirmed threat detections and supported the mapping of more than 11,423 hectares (28,200 acres), demonstrating its scalability and operational relevance for government and humanitarian missions. To view a video on Safe Pro's AI capability in the field, click here.

4M Defense is engaging government stakeholders as demand grows for advanced land-intelligence solutions that can support large-scale demining and reconstruction efforts. The company sees significant opportunities to expand its programs by incorporating AI-generated datasets from Safe Pro into its combined detection, intelligence, and remediation offerings resulting in robust situational awareness via enhanced combat zone maps. By integrating SPOTD-derived hazard data into its mission-planning and fused-intelligence workflows, 4M Defense aims to deliver a more comprehensive, scalable solution for customers seeking safer, faster, and data-driven approaches to reclaiming and rebuilding contaminated land.

About Ondas Holdings Inc.

Ondas Holdings Inc. (Nasdaq:ONDS) is a leading provider of autonomous systems and private wireless solutions through its business units Ondas Autonomous Systems (OAS), Ondas Capital and Ondas Networks. Ondas' technologies offer a powerful combination of aerial intelligence and next-generation connectivity to enhance security, operational efficiency, and data-driven decision-making across essential industries.    

OAS delivers a portfolio of AI-powered defense and security platforms that are deployed globally to safeguard sensitive locations, populations, and infrastructure. Through American Robotics, Airobotics, Apeiro Motion, and Sentry CS Ltd., OAS offers the Optimus System-the first U.S. FAA-certified small UAS for automated aerial security and data capture-the Iron Drone Raider-an autonomous counter-UAS platform-Apeiro's advanced ground robotics and tethered UAV systems, supported by innovative navigation and communications technologies-and Sentrycs' Cyber-over-RF (CoRF) and Protocol-Manipulation counter-UAS technology.

Ondas Capital plans to combine advisory services and strategic investment management services to accelerate the rapid scaling and global deployment of unmanned and autonomous systems to Allied defense and security markets.  

Ondas Networks provides software-defined wireless broadband technology through its FullMAX platform, based on the IEEE 802.16t standard. This standards-based system delivers high-performance connectivity for mission-critical IoT applications in markets such as rail, utilities, oil and gas, transportation, and government.

For additional information on Ondas Holdings: www.ondas.com, X and LinkedIn
For Ondas Autonomous Systems: LinkedIn
For Airobotics: www.airoboticsdrones.com, X and LinkedIn
For American Robotics: www.american-robotics.com, X and LinkedIn
For Stenrycs: www.sentrycs.com, X and LinkedIn
For Apeiro Motion: www.apeiro-motion.com, LinkedIn
For Ondas Networks: www.ondasnetworks.com, X and LinkedIn

About Safe Pro Group Inc.

Safe Pro Group Inc. (NASDAQ:SPAI) is a mission-driven technology company delivering AI-enabled security and defense solutions. Through cutting-edge platforms like SPOTD, Safe Pro provides advanced situational awareness tools for defense, humanitarian, and homeland security applications globally. It is a leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions specializing in drone imagery processing leveraging commercially available "off-the-shelf" drones with its proprietary machine learning and computer vision technology to enable rapid identification of explosives threats, providing a much safer and more efficient alternative to traditional human-based analysis methods. Built on a cloud-based ecosystem and powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), Safe Pro Group's scalable platform is targeting multiple markets that include commercial, government, law enforcement and humanitarian sectors where its Safe Pro AI software, Safe-Pro USA protective gear and Airborne Response drone-based services can work in synergy to deliver safety and operational efficiency. For more information on Safe Pro Group Inc., please visit https://safeprogroup.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements     

Statements made in this release that are not statements of historical or current facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We caution readers that forward-looking statements are predictions based on our current expectations about future events. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Our actual results, performance, or achievements could differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements as a result of a number of factors, including the risks discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" discussed under the caption "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in Part I of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K or any updates discussed under the caption "Item 1A. Risk Factors" in Part II of our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and in our other filings with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise that occur after that date, except as required by law.

Contacts    

IR Contact for Ondas Holdings Inc.  

888-657-2377  
ir@ondas.com

Media Contact for Ondas  

Escalate PR  
ondas@escalatepr.com

Preston Grimes  
Marketing Manager, Ondas Holdings Inc.  
preston.grimes@ondas.com

SOURCE: Ondas Holdings Inc.

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FAQ

What did Ondas (ONDS) and Safe Pro (SPAI) test in the December 2025 Middle East pilot?

They tested 4M Defense aerial surveys integrated with Safe Pro's SPOTD AI to identify landmines, UXO, IEDs, and hazardous indicators across ~22 acres.

How many hazardous items did the ONDS-SPAI pilot identify on ~22 acres?

The pilot identified nearly 150 hazardous items, including about 60 confirmed landmines and UXO.

What data supports Safe Pro's SPOTD detection capability mentioned in the announcement?

SPOTD is trained on ~2.2 million drone images, has delivered >41,400 confirmed detections, and mapped >11,423 hectares.

Will the Ondas and Safe Pro pilot immediately change demining operations for governments?

The pilot demonstrated capability and integration potential, but the announcement does not state any immediate government contracts or deployments.

How did 4M Defense use SPOTD outputs during the pilot?

4M designed aerial survey missions and fused SPOTD detections with sensor and terrain layers to build combat-zone maps for mission planning.