The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) “targeted Osman Digna Air Base, a goods warehouse and some civilian facilities in the city of Port Sudan with suicide drones”, army spokesman Nabil Abdullah said in a statement.
Smoke was seen billowing from the airport in Port Sudan, about 650 kilometres (400 miles) from the nearest RSF positions on the outskirts of Khartoum.
An AFP correspondent in Port Sudan reported explosions in the morning shaking his home, about 20 kilometres north of the key coastal city's airport.
On social media, users shared videos of a large explosion followed by a cloud of smoke rising from the blast site, which AFP was not able to immediately verify.
Since April 2023, the regular army, headed by Sudan's de facto leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has been battling the RSF, led by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, in a devastating war that has killed tens of thousands of people and uprooted 13 million.
In the early days of the war, the government relocated from Khartoum to Port Sudan, which until Sunday's attack had been spared the violence.
The conflict has left Africa's third largest country effectively divided.
Sunday's attack is the latest in a series of drone attacks the RSF has launched on military and civilian infrastructure deep in army-held territory.
In late April, a drone strike on the city of Atbara, halfway between Port Sudan and Khartoum, caused widespread electricity blackouts across the country's northeast and centre.
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