- State affiliation · Iran
- Vigil category device · not official insignia
Identity provenance
State affiliation: Iran.
Vigil category device — drawn from this record’s own domain, echelon and role. Not an official insignia.
In brief
The surface-to-surface missile component of the Aerospace Force — the organisation that fired the retaliation of June 2025 and of the war that began in February 2026, and whose commanders were killed in the opening strike of the first and replaced before the second.
- Scope
- Structure, role, lineage and links. No subordinate records published.
- Subordination
- Subordination reported
- Sources
- 3 on the record
- Record state
- Partial
- Broad area of activity
- Iran, with reach across the Gulf, the Levant and beyond
- Notable history
- Iran's missile force was built inside the Revolutionary Guard from the war with Iraq onward, and when the Guard's air arm became the Aerospace Force in 2009 the missile organisation became its core. Compiled accounts describe it as organised into missile brigades and groups under a missile command, and describe the Aerospace Force's commander and the commander of its missile component among those killed in the Israeli strike of 13 June 2025. The force carried out the retaliation of the twelve-day war and the launches of the 2026 war — more than six thousand seven hundred drones and missiles at the Gulf states alone between February and May, a figure that counts launches and not effects.
- Strengths
- The one capability that lets Iran reach every opponent it has, in numbers that force expensive defences to be used. Its continued firing after two decapitation strikes indicates authority delegated well below the top.
- Limitations
- Its production base has been struck repeatedly and United States officials claim much of it destroyed — a claim carried as made. What arrived, as against what left the ground, is not established from open sources. This record contains no units by name, no bases, no launch sites, no inventory, no ranges and no targeting.
Campaign involvement
United States and Israeli strikes on Iran open the war
A large-scale United States and Israeli strike campaign against Iran begins. The Congressional Research Service records more than ten thousand targets struck in Iran by 25 March, and reports the operation's cost as exceeding $11.3bn in its first six days — a figure it notes excludes many associated costs. Iranian retaliation against Israel, United States facilities and Gulf states begins the same day.
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System access
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Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-09-09
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