- 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 Aerospace Force's unmanned-aircraft component — the organisation behind the long-range one-way attack drones that were the other half of every Iranian salvo, and whose commander was killed with the Aerospace Force's leadership in June 2025.
- 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 and the region
- Notable history
- Iran's drone programme grew inside the Guard, and its operational organisation sits in the Aerospace Force beside the missile force. The Israeli strike of 13 June 2025 that killed the Aerospace Force's commander is reported to have killed the commander of its drone component in the same meeting. The component's product is the drone half of the salvo counts: the slow, cheap one-way attack aircraft that arrive in numbers alongside the missiles and that Gulf air defences spent the spring of 2026 engaging. Structural record only.
- Strengths
- Cheap mass at long range, and a production base that has been easier to disperse than missile manufacturing.
- Limitations
- Slow and individually easy to intercept; effect comes from numbers and from the cost imposed on defenders, not from survivability. No units, bases, inventory or launch geography are recorded here.
Documented equipment
Quick actions
System access
Where this record connects into the rest of Vigil. Each row is here because this organisation actually reaches it.
Sensitivity: Public · structural Confidence: Moderate Sources: Iranian armed-forces institutional reference · Congressional Research Service — Iran, the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz · IISS Military Balance↗ Methodology Corrections
Assessed as of — 2026-09 Last reviewed — 2026-09-09
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