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Equipment catalogue · shared across conflicts

Reconnaissance UAV · armed medium-altitude reconnaissance and strike

Mohajer family

Iran's reusable armed reconnaissance drone — the airframe that watches and strikes and returns, as distinct from the one-way attack families that make up the salvo counts — and the type most often named in Iran's drone exports.

Mohajer Iran The Mohajer line dates from the 1980s; the Mohajer-6 entered service in 2018, and the Mohajer-10 was displayed in 2023

Status as of
2026-10
Last reviewed
2026-10-29

AssessmentModerate confidence

Recognition context, not a stat sheet. The catalogue covers major publicly documented systems relevant to the conflicts Vigil covers — not an exhaustive order of battle. No quantities, availability or current allocations are recorded.

The record What this system is, where it comes from, who operates it and which of Vigil’s modules it is relevant to — with the evidence each of those rests on.

Fielded Evidence: Associated
Silhouette · not to scale

Record

FamilyMohajer
VariantsMohajer-4; Mohajer-6; Mohajer-10
OriginIran
EraThe Mohajer line dates from the 1980s; the Mohajer-6 entered service in 2018, and the Mohajer-10 was displayed in 2023
Appears inIran–Gulf 2026 war

Conflict relevance

This is the catalogue's single record for this system. It is relevant to the module below; each module's Force Atlas shows how it is used there.

Iran–Gulf · Force Atlas

Operators

Iran and the Gulf · Primary operator

Iran and the Gulf: Reported in service with both the Guard and the Artesh. Which service flew what in 2026 is not established, and no unit, base or inventory is recorded.

Battlefield role

Surveillance and precision strike at medium altitude, over the Gulf's water and coasts as much as over land.

Strengths

Reusable, with sensors and guided munitions, and a production line mature enough to have been exported and transferred abroad.

Limitations

Slow, unstealthy and vulnerable to any modern air defence; a reconnaissance airframe over a sea patrolled by two navies and a carrier fleet is more exposed than a one-way drone launched in mass. No inventory, unit, base or count is recorded, and no sortie in the 2026 war is attributed to the type by the sources read.

Documented conflict use

Export to and use by Ethiopia, and transfer to Russia for use against Ukraine, are documented in open reporting; Houthi-held airframes are not established. Its employment in the 2026 Gulf war is not type-attributed.

Reported & historical formation associations

  • IRGC Aerospace Force UAV command Reported · low confidence

    Iran's reusable armed reconnaissance drone, reported in service with both the Guard and the Artesh; which service flies what is not established, and no sortie in the 2026 war is attributed to the type.

Partial Confidence: Moderate Sources: IISS Military Balance↗ · Defense Intelligence Agency — Iran Military Power (2019)↗ · Congressional Research Service — Iran, the Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz · CSIS Missile Threat↗ Methodology Corrections

Assessed as of — 2026-10 Last reviewed — 2026-10-29