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.
Record
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.
Operators
The United States in the Gulf: Fired from United States Navy surface combatants and submarines. The Minab school strike of 28 February 2026 is recorded by the Congressional Research Service as a Tomahawk strike; no launch platform, count or position is recorded here.
Battlefield role
Stand-off strike against fixed targets from the sea, without an aircraft over the target.
Strengths
Long range, a launch that exposes no aircrew, and the ability to open a campaign from ships already in theatre.
Limitations
A weapon for fixed targets, and only as good as the targeting data behind it: the preliminary United States investigation into the Minab strike attributed the deaths to outdated targeting information. No inventory, platform, launch area or count is recorded.
Documented conflict use
Documented in every major United States campaign since 1991. In this war the strike on the school at Minab on 28 February 2026, acknowledged in a preliminary United States investigation, is the one use a source attributes to the type.
Branch & service operators
Dated changes
2026-02-28 Employment The strike on a school at Minab on the war's opening day, which killed 168 people, is recorded by the Congressional Research Service as a Tomahawk strike; a preliminary United States investigation attributed the deaths to outdated targeting information. The one use in this war a source attributes to the type; no launch platform or count is recorded.
Related key events
A United States strike on a school in Minab kills 168 people
A Tomahawk strike on a school in Minab, Iran kills 168 people, most of them children. A preliminary investigation found the United States responsible and attributed the strike to outdated targeting information.
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.
Assessed as of — 2026-02-28 Last reviewed — 2026-10-29