- Domain
- Air
- NCF capability
- Air strike
- Military Balance category
- Loitering munitions
- SIPRI category
- Missiles
- Evidence that places a platform here
- loitering munition · kamikaze drone · suicide drone · one.way attack · Shahed · Geran · Switchblade · Lancet · Harop · Harpy
The 24 nations
None, legacy only, modern, or modern and on order. Modern: in service from 1995, or the current generations of fighters, tanks, submarines and long-range air defence.
United StatesModern · 1United KingdomModern · 1AustraliaNoneFranceNoneGermanyNoneJapanNoneSouth KoreaLegacy only · 1CanadaModern · 1ItalyLegacy only · 1IndiaModern · 7TürkiyeModern · 3Saudi ArabiaNoneBrazilNoneIndonesiaNoneMexicoNoneArgentinaNoneSouth AfricaNoneRussiaModern · 3ChinaModern · 2IsraelNoneUkraineLegacy only · 1TaiwanModern · 1IranModern · 3North KoreaNone
Generation timeline
Each platform from its first flight or launch to today, the 40 most operated, earliest in service first. Grey is development and, after the lead operator retires it, the years other nations keep it; colour is service.
- Development, from first flight or launch
- In service, from first deployment
- After its lead operator retires it, still held elsewhere
- Today
- Flag beside the name: the home country
Dates from Wikidata: first flights or launches for 1 of these 9, retirements for 0. A bar without grey at its start has no first flight recorded.
Platforms
Ranked by the number of the 24 nations that hold each.
| Platform | Operators | Active | On order | In service | Generation | Origin |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AeroVironment Switchblade | 4 | 4,400 | 685 | 2012 | USA | |
| WARMATE | 3 | 690 | POL | |||
| Arash | 2 | 2022 | IRN | |||
| 358 missile | 1 | 2019 | ||||
| CM-501 | 1 | 2010 | CHN | |||
| Geran-2 | 1 | 2022 | RUS | |||
| HESA Shahed 136 | 1 | IRN | ||||
| Hero-30 (Made by Uvision and Rheinmetall Italia S.p.A.) | 1 | ISR | ||||
| IAI Harop | 1 | ISR | ||||
| IAI Harpy | 1 | ISR | ||||
| NCSIST Chien Hsiang | 1 | 2017 | TWN | |||
| Nagastra-1 | 1 | 480 | IND | |||
| STM Kargu | 1 | 2017 | TUR | |||
| Shahed 131 | 1 | 100 | 2022 | IRN | ||
| Spike Firefly | 1 | 200 | 2021 | ISR | ||
| TAI Şimşek | 1 | TUR | ||||
| TASL ALS Mk-II | 1 | IND | ||||
| YIHA-III | 1 | TUR | ||||
| loitering munition | 1 | 250 | IND |
Fingerprints
Each nation's equipment fingerprint with only loitering munition in colour.
United States AeroVironment Switchblade 4,400
United Kingdom AeroVironment Switchblade –
South Korea WARMATE 190
Canada AeroVironment Switchblade –
Italy Hero-30 (Made by Uvision and Rheinmetall Italia S.p.A.) –
India Nagastra-1 480, loitering munition 250, Spike Firefly 200
Türkiye STM Kargu –, TAI Şimşek –, YIHA-III –
Russia Shahed 131 100, Arash –, Geran-2 –
China CM-501XA –, CTL-181A Drone Swarm –
Ukraine WARMATE 400
Taiwan NCSIST Chien Hsiang –
Iran 358 missile –, Arash –, HESA Shahed 136 –