- Domain
- Air
- NCF capability
- Air strike
- Military Balance category
- Unmanned combat aerial vehicles
- SIPRI category
- Aircraft
- Evidence that places a platform here
- unmanned combat · \bUCAVs?\b · combat (UAV|drone) · armed (UAV|drone) · MQ-(1|9) · Bayraktar · Wing Loong · CH-[45]\b · Hermes 900
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 StatesNoneUnited KingdomNoneAustraliaLegacy only · 1FranceOn order only · 1GermanyModern and on order · 3JapanNoneSouth KoreaNoneCanadaNoneItalyOn order only · 1IndiaNoneTürkiyeModern · 7Saudi ArabiaNoneBrazilNoneIndonesiaOn order only · 3MexicoNoneArgentinaNoneSouth AfricaNoneRussiaModern · 6ChinaNoneIsraelNoneUkraineModern · 1TaiwanModern · 2IranModern · 10North 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 3 of these 13, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayraktar TB2 | 2 | 80 | 12 | 2014 | TUR | |
| Mohajer-6 | 2 | 241 | 2017 | IRN | ||
| Altair | 1 | 2021 | RUS | |||
| Aselsan Albatros-K | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Aselsan Albatros-S | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |||
| Asisguard Songar | 1 | TUR | ||||
| Baykar Bayraktar Akıncı | 1 | 9 | 2021 | TUR | ||
| Baykar Bayraktar TB3 | 1 | 6 | TUR | |||
| Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat | 1 | 17 | AUS | |||
| Fotros | 1 | 3 | IRN | |||
| H-110 Sarir | 1 | 10 | IRN | |||
| Kaman 22 | 1 | 2021 | IRN | |||
| Karrar | 1 | IRN | ||||
| Luch Korsar | 1 | 2 | 2015 | RUS | ||
| Mohajer 10 | 1 | 1 | IRN | |||
| NCSIST Teng Yun | 1 | 3 | 2018 | TWN | ||
| Orion | 1 | 2019 | RUS | |||
| Orlan-10 | 1 | 1,000 | 2013 | RUS | ||
| Shahed 149 | 1 | 3 | 2022 | IRN | ||
| Shahed 171 | 1 | IRN | ||||
| Shahed 191 | 1 | 50 | IRN | |||
| Sofreh Mahi | 1 | IRN | ||||
| TCB Marlin SİDA | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |||
| European Medium Altitude Long Endurance remotely piloted aircraft system | 0 | 33 | 2016 | DEU |
Fingerprints
Each nation's equipment fingerprint with only combat uav in colour.
Australia Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat Block 1 Block 2 17
France European Medium Altitude Long Endurance remotely piloted aircraft system – 0
Germany Heron TP (Eitan) 5, Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk RQ-4D Phoenix (Block 40) 5, European Medium Altitude Long Endurance remotely piloted aircraft system – –
Italy Baykar Bayraktar TB3 Astore Levante 0
Türkiye Aselsan Albatros-K 1, Aselsan Albatros-S 1, TCB Marlin SİDA 1
Indonesia Baykar Bayraktar Akıncı – 0, Baykar Bayraktar TB3 0, Bayraktar TB2 –
Russia Orlan-10 1,000, Mohajer-6 20, Luch Korsar 2
Ukraine Bayraktar TB2 80
Taiwan NCSIST Teng Yun 2–4, MQ-9 Reaper MQ-9B SkyGuardian 1–3
Iran Mohajer-6 155–287, Shahed 191 35–65, H-110 Sarir 7–13