Conflict catalog
2025 Israel-Iran Conflict: Weapons and Equipment
Direct Israel-Iran fighting, including Israeli air operations over Iran, Iranian retaliation, and associated air-defense and strike activity.
The 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict catalog covers direct state-on-state fighting that opened with Israel's June 2025 Operation Rising Lion against Iranian nuclear, missile, air-defense, and command targets, followed by Iranian ballistic-missile and UAV retaliation, U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, and later renewed air-combat claims. The catalog focus is narrow: systems are included only when sources directly connect them to Israeli or Iranian use in this conflict.
This catalog tracks weapon systems directly documented in Israel-Iran fighting from 2025 onward.
Entries focus on source-backed use in strikes, air-defense engagements, interceptions, and other operations that can be assigned to the Israel or Iran side.
66 weapon systemsConflict Actors
Israel / Iran / United States
Iran
15 weapon systems in this catalog
United States
14 weapon systems in this catalog- United States
Context
- Status
- Published catalog
- Location
- Israel, Iran, and the intervening Middle East air, missile, and support-base corridors
- Countries
- Israel, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Qatar
- Regions
- Middle East, Persian Gulf, Eastern Mediterranean, Levant
- Domains
- air, missile strikes, UAV, air defense, electronic warfare, deep strike
Current catalog coverage is dominated by combat aircraft, long-range strike, ballistic-missile defense, UAV activity, and electronic and air-defense suppression. The two linked weapon entries are Israeli aircraft records, so this catalog should not be read as a complete inventory of every missile, interceptor, drone, or air-defense system used. Open-source reporting is strongest for Israeli strike aircraft, U.S.-supplied munitions and aircraft context, and high-level missile-defense effects; detailed Iranian launcher, UAV, and air-defense equipment attribution remains uneven and should be added only with system-specific sourcing.
Map
Israel, Iran, and the intervening Middle East air, missile, and support-base corridors
Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors.
Timeline
Key Events
Israel opens Operation Rising Lion
Israel began a major operation against Iran with air strikes and reported covert action; open-source military analysis places the first fighter strikes in the early hours of June 13.
Sources: CRS 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict, U.S. Strikes, and Ceasefire, FPRI Rising Lion Air Offensive
Natanz nuclear site is reported hit
The IAEA said Iranian authorities confirmed the Natanz enrichment site had been impacted and reported no elevated radiation levels at that stage.
Sources: IAEA Statement on the Situation in Iran
Iran launches missile retaliation
Iran retaliated with waves of ballistic missiles against Israel, making missile defense, long-range strike, and interceptor consumption central features of the conflict.
Sources: CRS 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict, U.S. Strikes, and Ceasefire, FPRI Shallow Ramparts
United States strikes Iranian nuclear facilities
The United States struck three key Iranian nuclear sites, including Fordow, using B-2 bombers and GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator weapons according to the CRS summary.
Sources: CRS 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict, U.S. Strikes, and Ceasefire
Iran attacks Al Udeid Air Base
Iran fired ballistic missiles at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar after the U.S. strikes; CRS characterized the attack as likely largely symbolic and reported no U.S. casualties.
Sources: CRS 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict, U.S. Strikes, and Ceasefire
Ceasefire takes hold after final salvos
After President Trump announced that Israel and Iran would end hostilities, both sides indicated intent to comply with the ceasefire while reserving self-defense claims.
Sources: CRS 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict, U.S. Strikes, and Ceasefire
IDF reports F-35I air-to-air shootdown
The IDF later described an Israeli F-35I engagement against an Iranian Yak-130 during renewed Iran-Israel fighting, underscoring the catalog's continued air-combat and air-defense emphasis.
Sources: IDF F-35I Iranian Fighter Jet Shootdown
Phases
Opening Israeli air offensive
Israel opened the conflict with coordinated air and reported covert action against Iranian nuclear, missile, air-defense, and senior-command targets.
Missile exchange and air-defense attrition
Iranian ballistic-missile and UAV retaliation drove a sustained defensive-counterair contest, while Israeli strikes continued against Iranian launch, air-defense, and strategic infrastructure targets.
U.S. intervention and ceasefire
U.S. strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities escalated the conflict's external-support dimension before Iran's Al Udeid missile attack and the announced ceasefire.
Post-ceasefire monitoring and renewed direct engagements
The catalog remains open for later directly sourced Israel-Iran engagements, but entries require source-backed connection to a specific side, system, and conflict use.
External Support
The United States is the central outside military-support actor in the sourced record: CRS notes that Israel has procured most of its fighter aircraft and large munitions from U.S. suppliers with nearly $4 billion in annual U.S. aid, and that the United States directly struck Iranian nuclear sites on June 22, 2025. CRS also flags possible follow-on U.S. aid and expedited transfers to replenish aerial munitions and missile-defense interceptors, while FPRI emphasizes the U.S. and Israeli missile-defense effort against Iranian ballistic missiles and one-way attack UAVs. Russia and China are described as potential diplomatic or support variables for Iran, but CRS says neither appeared to have directly involved itself in the June 2025 fighting on Iran's behalf.
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Weapons
2025 Israel-Iran Conflict Weapon Systems
Role
Long-Range Strike
Attacked targets far behind the front line, such as bases, depots, headquarters, or infrastructure.
25 remaining
Role
Interdiction
Disrupted enemy movement, reinforcements, logistics, supply routes, or staging areas.
2 remaining
Role
Area Denial
Made a zone dangerous or unusable for enemy forces, aircraft, ships, or vehicles.
Role
Air Defense
Used to detect, deter, or destroy aircraft, helicopters, drones, or missiles.
5 remaining
Role
Reconnaissance & Surveillance
Used to observe, locate, track, or monitor enemy forces.
Role
Targeting Support
Helped identify, designate, or correct fire against targets for other weapons.
2 remaining
Role
Electronic Warfare
Used to jam, spoof, intercept, disrupt, or protect electronic signals and communications.
Role
Command, Control & Communications
Provided command-and-control connectivity, communications relay, data exchange, or battlefield network support.
Role
Mobility & Logistics
Supported transport, supply, repair, evacuation, fuel, ammunition, or movement across terrain.
Role
Force Protection
Protected troops, vehicles, bases, convoys, ships, or infrastructure from attack.
2 remaining
Role
Deterrence
Discouraged enemy action by threatening serious costs or escalation.
Role
Psychological Impact
Affected morale, fear, public perception, propaganda, or symbolic meaning.
News
Latest 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict News
Houthi Missile Fire at Israel During the Iran War
2025 Israel-Iran ConflictBallistic missileReuters and other reports said Yemen's Houthis fired a missile at Israel as the wider Iran-Israel war expanded, but the missile type was not clearly identified.Sources: Reuters, L'Orient Today, The Jerusalem Post
Conflict Sources
Conflict-level chronology and phases are based on CRS, IAEA, FPRI, IDF, and Wikimedia Commons source objects listed here. The conflict has unusually strong official and open-source coverage for Israeli and U.S. air operations, nuclear-site reporting, and missile-defense effects, but specific Iranian launcher, UAV, and air-defense system attribution is less complete in public sources. Later events should be added only when direct system-specific sourcing is available.
- CRS 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict, U.S. Strikes, and CeasefirePublisher: Congressional Research Service via EveryCRSReport.com | Note: Supports the June 2025 conflict overview, timeline events, phase boundaries, location scope, ceasefire, U.S. strike, Al Udeid support-base context, and external-support summary. | Accessed: 2026-06-20
- IAEA Statement on the Situation in IranPublisher: International Atomic Energy Agency | Note: Supports the Natanz impact statement, nuclear-safety caveat, and source-quality limits around nuclear-site damage. | Accessed: 2026-06-20
- FPRI Rising Lion Air OffensivePublisher: Foreign Policy Research Institute | Note: Supports the open-source account of Israeli air operations, early phase chronology, and the weapon-context emphasis on aircraft, strike, air superiority, and suppression of Iranian defenses. | Accessed: 2026-06-20
- FPRI Shallow RampartsPublisher: Foreign Policy Research Institute | Note: Supports the missile-defense, UAV, air-defense attrition, and interceptor-consumption context for the catalog. | Accessed: 2026-06-20
- IDF F-35I Iranian Fighter Jet ShootdownPublisher: Israel Defense Forces | Note: Supports the later direct Israel-Iran air-combat example already reflected in the connected F-35I weapon entry. | Accessed: 2026-06-20
- Commons Israeli Air Force Jets to Iran ImagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and CC BY-SA 3.0 licensing for the Israeli Air Force fighter-jets image. | Accessed: 2026-06-20
- Commons Natanz Operation Rising Lion MapPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and CC BY-SA 2.0 licensing for the Natanz strike-location map. | Accessed: 2026-06-20
- Commons June 2025 Iranian Strikes on Israel ImagePublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports image provenance and CC BY-SA 4.0 licensing for the missile-strike photograph. | Accessed: 2026-06-20
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