Direct proof of use
OSMP1428 directly documents Mikholit conflict use in Iran during the June 2025 Israel-Iran conflict. The record is dated June 18, 2025, reports the location as Isfahan Province, Iran, identifies the munition category as an air-delivered bomb, lists the tentative model as Mikholit, and classifies the item as a guided air-to-surface munition.
The OSMP analyst note states that the photographed Mikholit had been ejected from the weapons pod of an Israeli Hermes 900 drone downed in Iran. It also records that the Hermes 900 carried two weapons pods, each capable of holding four Mikholit bombs.
Sources: OSMP1428 Iran Hermes 900 Recovery
Timeline
The wider conflict began on June 13, 2025, when Israel opened a major operation against Iran and Iran retaliated with ballistic-missile attacks against Israel. The Mikholit evidence belongs to that June conflict period, not to a later transfer, storage, or unrelated possession record.
On June 18, OSMP recorded the Mikholit in Iran from the downed Hermes 900 context. OSMP's Mikholit model page also places the weapon in its June 2025 Iran-Israel conflict collection of verified munition images and summarizes Mikholit use during the 12-day Iran-Israel conflict in 2025.
Sources: CRS Israel-Iran Conflict, OSMP1428 Iran Hermes 900 Recovery, OSMP Mikholit Model Page
Operational role
The supported role is Israeli UAV-launched air-to-surface strike. The direct record ties the munition to an Israeli Hermes 900 weapons pod and identifies the munition as a guided air-delivered bomb; OSMP's model page describes Mikholit as an Israeli-designed guided air-delivered bomb deployable from Hermes 450 and Hermes 900 UAVs.
The public record supports deployment and carried-use evidence in Iran, but it does not identify a specific target struck by the Mikholit in OSMP1428. The photographed item is marked as an unfunctioned whole munition, so this page does not infer a successful detonation or battle-damage effect from that record.
Sources: OSMP1428 Iran Hermes 900 Recovery, OSMP Mikholit Model Page
