Iran’s Missile Launcher Arsenal Holds Steady Despite Strikes

An Iran-made missile and its launchers during a rally in Tehran in 2025.

Photographer: Hossein Beris/AFP/Getty Images

The number of Iranian missile launchers has held steady after a week of unrelenting airstrikes, according to Israeli and western estimates, indicating the difficulty of finding small, mobile targets without having complete control of the skies.

Israeli Defense Forces officials said Thursday that two-thirds of the Islamic Republic’s launchers had been destroyed. That’s little changed from the 60% reported last week.