THE HARDWARE BILL
Published totals of equipment lost, damaged or claimed destroyed, one row per source.
Week of Oct 19, 2026Checked against sources Oct 19, 2026
Updated weekly. Totals from different sources are not additive.
United States
| What is counted | Figure | Evidence | Dates | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. aircraft lost or damaged (crewed and uncrewed)Fixed-wing, rotary-wing and uncrewed aircraft reported lost or damaged since Feb 28: about 63 destroyed or lost, 17 damaged, 1 status unclear. Includes enemy fire, friendly fire (three F-15Es over Kuwait), combat-zone mishaps, aircraft hit on the ground, and aircraft destroyed by U.S. forces during a rescue (two MC-130Js, four AH-6s). Includes at least 45 MQ-9s. | 81 aircraft | Independently reported | as of Sep 17, 2026CRS gives no cut-off date; Sep 17 is the latest dated entry in its table.published Oct 5, 2026 |
A compilation of news reports, CENTCOM/DoD statements and the Lead IG report, described by CRS as "reportedly" lost or damaged; some figures rest on anonymous officials. Some damaged aircraft (eight F-15Es, KC-135s) have returned to service. The May 13 edition of the same report counted 42. Does not cover personnel killed or wounded. |
| U.S. crewed aircraft destroyed or damagedCrewed airframes in Lead IG Table 5: four F-15E, one F-35A, one A-10, seven KC-135, one E-3, one HH-60W, four AH-6, one AH-64, one MH-60. Destroyed and damaged are not separated in this count. | 21 airframes | Officially acknowledged | as of Jun 30, 2026published Sep 9, 2026 |
Covers Feb 28 – Jun 30 only, so it is lower than later tallies. The PDF could not be opened from our sandbox; the figures are as read from Table 5 by DroneXL. published_at is the PDF's posting date in its URL. |
| U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones destroyedMQ-9s "destroyed in various circumstances" (Lead IG Table 5: "As many as 30"). | up to 30 MQ-9s | Officially acknowledged | as of Jun 30, 2026published Sep 9, 2026 |
Covers Feb 28 – Jun 30. Causes are not separated (enemy fire, mishap, other). |
| U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones lostMQ-9s lost since Feb 28, per U.S. officials; reported as roughly a quarter of the pre-war fleet. | at least 45 MQ-9s | Independently reported | as of Aug 13, 2026No cut-off given; dated to the Washington Post report.published Aug 13, 2026 |
Anonymous U.S. officials speaking to The Washington Post (Aug 13); the Post itself could not be opened from our sandbox (robots). CRS uses this figure in its 81-aircraft count. |
| U.S. MQ-9 drones Iran says it shot downIran's running count of MQ-9s it says it downed; the Sep 16 claim was announced as the "52nd". | 52 MQ-9s | Claimed by Iran (IRGC, via Tasnim) | as of Sep 16, 2026published Sep 16, 2026 |
Headline wording only ("IRGC downs 52nd US MQ-9 drone south of Iran"); the article body could not be retrieved. Not confirmed by the U.S. |
| Structures and equipment damaged or destroyed at U.S. military sites217 structures and 11 pieces of equipment at 15 U.S. military sites in the region, identified in 109 verified Iranian-released images plus Planet satellite imagery (19 images excluded as inconclusive). Includes an E-3 and a tanker at Prince Sultan AB, THAAD radars and equipment, Patriot equipment, radomes and satellite dishes. | at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment | Visually documented | as of Apr 14, 2026published May 6, 2026 |
Damage visible in imagery only. CENTCOM declined to address the findings; a military spokesperson said "assessments of destruction are complex and can be misleading in some cases." |
| Damaged structures at U.S. bases examined by CSISStructures CSIS examined in overhead imagery for its base-repair estimate. | 122 structures | Visually documented | as of Jun 23, 2026No imagery cut-off given; dated to publication.published Jun 23, 2026 |
A separate count from the Post's 228; CSIS says restricted imagery means it is incomplete. |
| THAAD radar destroyed at Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, JordanOne THAAD AN/TPY-2 radar, destroyed early in the war, per U.S. officials and satellite imagery. | 1 radar | Independently reported | as of Mar 7, 2026published Mar 7, 2026 |
Unnamed U.S. officials to CNN; not confirmed on the record at the time. CBO's Sep 15 letter later cites "a THAAD radar destroyed by Iran" as a battle loss (see us-equipment-cost-cbo). |
| Cost of U.S. equipment losses (CBO)Battle losses DoD would have to change its plans to replace (e.g. a THAAD radar, aircraft). The high end assumes DoD seeks supplemental funding for all battle losses. Aircraft already due for replacement count nothing (no cost for the four F-15Es). | $1.9–3.3 billion | Officially acknowledged | as of Aug 1, 2026published Sep 15, 2026 |
A CBO estimate (U.S. government, legislative branch), not a DoD figure. Excludes base and facility repairs, which CBO says it cannot estimate. |
| Cost of U.S. equipment losses (Lead IG)Equipment losses within the $33.4 billion war cost reported to the Lead IG. | $3.7 billion | Officially acknowledged | as of Jun 29, 2026published Sep 9, 2026 |
Excludes infrastructure repairs. Figure as read by DroneXL; the PDF could not be opened from our sandbox. |
| Cost of U.S. equipment losses and damage (CSIS)Mostly aircraft (the 42 in CRS's May count plus several tilt-rotors and a mobile THAAD radar). High end: one-for-one replacement; low end excludes aircraft due for retirement (A-10, E-3). Repairs assumed at 25–75% of replacement cost. | $1.8–3.5 billion | Independently reported | as of Jun 23, 2026No cut-off given; dated to publication.published Jun 23, 2026 |
Think-tank estimate. Base equipment is counted under base damage, not here. |
| Cost of repairing damage at U.S. bases (CSIS)Repair cost scaled to the Washington Post's 228 damaged structures, from DoD construction handbooks; CSIS's own 122 structures come to $2.2–5.1 billion. | $4–9.4 billion | Independently reported | as of Jun 23, 2026No cut-off given; dated to publication.published Jun 23, 2026 |
Visible damage only; CSIS says the real cost will be higher. DoD has not published base repair costs. |
- U.S. Navy ships damaged: no published total. No officially acknowledged or independently documented total. CENTCOM denied Iran's claim of a missile strike on USS Abraham Lincoln (Mar 1: "The Lincoln was not hit") and said neither destroyer was struck in the May 4 Hormuz transit (USS Truxtun, USS Mason).
- To Vima (Mar 1, 2026)
- The Maritime Executive (May 4, 2026)
Allied and commercial
- Allied and commercial ships damaged: no published total. No single published total located. Individual ship incidents are in the corpus (event_type SHIP_INCIDENT).
Israel
- Israeli aircraft, drones and equipment lost: no published total. No IDF-acknowledged or independently compiled total for the 2026 war located.
Iran — figures claimed by the U.S. and Israel
| What is counted | Figure | Evidence | Dates | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iranian ships sunkIranian ships that "are at the bottom of the ocean," per Gen. Caine at the Apr 8 Pentagon briefing. He said only half of the IRGC's small attack boats had been sunk. | 150 ships | Claimed by U.S. (Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) | as of Apr 8, 2026published Apr 10, 2026 |
Officials and analysts told the Washington Post the Apr 8 claims may be overstated (Defense One). |
| Iranian vessels destroyed or damagedIranian vessels destroyed or damaged since the start of operations, per CENTCOM. No breakdown by type or by destroyed vs damaged. | more than 155 vessels | Claimed by U.S. (CENTCOM) | as of Apr 6, 2026published Apr 6, 2026 |
Outlet paraphrase; no primary CENTCOM release located. Earlier CENTCOM figures were "over 100" (Mar 16) and "more than 140" (Mar 24). |
| Iranian air-defense targets struckAir-defense targets struck (not confirmed destroyed), per Gen. Caine on Apr 8. Caine said "All of these systems are gone." | more than 1,500 targets | Claimed by U.S. (Gen. Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs) | as of Apr 8, 2026published Apr 10, 2026 |
Targets are strike aimpoints, not a count of systems. |
| Share of Iran's missile launchers neutralizedLaunchers "neutralized" ("some destroyed and others rendered unusable"), per Israeli military assessments; officials estimated 100–200 launchers still active. | more than 60 percent of launchers | Claimed by Israel (Israeli military assessments, unnamed officials) | as of Mar 6, 2026published Mar 6, 2026 |
Early-war figure; no later IDF total located. U.S. intelligence later assessed roughly half of launchers intact (reported, undated). |
- Iranian aircraft destroyed: no published total. No U.S. or Israeli cumulative claim located.
- Officially acknowledged
- Published by a U.S. government body (DoD, its Inspector General, CBO).
- Claimed
- Stated by one side about the other's losses. Not independently confirmed.
- Independently reported
- Compiled by researchers or reported by news outlets, often citing unnamed officials.
- Visually documented
- Counted from satellite or verified imagery; only visible damage is included.
Each row is one published figure from one source, with the source's own hedge (“at least”, “up to”). Rows overlap and are never added together; where no source publishes a total, the category is listed as a gap rather than estimated.
Last change Oct 19, 2026: First edition.
Methodology
- Cadence.
- One edition a week, dated by its Monday. Each Monday every row is re-checked against its source; new totals are added as new rows, and every change is logged in the file's changelog.
- One row, one source.
- A figure appears exactly as one source published it. When two sources count the same thing differently, both rows are shown. Rows are never summed, netted or reconciled, because their scopes and cut-off dates overlap.
- No estimates.
- We do not estimate, extrapolate or fill in. A category with no published total is listed as a gap, with what the record does say.
- Hedges are kept.
- “At least”, “up to” and “more than” come from the source. A range is shown as a range.
- Two dates.
- “As of” is the date a figure runs through; “published” is when the source released it. When a source gives no cut-off, the row says so and uses the publication date.
- Claims.
- Figures one side gives about the other side's losses are labelled with who makes the claim. They are not confirmed by the side that suffered the loss or by independent evidence.
- Costs.
- Cost rows are the publisher's own estimates of replacement and repair, with their stated exclusions. They are not our numbers.
- People.
- This page counts equipment. Many of these losses involved crews who were killed or injured. Casualty figures are not part of this ledger.
- Source file.
- data/manual/hardware.yaml, validated by loadHardware in packages/corpus.