Hezbollah Mirsad-1

An early Hezbollah reconnaissance-drone designation documented in 2004–2005 reporting. NBC records competing accounts of manufacture and Nasrallah’s claimed explosive capacity; FAS discusses the early flights. Historical names and claimed loads must not become a verified universal configuration.^[1][2]

Archived research edition. Archive statistics and new dossiers are available on the current profile.

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No scaled drawing is provided for this configuration. See the sourced dimensions and their limitations.

Schematic top view of the general configuration. Not to scale and not an exact depiction of the model.

The numbers, with their sources

Intervals preserve the published bounds; they are not statistical confidence intervals. A blank lower or upper bound stays open. Values belong to the named configuration, not every aircraft.

Published flight range

Unknown in reviewed sources

Warhead mass

40–50 kg^[1]Mirsad 1 · Nasrallah November 2004 explosive-load claim, relayed by NBC in 2005 · 2004
Official report; not an independent test

Body length

Unknown in reviewed sources

Wingspan

Unknown in reviewed sources

Family & configurations

Mirsad-1 / Mersad (Hezbollah)

No sourced family relationship recorded in this edition. Similar roles do not establish a common design.

What does it cost?

Published USD figures use different price bases and years. Airframes, export packages and support are not equivalent. These are not current offers or verified production costs.

Unknown in reviewed sources

Source notebook

NBC News · Original reporting on Hezbollah’s Mirsad 1 claim
2005-04-12 · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Firsthand reporting
Federation of American Scientists · Hezbollah and the Use of Drones as a Weapon of Terrorism
Publication date not stated · Source consulted: 2026-11-01 · Approximate / analyst compilation

DroneLedger · Mirsad-1 / Mersad (Hezbollah) · 2026-11-01 ·