RAF Criticised for Using Costly Missiles to Destroy Cheap Iran Drones
4th March 2026
British fighter jets shooting down cheap Iranian drones with expensive air-to-air missiles is akin to “firing golden bullets at plastic targets”, weapons experts have said.
RAF Typhoons and F-35s have been scrambled from airbases across the Middle East to intercept waves of slow-flying kamikaze drones launched by Iran.
On Sunday a Typhoon pilot blasted a one-way suicide drone out of the sky with a high-tech missile as it headed towards Qatar.
Well, that’s always the problem with asymmetric warfare, isn’it? You’d have thought that The Lesson of Ukraine would have gotten home by now. Time to get hot on developing lasers and other directed energy weapons.