{"id":93999,"date":"2026-03-06T03:30:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/a-beer-at-sunrise-then-back-on-duty-the-british-pilot-who-made-raf-history-shooting-down-iranian-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T03:30:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T22:00:01","slug":"a-beer-at-sunrise-then-back-on-duty-the-british-pilot-who-made-raf-history-shooting-down-iranian-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/a-beer-at-sunrise-then-back-on-duty-the-british-pilot-who-made-raf-history-shooting-down-iranian-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"A beer at sunrise then back on duty \u2013 the British pilot who made RAF history shooting down Iranian drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nqenglish-card-frame\">\n<div class=\"nqenglish-img-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f46c40f609da8df1bee094fb742ccabb316f3b53\/222_140_1263_1010\/master\/1263.jpg?width=1200&#038;height=630&#038;quality=85&#038;auto=format&#038;fit=crop&#038;precrop=40:21,offset-x50,offset-y0&#038;overlay-align=bottom%2Cleft&#038;overlay-width=100p&#038;overlay-base64=L2ltZy9zdGF0aWMvb3ZlcmxheXMvdGctZGVmYXVsdC5wbmc&#038;enable=upscale&#038;s=8a6f249e68efef60345d98916076ba04\" alt=\"A beer at sunrise then back on duty \u2013 the British pilot who made RAF history shooting down Iranian drones\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" style=\"object-fit:cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-cat lang-en\">\u090f\u0928 \u0936\u0949\u0930\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0938'<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-headline\">A beer at sunrise then back on duty \u2013 the British pilot who made RAF history shooting down Iranian drones<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-summary\">F-35 pilot based in Cyprus becomes first to destroy a target in combat \u2013 and celebrates with a single beerIn the clear skies above Jordan on Monday night, a British F-35 pilot made a small piece of history. Flying for four hours alongside two Typhoons, the radar picked up two Shahed drones. The squadron tactics instructor \u2013 whom the Guardian is not naming \u2013 hit the drones with two Asraam missiles.In doing so he became the first pilot of the Royal Air Force\u2019s stealth fighter jet to destroy a target in combat. It was, he said, very high stakes. In those scenarios, it is easy to hit a friendly target by mistake. Continue reading&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"nqenglish-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/mar\/05\/british-pilot-iranian-shahed-drones-raf-akrotiri-cyprus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Story<\/a><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"nqenglish-disclaimer\">Technically enhanced content presented under fair use in public-interest journalism.<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>N Shorts A beer at sunrise then back on duty \u2013 the British pilot who made RAF history<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":94000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowl-PACw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-shorts-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzquest.in\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}