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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. 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