{"id":515110,"date":"2026-04-06T01:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515110\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T01:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:32:15","slug":"uk-shoots-down-several-iranian-drones-says-ministry-of-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/515110\/","title":{"rendered":"UK shoots down &#8216;several Iranian drones&#8217;, says Ministry of Defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                                UK shoots down &#8216;several Iranian drones&#8217;, says Ministry of Defence                    <\/p>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pa-600x360.webp.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        News<\/p>\n<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/LogoExpress-96x96.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        Express newspaper<br \/>\n                        05\/04\/2026 23:21<\/p>\n<p>The UK&#8217;s Royal Air Force shot down &#8220;multiple Iranian drones&#8221; overnight, the Ministry of Defence says in an update, the BBC reported, Gazeta Express reports.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry says UK Typhoon and F-35 fighter jets continue their defensive missions over the Eastern Mediterranean, Jordan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, supported by RAF Voyager air-to-air refuelling aircraft and Royal Navy Merlin and Wildcat helicopters.<\/p>\n<p>It adds that &#8220;force protection measures in the region continue to be at the highest levels&#8221; and that it is &#8220;continuing to work closely&#8221; with its allies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UK shoots down &#8216;several Iranian drones&#8217;, says Ministry of Defence News Express newspaper 05\/04\/2026 23:21 The UK&#8217;s Royal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-515110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}