THEY ACTUALLY TRAINED FOR THIS POSSIBILITY: F-15Es Tried To Shoot Down Iranian Kamikaze Drones With Laser Guided Bombs.

“I’ve dropped a lot of JDAMs in my career. … I have dropped a JDAM on a moving vehicle in the past,” he said. “So now I’m thinking, okay, if I’m out of missiles, what am I going to do? Like, this thing, this drone, it’s near the ground, it’s low altitude, but it’s not on the ground. It’s moving a little bit faster than the vehicles we usually train against, but it’s not moving that much faster. And so, thinking through what changes do I need to make to my current procedures to do this?”

“We had shot all of our missiles. We’d gone all the way to the east. We turned around. We’d come back to the west. We’ve shot some more missiles. We find another drone,” he continued. “We just set it up, just like we would in attacking a car, and we made a few key changes to the actual procedure. And so we drop the bomb. Bomb comes off normal, normal [sic].”

“So, like the drones going this way. So we’ve swooped in, we’ve dropped a bomb, and then now we’re lazing it,” he added. “The bomb, it looks like it hits, big explosion. And I was like, hit. And then just out of this massive cloud, like in Star Wars, just here comes the drone, just right out of the cloud. And I was like, oh, miss.”

The decision was made to not attempt a second bombing run on the drone. Two other separate unsuccessful attempts were made to down Iranian drones using laser-guided bombs.

“They missed further than I did. Mine was the closest, just to be very clear,” Causey said.

Nice try, but lobbing laser-guided bombs at drones goes to show how unprepared we are for the threat.