The US scored its first Iranian Shahed kill with a counter-drone system proven in Ukraine

US soldiers used the Merops system to intercept an Iranian drone for the first time this week. Photo by WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP via Getty Images The US used an interceptor drone proven in Ukraine to down an Iranian Shahed for the first time. The US surged the Merops counter-drone system into the Middle East at the start of the Iran war. Soldiers recorded at least one interception of a Shahed in Kuwait this week, a US official said. American forces shot down an Iranian Shahed in the Middle East…