Right, so, Iran says it’s brought down two American LUCAS attack drones largely intact, using electronic warfare instead of shooting them to bits, and in the pictures released, an Iranian soldier casually props his boot on one of them, as if he’s just bagged himself a particularly slow-moving pheasant.

American military hardware. Under an Iranian boot. Whoops-a-daisy.

Now, the IRGC Navy claim is that its electronic-warfare unit took control of these aircraft and brought them down safely. Well how in Dicken’s did that do that then Damo? Well the explanation for that could also be somewhat hilarious and I’ll come onto that in a moment.

The point is though, that these aircraft were sent to attack and now Tehran gets to present them as trophies instead, with the sort of gleeful posing normally reserved for someone showing you their enormous courgette that they grew on their allotment. Calm down Jeremy Corbyn, don’t get to excited, because this particular courgette belongs to Trump’s military.

And as I alluded to a moment ago there’s a specific reason these particular drones make such for such an awkward scalp for the Iranians to take, because once you start asking what LUCAS actually is, what makes this particular drone different, where its design came from and what the Americans said about deploying it, that photograph becomes something else entirely.

But before we get to that, here’s the report on what Iran says it has recovered.