Royal Navy to Arm Type 45 Destroyers With DragonFire Laser by 2027
🛡️ ROYAL NAVY — At $13 a drone kill, Britain just repriced naval defense. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: DragonFire's 50kW laser on Type 45s by 2027 matters now: the IRGC drone campaign exposed the cost trap — Iran fires $500 drones, NATO intercepts with $1M+ missiles. At $13 per shot, the UK breaks the attrition math. Carrier groups stop burning interceptor stocks on mass drone waves. The constraint shifts from inventory to energy — a structural change in layered Gulf defense.
