No one questions jets can shoot down unarmed surveillance drones operating in the jet's flight parameters when using an AtA missile operating within it's design specifications.

Georgia operates 10 year old Hermes 450 drones

with a primary mission of reconnaissance, surveillance and communications relay

The craft has an 18,000 foot ceiling and has a 52 horsepower Wankel, internal combustion, engine.

Hardly front-line, high-tech, equipment.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre