The United States is dominating the skies above Iran. But math is not necessarily on America’s side. Iran is using low-cost drones for precision attacks in the Middle East. The United States and its allies have air defense systems capable of intercepting a vast majority of Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, which are sophisticated yet costly.

As Iran and the U.S. vow to intensify their attacks, Gulf states are caught in the middle, and they're running low on interceptors to block Iran's retaliation.

By Anna Hirtenstein, Andrew Mills and Jonathan Saul March 4 (Reuters) - Iranian drone attacks could disrupt the Strait of Hormuz for months, but how long the Islamic Republic could sustain its missile barrage is less clear,

As the U.S. and its allies face Iran’s response to President Donald Trump’s renewed bombardment of the Middle East, the allied air forces must find a solution to a growing problem: drones.

Iran is bombarding its neighbours and U.S. military bases with low-cost, long-range Shahed drones. The U.A.E. said that by Monday evening it had been targeted by 689 drones in three days, with 44 hitting the country.

The distinctive buzz of the Iranian-designed drones has become a familiar sound in Ukraine over the past four years.

The U.S. launched a series of strikes against Iran as part of Operation Epic Fury, carried out jointly with Israel.

Before the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Washington assembled its largest force and some of its most powerful weaponry in the Middle East in decades.