THE UK’s RAF scrawled a message on a missile destined for ISIS fiends that read “Love from Manchester”.

The Sun reports that the defiant note was initially thought to be a social media hoax, but RAF bosses confirmed today that it was genuine.

Suicide bomber Salman Abedi killed 22 people on Monday at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester after blowing himself up as the show was ending.

It is understood that the message was the work of a drone squadron stationed at a secret location in the Middle East, done as a response to this week’s terror attack in the north west that killed 22.

The snap appeared on Twitter with the caption: “RAF Armourer on a Reaper UAV squadron wrote this on a Hellfire missile before taking off on a Syria mission”.

An RAF spokesperson said: “The RAF can confirm the photo was genuine”.

A source added: “The sentiment of the message is understandable under the circumstances.

“There’s a history of messages being written on missiles in the RAF.

“It’s unlikely the individual responsible for it will be disciplined.”

The tradition of customisation stretches back to World War 1, and has featured in every conflict since.

Drones are used extensively by troops battling ISIS in Syria.

We told earlier this month how one drone strike sensationally stopped a public execution happening.

The Reaper drone initially spotted a group of fighters from the depraved terror group, also known as Daesh, mustering a large crowd in the town of Abu Kamal in eastern Syria.

A spokesman for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) confirmed that the drone blasted two brainwashed thugs on a nearby roof top prompting the other extremists to flee the scene.

Between December 2015 and December 2016 the RAF launched 73 air strikes over Syria, killing an estimated 120 brainwashed ISIS fighters and injuring a further 12.

It comes as the Queen today branded the attack “very wicked” while visiting victims at the Royal Manchester Children’s hospital.

She heard from a dad who recalled the terrifying moment he saw his daughter wave at him before the bomb went off right behind her.

Earlier in the day the nation paid tribute to the victims of the tragedy by observing a minute’s silence.

And this afternoon it has been reported that twisted Abedi’s bomb-making factory has been discovered in his south Manchester home.

This article originally appeared in The Sun