From: "Adam Flinton" 


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> Several years ago, friend Moammar decided he wouldn't permit US RC-135
flights
> in international waters off his coast.  So he had his AF intercept one.
They
> didn't do anything the first time but he said that the next time his
fighters
> would shoot it down.  The next RC-135 mission had a flight of Navy
fighters
> flying in close formation with it (looks like one return on the radar
scope),
> when the Libyan fighters approached the Navy fighters peeled off and
splashed
> them.  Thus far, Moammar has decided to live with the
couple-of-times-a-week
> flights.
>

Fair enough. It's also fair enough to send your fighters where the heck
they want to go in "international airspace" including close
enough to the RC135 to make their surveillance instruments useless.


Adam

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