It was intercepted, but not brought down.
It was Tom Cruise. Publicity stunt for Maverick.
“It was intercepted...”
By a few countries and they may not be telling the whole story as they would have gotten the call sign off the aircraft and they knew right then who owned it and where it had been hangered or tied down.
Due to mandates, the FAA globally conducts certain functions for safety in and outside of the United States, such as performing air traffic control handoffs and assessing whether a foreign civil aviation authority complies with international aviation standards. This aircraft was owned by someone and was handed off a number of times on radar. The laws for transponders are in ยง91.215 ATC transponder and altitude reporting equipment and use. And we were involved as we sent a couple of Falcons to go visit them.
wy69