If it was a Chinese/Russian missile don’t you think that they would be bragging about it? the same thing with the twa 800 missile theory...if terrorist shot down something like that they would be on the news bragging about it...the first principle of terrorism is to terrorize...not to be silent about it...and the batteries on stinger missiles last only four to five years...
Are you kidding? Of course not.
Read "Blind Man's Bluff" about the US Navy's covert submarine warfare against the Soviets from the '60s through the '80s.
"Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage (ISBN 0-06-103004-X), published in 1998 by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew, is a non-fiction book about U.S. Navy submarine operations during the Cold War. Several operations are described in the book, such as the use of USS Parche to tap Soviet undersea communications cables and USS Halibut to do the same in Operation Ivy Bells. The book also contains an extensive list of submarine collisions and U.S. submarine awards."
when “they” conduct a demonstration intended to send a message to the potus, no, “they” do not brag about it
No one bragged about PanAm 103, did they?
The norks did not brag about sinking the ROKN ship, did they?
No one bragged about the oil platforms (US/BP and Venezuelean) blown up in the Gulf