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"Who can forget the Hainan Island incident from 2001."

Given that incident, isn't there some way to provide an escort, or some other protection, when they're flying near the Chicoms?

[vooch]

just part of the job description

an escort would only increase luminous of a incident which no one wants

[Rembrandt]

I used to fly on AWACS C-121’s in the late ‘60’s and we usually had a fighter CAP in the Gulf of Tonkin.