There you go doubling down on your stupid and ignorance.
Recon intercept is NOT armed encounter between forces.
But, AGAIN, because you know jack about military and have never served, you don’t know this.
I served with Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squardron Three. Two different warships. White House Communications Agency and Defense Communications Agency.
And I’m here to tell you, and everyone reading here...You’re a pussy-ass neocon chickenhawk spouting off about things you know nothing about.
“Recon intercept is NOT armed encounter between forces.”
You’re not even clicking on the links, are you?
Excerpts from the last link I wasted my time giving to you:
On 11 April, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky presented American Ambassador Alan G. Kirk a formal protest note stating a “B-29” type plane had penetrated twenty-one kilometers into Soviet territory. “Owing to this, an advanced Soviet fighter was forced to fire in reply, after which the American plane turned toward the sea and disappeared.”
On 4 September 1950, a four-plane combat air patrol from the aircraft carrier Valley Forge intercepted a Soviet twin-engine patrol bomber. The flight leader claimed that the Soviet aircraft fired on him. In self-defense, the American fighters shot down the Soviet aircraft.
On 7 October 1952, an Air Force RB-29 aircraft was conducting a photo-mapping mission off the coast of northern Japan and southern Kuriles. A Japanese fisherman later told an Air Force investigator that a Russian fighter had dived from above and fired at the American plane, causing its tail section to break off. Search efforts failed to recover any of the eight crewmembers.