“what have we here? I think we have Jihadist who had a mission to test American response to his intrusion into our air space in a civilian airplane..”
A probe - I’m with you on that.
The only problem is that the plane was not shot down. I wonder what the rules of engagement (ROE) were. If I were C-in-C my standing order would that any aircraft entering US airspace without a flight plan and failing to answer the radio within three minutes would be summarily shot down.
We don’t seem to understand that these people aim to convert, enslave and/or kill us to extinction. I don’t know what part of that people don’t understand.
Walking biological bomb. Read a Clancy book about it a year or so ago.