I’m not familiar with what you speak and couldn’t find any incident with a E-3. As the Vice-Commander of Elf-One in Riyadh in the 1980s, things like this catch my eye. I thought the Navy had an E-2C down in China but couldn’t find that either.
Perhaps they are talking about the P-3 incident.
Yeah, I realized the typo after I hit post... but I figured someone would correct it for me ;)
It was the E2 that clipped the Mig that was ‘waving’ to the crew..