11 passes? Seriously?
I’d have given them the first 2 for video/audio documentation, the third they’d have eaten a surface to air missile. At the very least...lock on to them and tell them, one more attack run and we’ll be forced to defend ourselves.
Good grief.
No need to waste a missile. The phalanx would easily do the job ... just testing of course.
In P-3's in the late 70's our ROE allowed 3 passes for pictures of war vessels - left side, right side and an overhead.
One time the camera acted up on a pass and we went back in (pass #4) to make up, and got a red flare across our nose for our trouble.