[DearAbby]

There not!!!!!!!!!!!! That would have been a very stupid move on the part of the Russian Pilot. We would have shot him down in a blaze of gunfire.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

We would have shot him down in a blaze of gunfire.

With what?

[Sword_Svalbardt]

With what? A P-3, and an EP3 Aries 2 are for surveillance. Where were they at Moneron, or Sakhalin Islands, near Vladisvostok? New Soviet Boomer? New surface combatant? New aircraft? We were looking at something wouldn't ya' think? The only way the CTL's (crypto tech linguists) could have heard that would havew been if the Soviet Pilot would have allowed it. Fun, the kind of things you learn after twenty years in the military. P-3's can only launch Torpedoes, and cruise missiles, they do not have the fire control suite to launch any type of air to air stuff.

[cynicom]

Shot him down with what???