Tom Cruise like 'Top Gun' moment

[kinnem]

Gotta love it (at least in a sense). Escorting fighters protect drone in international air space from Iranian fighters.

https://medium.com/war-is-boring/ab0dbf5707f

On Sept. 17, the general not only confirmed that the escorting fighters were F-22 stealth fighters but also said that: “He [the Raptor pilot] flew under their aircraft [the F-4s] to check out their weapons load without them knowing that he was there, and then pulled up on their left wing and then called them and said ‘you really ought to go home.’”

If the episode went exactly as Welsh described it, it was something more similar to Maverick’s close encounter with Russian MiG-28s in Top Gun than a standard interception.