Surely you are not suggesting the Australian Government deployed a
toothless RAAF FA/18 to pretend it was protecting (among other CHOGM
notables) HM QEII and that the armed one was still on the ground?

As I recall, some of the intercepting aircraft on 9/11 in the U.S.
weren't armed. There was a big hoo-hah at the time as to whether they
would have been ordered to crash into the airliner, had they reached
it in time.

all the best -- Dan Ford
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