“She Slept Peacefully — Until the Captain Screamed: ‘Any Fighter Pilots on Board?!’”

She issued another command over the radio, timing the next maneuver to coincide with the moment the fighters would enter effective tracking range. All 4 commercial aircraft turned again, but not together, not symmetrically, each move calibrated to break up targeting solutions and create airspace complexity.

The first pass came fast.

The lead SU-35 screamed continue reading …