Originally Posted by
Turbine70
Always a mystery.
I guess I assumed that the Q in QRA means quick, and that 'go there and intercept that' is standard and included in "out of the box".
Fortunately it seems, while benefiting from an external visual, the Q part of QRA wasn't too critical.
Let's say one has an alert aircraft on standby to deal with an urgent threat, and something comes up that does not look really urgent or threatening. In this case, is in better to commit the alert aircraft, or wait for some other aircraft to be prepared to launch?