Originally Posted by
Green Flash
What orca said. Say Captain Tupolev lurks off the Mull of Kintyre, picks up a British or American boat outbound and is detected by a P8 doing so. What happens then? Does the P8 drop on him?
They would act in accordance with the instructions in the operation order and employ the appropriate tactics. You don’t really expect a more detailed answer, at least not from anyone who might know?
I suggest that you might like to make a start by reading The Silent Deep by Jinks and Hennessy,
ISBN 10: 1846145805/ ISBN 13: 9781846145803
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