Theoretical Question
How fast does a Cheiftain go loaded with pindemonium nitrate? 200 knots? (Forgive me if that's too fast, however it could be any aircraft)
With a 40 mile exclusion zone @ 200 knots... 200/40 = 5 minutes.
They'd wanna be awfully fast F111's to catch an aircraft at that speed. Lets say it took off from a field just on the boundary, kept at very low level; "potentially" it may go undetected for a short period, say a minute, then the RAAF controller has a short amount of time to scramble an F111 or FA18 to first find the theoretical Cheiftain, then await instructions from Police Commissioner Christine Nixon.
So if it's detected within a minute of entering airspace and identified as a potential threat (how long do they try and call it for before it becomes a threat?) then they have 3.5 minutes to intercept it, identify it, determine that it is actually hostile, try and contact it, line it up and shoot it down, preferably over a non population dense area...
What if someone had a stack of mannicans (dummy's) in it... it would look like a charter flight?
How long does a missile take from a destroyer parked at Brighton to intercept a 200 knot Chieftain flying at 100ft agl that could be 15 miles away?
So many questions to answer, so few answers...
WAS 40 miles big enough?
OR was it just a blanket "enter and get shot down" policy...?
Has anyone on here flown an FA18 or F111, is this even possible?
FYI: My question is purely theoretical; just for discussions sake.