I am a just a rotorhead, but I was under the impression that the fighter jets could do a little more than just shooting things down.
Would they actually be able to see inside the small cockpit windows? If I am not mistaken that's what intercepting aircraft tried to do with the 1999 South Dakota Learjet before it crashed. Since they couldn't see inside back then (iced up windows?), do they have other equipment in the meantime (IR camera etc)?