Nevertheless, it's rather more restrained than the behaviour of a certain idiot 35 Sqn Vulcan captain who decided to self-authorise to 'Locate and identify
enemy shipping' back in the late '70s, when off to take some photos of a Russian warship (I think it was a Krivak)....
His singlehanded declaration of war against the Sovietski Soyuz was solved by ripping up the original auth sheets, re-writing them after he landed, plus a no coffee, no biscuits debrief with the grown-ups after they'd seen the overflight photos....
