Gonna quote about an intercept of an IN Tu 142 by 2 USN F14s, by Cmdr VC Pandey (rtd) near Gulf of Aden[a thread]
"Auto pilot on, clear skies, handed over the stick of
Auto pilot to Lt S Ghei and tried to take a bit of
rest.

"Lo!, suddenly out of blue, two American
fighters were on our wing tips. These aircraft were
fully loaded with various rockets and other
weapons. They photographed each and every
aerial protruding out of our aircraft. We remained
silent spectators.

Loss of an AN-32 under similar
condition and in the same area was fresh in my mind. Once the aircraft came so close to the tail gunner that his voice became panicky. I asked him to relax, not to move the guns and keep cool, so as not to be provocative.

Hats off to my flight
gunner, keeping cool in these life threatening
scenarios. We were cruising at about 0.7 Mach,
these American Fighters would give us company for about 30 min thereafter do a vertical climb
with after burners right ahead of our cockpit and disappear in th blue

The company of these
American fighters continued till 150 nautical miles
from Mumbai. After this show by American fighters,
I was convinced that a new era had begun in the
history of Indian Naval Aviation after induction of
these aircraft"
When I read this, I just had to share it

that was the amazing story of how our Tu 142s were intercepted by USN when being ferried back to India. It was a three plane formation, with 311 leading and 312 and 313 following.

This pic is only for rep

You know what I just realised, the story was about Tail No 311 and in pics we have 314 and 318 too. So we've had multiple interceptions but not a lot of stories