During Peace time having an engament like that can not be taught in Top Gun and it is easy to comment after the fact, but when intenstions are not known and you have to do everything to avoid any conflict, but do not know if they will leave at the last second or fire, doubt if anyone would do much better. If it was…

Stupid!, first accuracy cannot be maintained, second having to pull that off if the bad guy has a gun can get the officer killed. They have tazers for non lethal

Kind of hard to put a radar package in that nose cone, plus too narrow, could be a ground decoy