Good thing all my battleships were out of range.
Erinamese fighter jets pull up alongside the escorts and fire electromagnetically-charged bolts into the hull of the escorts and evacuation plane. They are guided down to an Erinamese Aircraft carrier.
The Pilots will be released, but the POWs will be kept aboard until the war is over.
Now hang the hell on just a second, we are in the year 2000.
Where do you get electromagnetic pulse "bolts" in the year 2000.
New Manhattan soldiers, ceased fire or not, open fire on the Falistilian troops, a combination of .50 calibre ammunition and 7.62 variants consuming them, as well as small RPG's on heavily armed ground units.