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In the movie 'The Hunt for Red October', why did the P-3 Orion launch a torpedo at the Russian sub when they weren't at war?

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In the movie 'The Hunt for Red October', why did the P-3 Orion launch a torpedo at the Russian sub when they weren't at war?
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The plane that launched the torpedo wasn't a P-3 it was a TU-95 bear F anti submarine plane and said so in the movie. This plane fired it's torpedo at the red october to prevent it from defecting to the US. Watch it again and pay attention to the subtitles and the light shall shine upon your befuddled brain.
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It was a Soviet Tu-95 that lauched the torpedo. It was to prevent Red October (the Soviet missle sub) from defecting.
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Artistic license. It's fiction.
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It is fiction.
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