The two transits of the straits made the task group led by HMS "Victorious", a month apart that followed were both also described as routine passage only the second was even notified with a note from the British embassy, RN attaché to the Indonesian Navy, which was a concession the track would be through Lombok not Djakarta and the major Indonesian military bases. During the transit of the straits, the guns were fully manned with the crews closed up; if the cruiser had been "buzzed" by Indonesia MiGs or patrol craft, the captain was instructed to take "precautionary measures" and not train or elevate the guns or test fire them again during the deployment, a "diplomatic artifact" given a scenario of undetectable possible threat of surprise long-range air-launched Kangaroo cruise missile attack from Indonesia bombers and full ABC protection at X Ray state 9 as was the task force led by aircraft carrier on 19 September 1964, two County-class guided missile destroyers , (which replaced the cruiser ) and the anti-submarine frigates and . "Victorious"s assertion of the right of innocent passage by a carrier with Blackburn Buccaneer and de Havilland Sea Vixen aircraft painted in grey anti flash paint, and believed to be nuclear-armed was viewed as one of the most dangerous moments of the Cold War, with mass panic in Java, but proved effective in establishing rights for naval passage and that Indonesia's assertion was unlikely to be outright war to stop Malaysian independence.