Clocked at 300MPH..?????

[DunkerD]

Not sure how true this is, but thought you might be interested.............

Two British traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved in
an unusual incident while checking for speeding motorists on the A1 Great
North Road. One of the officers used a hand-held radar device to check
the speed of a vehicle approaching over the crest of a hill, and was
surprised when the speed was recorded at over 300 mph. Their radar
suddenly stopped working and the officers were not able to reset it.

Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had
in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado fighter jet which was engaged in a
low-flying exercise over the Border district, approaching from the North
Sea.

Back at police headquarters the chief constable fired off a stiff
complaint to the RAF Liaison office.

Back came the reply in true laconic RAF style:

"Thank you for your message, which allows us to complete the file on
this incident. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer
in the Tornado had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked
onto, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming
signal back to it. Furthermore, an air-to-ground missile aboard the
fully-armed aircraft had also automatically locked onto your equipment.
Fortunately the pilot flying the Tornado recognized the situation for
what it was, quickly responded to the missile systems alert status, and
was able to override the automated defence system before the missile was
launched and your hostile radar installation was destroyed.

Good Day..."

[Steve T]

Most of it probably true - - - apart from the missile bit as they dont routinely fly about with live missiles fitted. Training missiles that give all the electronic responses to the pilot as detailed in the tale above, yes, but no live ones.
However, what they do fly around with on there little wings every day are self defence pods, which are live. If that had been allowed to "return to sender" an electronic jamming pulse, the unit in the feds hand may well have given off a few sparks and issued forth an electronic burning smell, never to work again, let alone not being able to be re-set.

Many years ago, over part of what was once West Germany, the local population lost their TV coverage because a similiar pod had "zapped" a local TV broadcasting arial.

'Aint toys great fun!

[russh]

Sorry to piddle on the fireworks so to speak, but unfortunately, not true




http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

[icenian]

self defence pods [which produce] an electronic jamming pulse, the unit in the feds hand may well have given off a few sparks and issued forth an electronic burning smell, never to work again

where can I get me one of those?

[AIRWOLF]

Obviously not true ,....... but it amused me.

[Pussyhorse]

Snopes is a great site.

[mal]

Yup, these RWB Africa Twins are really fast

[Tarka]

You don`t need the 'snopes' website to realise it`s a complete and utter fabrication......





C`mon.......TWO TRAFFIC POLICEMEN ON DUTY ??????






Get outta here !!!

[Lumiya]

Most of it probably true - - - apart from the missile bit as they dont routinely fly about with live missiles fitted. Training missiles that give all the electronic responses to the pilot as detailed in the tale above, yes, but no live ones.
However, what they do fly around with on there little wings every day are self defence pods, which are live. If that had been allowed to "return to sender" an electronic jamming pulse, the unit in the feds hand may well have given off a few sparks and issued forth an electronic burning smell, never to work again, let alone not being able to be re-set.

Many years ago, over part of what was once West Germany, the local population lost their TV coverage because a similiar pod had "zapped" a local TV broadcasting arial.

'Aint toys great fun!

YEP, Those little wide band scrams can put out one hell of an output, mind you the theory that the radar handheld unit had enough power to bounce back from an aircraft that far away registering a speed before an emmisions pod scrammed it is way to unbelievable, also begs the question do any police force in the UK still use hand held radar units, I thought they'd all been superceded with laser units???

As for live weapons, you actually think that the RAF would have bothered even giving an official reply to this????

Funny thing is talking about missiles Jen and I were just coming back from picking up another set of WR450 forks when we pass a massive Foden with a rapier unit on the back, not that much of a suprise except that on the back sat a stacked cluster of Rapiers, I thought that they'd be covered for transport, I know they had to be in my days in the RAF.

[Loic]

Funny thing is talking about missiles Jen and I were just coming back from picking up another set of WR450 forks when we pass a massive Foden with a rapier unit on the back, not that much of a suprise except that on the back sat a stacked cluster of Rapiers, I thought that they'd be covered for transport, I know they had to be in my days in the RAF.

They probably belonged to the dropshorts (artillery) who do their own thing!!

However I have seen a brand new digital camera (slr type) get its ccd fried when the auto focus laser happened to set off the missle jammer on an aircraft when we tried to photo it in some sandy place!

Loic