stolen from another website but i thought it was funny


Two British traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved in an unusual incident while checking for speeding motorists on the A1Great 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 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 were launched and your hostile radar installation was destroyed.

 

 

old one... but still funny

 

Quality reply hahaha

 

urban myth that loadsa muggy folk believe, but its funny still

 

sounds about the same as the 2 german coppers sat at night clocking random speed figures on thier radar on deserted autobahn....... happened a few nights in a row, so they set up a road block further down, turns out it was 2 tornado pilots in a porche using night vision goggles with headlights off

Load of Bollox IMHO but you hear it bandied round the crewroom occasionally from the old farts who were out in Germany when we had bases there

 

 

There was 2 Pilots from Wittering that went for a jolly down the A1 and had no lights off with headgear on..Got caught driving with no lights and a tad over the limit...

 

Charlie Chalk
RAF MP tried pointing the speed gun at a Tornado down the Falklands. Needless to say it was one of the shortest ever Falklands tours as he was on the next kite home.

Oh and fuck doing any sort of proper speed with NVG's on, you have depth perception at all. You have to guess how far things are away due to there size.

 

I heard of that when I was down there, was in the brief I think.. Didn't the Tornado lock onto him

 

Dont know mate. All i know is it had happened just before i got down there in 2004.

 

Raf Coppers..... what more can you say ..... Nash, you tried aircraft-spec NVG's? they are fucking awsome much better than the pish we get for the guns and night goggs for patrols etc

 

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Fair point mate didnt think about that.

I have driven a Landy with the normal pish on and it wasnt fun at all.

What you up to now anyway Will?

 

Last pair of NVG's I borrowed couldn't see through windows. They just came up as solid black.

are they any better now??

 

I hope so seeing as they fly aircraft with them on

Nash I'm at Lyneham mate, ploddin along

 

How could a Tornado lock onto a radar speed gun? And why? It all urban myths.

 

What do you think missile systems use to lock onto an aircraft? ... the avionics in military aircraft are unbelivable mate, seriously.... It will tell the pilot what the frequency is, the strength of the signal and decide if it's hostile or not, and automatically target it..... seriously

 

Was down last week picking a shitty Bedford up.

 

Trust me they know when its on them. Passenger Pilots dont like the tracking tone very much either............. or so i am told

 

The Tornado picked it up..... I dont mean locked, armed and shot