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[korum]

Two British traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved
in an unusual incident, while checking for speeding motorists on the
A-1 Great North Road .

One of the officers (who are not named) 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 300mph. The
machine then stopped working and the officers were not able to reset it.

The radar had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado fighter jet over
the North Sea , which was engaged in a low-flying exercise over the
Border district.

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 automatically locked on to your 'hostile radar equipment' and sent
a jamming signal back to it. Furthermore, the Sidewinder Air-to-ground
missiles aboard the fully-armed aircraft had also locked on to the
target. Fortunately the Dutch pilot flying the Tornado responded to
the missile status alert intelligently and was able to override the
automatic protection system before the missile was launched'.


 

[Kev]

 

[Golfbuddy]

Two British traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved
in an unusual incident, while checking for speeding motorists on the
A-1 Great North Road .

One of the officers (who are not named) 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 300mph. The
machine then stopped working and the officers were not able to reset it.

The radar had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado fighter jet over
the North Sea , which was engaged in a low-flying exercise over the
Border district.

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 automatically locked on to your 'hostile radar equipment' and sent
a jamming signal back to it. Furthermore, the Sidewinder Air-to-ground
missiles aboard the fully-armed aircraft had also locked on to the
target. Fortunately the Dutch pilot flying the Tornado responded to
the missile status alert intelligently and was able to override the
automatic protection system before the missile was launched'.


 

 

[cem_devecioglu]

     

[STMO123]

That's brilliant!

[davlad22]

 

[bob.dent]

 

Quality!!

[Crazydad]

Now thats what i call an answer

Great stuff

[Martin_1962]

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

[Marks DTM Calib]

Lol....the best of it is if it had been a Typhoon (euro fighter) it wouldn't have been a problem because it has no fully functional weapons system yet.....

I always get this picture of a russian bomber flying into Uk air space and a typhoon pilot shaking his fist at them through the glass shouting bugger off.....

[cem_devecioglu]

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

 

[A380 Elite]

 

[Danny]

imagine driving down at 45 in a 30 and seeing the cops up ahead with their radar... you know you have no time to slam on so you just think "sod it, been caught now" then a missile come falling out of the sky and hits them

only joking

[smoothomega]

 

[amigov6]

  Think VOSA might want see my tacho charts!