OT: Some humour from the RAF

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crw59 18 years ago

Two traffic patrol officers from North Berwick (E. Lothian, Scotland) were involved in an unusual incident while checking for speeding motorists on the A-1 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 defense system before the missile was launched and your hostile radar installation was destroyed.Good Day... Craig Highline CO KLR Rider A2/A13/A19

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Gernot Hassenpflug 18 years ago

old urban legend :-) In the rec.military.aviation groups this regularly gets taken apart for a variety of reasons, for everything from "fully-armed" aircraft on exercises over civilian areas, to "automatic" systems being switched on, to the silliness of messing with chief constables who were quite capable of making large tracts of country uninhabitable by RAF folks. But it's a good story :-)

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Enzo Matrix 18 years ago

Gernot Hassenpflug wrote

And *have* done, on a number of occasions. :-(

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tomcervo 18 years ago

Maybe we can gin up a story about PC's trying to arrest a lighthouse or Tornados and a US aircraft carrier disputing the right of way.

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AMPSOne 18 years ago

I know of only one case where a guy in Massachusetts got a ticket from the local cops and then got even. He was the instructor on a system called the AN/GLQ-3 which was a tactical jammer. Brought it out near the fence on Fort Devens where he could see the radar, picked a harmonic frequency to the type of radar, and fed it about 2500 watts at a range of less than 150 meters. Fried every bit of the electronics in the car, the radar and the radio. Local cop had no idea what hit him. Paybacks can be a b*tch!

Also there have been recorded instances when EA-6B Prowlers would turn on the jammers at the wrong time and blank out part of the Eastern Seaboard radars and TV stations...

Cookie Sewell

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Jules 18 years ago

I know of only one case where a guy in Massachusetts got a ticket from the local cops and then got even. He was the instructor on a system called the AN/GLQ-3 which was a tactical jammer. Brought it out near the fence on Fort Devens where he could see the radar, picked a harmonic frequency to the type of radar, and fed it about 2500 watts at a range of less than 150 meters. Fried every bit of the electronics in the car, the radar and the radio. Local cop had no idea what hit him. Paybacks can be a b*tch!

Also there have been recorded instances when EA-6B Prowlers would turn on the jammers at the wrong time and blank out part of the Eastern Seaboard radars and TV stations...

Cookie Sewell

so people missed episodes of COPS and 24? haaaaaaa

give me a prowler anyday...f*ck im a limey, but i love that plane, and the Brit Brick....

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