recently seen in a newspaper:
Two british traffic police officers from north Berwick, east of Edinburgh, were involved in an unusual incident while checking speeding motorists on the A1 Great North Road.
One of the nameless officers, used a handheld radar device to check the speed of a vehicle aproaching the crest of a hill, but was surprised when the speed was recorded at over 300mph. the machine then stopped, and the police were unable to reset it.
The radar device had in fact locked on to a nato tornado fighter jet which was engaged in a low-flying excercise over the boarders district.
Back at police headquarters, the chief constable fire off a stiff complaint to the RAF Liaison office.
Back came the reply in true laconic RAF style.
"Thank you for your messages, 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."
Just makes you think "who was in the right"?
Two british traffic police officers from north Berwick, east of Edinburgh, were involved in an unusual incident while checking speeding motorists on the A1 Great North Road.
One of the nameless officers, used a handheld radar device to check the speed of a vehicle aproaching the crest of a hill, but was surprised when the speed was recorded at over 300mph. the machine then stopped, and the police were unable to reset it.
The radar device had in fact locked on to a nato tornado fighter jet which was engaged in a low-flying excercise over the boarders district.
Back at police headquarters, the chief constable fire off a stiff complaint to the RAF Liaison office.
Back came the reply in true laconic RAF style.
"Thank you for your messages, 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."
Just makes you think "who was in the right"?
LOL
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