Traffic police vs RAF story from dogbury

[Mike B]

An ex seargent friend of mine was regailing a story from Dogbury (dogsbody?!?) the internal police forces magazine. Made me laugh and thought it was worth re-telling. Source is prone to exageration, and I have not read original.. but sounds plausible;

 

 

Apparently a traffic car was hiding in a dip on one of the many undulating northumbrian roads off the pennines. They were pointing their radar gun up the hill catching speeding motorists as the came over the brow.

 

5-6 endorsements in, the radar gun suddenly registered 350+ mph, before going haywire and crashing. few seconds later and a Tornado GR1 comes hammering over the hill, just off the deck.

 

Coppers duck and and then try to reset the gun... it won't work, so they go home. Telling the chief, he phones the RAF to complain as they feel aggrieved that their gun is not working.

 

The RAF say "so that's what it was"..... pilot had registered a "lock on" and his automated defense systems had sent a pulse back which destroyed the gun.

 

The copper said that they want to know how to reset the gun, but the RAF told them, "sorry that's classified" and told them to scurry off back to the mfrs..

 

when he complained further the RAF chap explained that the planes defense system had automatically targeted him, locked on, and if the pilot had not interceeded the plane would have shot a defensive missile at the lads, making a bit of a mess.... He advised them to not point the gun towards the sky anymore:d

[Lewis]

Two 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 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..."

[Lewis]

Urban legends 101 : http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

[Mike B]

there you go... I did say he was prone to exaggeration...

 

just goes to show; never believe a policeman

[Lewis]

To be honest, if they are anything like our internal magazines, it's a load of stuff we make up down the pub on the last friday of the month

[Class One]

Yeah, heard that one years ago whilst we were parked up at Lakenheath at the end of the runway on the perimieter road .....

[supra steveo]

me too , what a load of kiplingus et buttox (cake & arse)

[Gaz Walker]

It would be funny if it was true

[Havard]

It would be funny if it was true

 

Even better if the Tornado would have fired!!

[SupraStar 3000]

AFAIK jets don't fire defensive missiles without the pilot pressing the fire button,..especially not RAF types.

 

Good story tho

[neil tt]

I still enjoyed it:d

[MrRalphMan]

AFAIK jets don't fire defensive missiles without the pilot pressing the fire button,..especially not RAF types.

 

Good story tho

 

Only the Yanks do that don't they...

 

Look something... ha ha ha Fire...

[dangerous brain]

Almost as good as the two pilots from either wittering or middle wallop depending on where you hear the story that were stopped speeding at night with no lights on. They were both wearing NVG goggles apparently. To be fair though some of the candid responses from the RAF with regards to complaints do make me chuckle. I had some geezer phone me up in the guard room shouting his head off at me. Apparently the station commander had personally assured him there would be no more unnecessary low flying over his house anymore. He had to shout as it sounded like there was a chinook landing on his house