Edgy01

Top this for a speeding ticket...

Two British traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved
in an unusual incident while checking for speeding motorists on the
A1 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...

Thought this was sort of cute! Perhaps I can get their system installed in my 997...

rdstemler

Where can you get one of those missles???

RonCT

Great story to start the day

waiting for PDK

Unfortunately with the ground clearance issues, you can't mount the missiles under the car. Roof mounting destroys the car's handling (just ask the GT3 guys upset about their sunroofs). This is why James Bond's cars always have armaments hidden behind the headlights.

--Q

cascade

I'm surprised they didn't cite the pilot for missing a front plate....

gota911

Mini Sidewinder missiles are available through the Über Exclusive Options section. They are hidden under the small hinged flaps which normally hide the connections to secure the Roof Rack System. While they won't take out a city or even an entire building, they do a nice job on 'Vettes, F Cars, etc. I have this option on my 996. Below is a pic of the switches on the dash.

Dale Gribble

omg hahaha RAF For great victory....that's the best early morning rennlist story ever

SrfCity

My guess is the cops stupidly locked on to the fighter jet for kicks just to see the reading. Not exactly an act of brilliance.

Dale Gribble

lol...really tho....if u were a cop and one of those went zoomin by, you'd prolly wanna peg it too.

having said that...wonder what the space shuttle looks like on an AWACS radar

rdstemler

There was a Sidewinder Missle add-on on the GT3 forum on 08-08-2005.

The AWACS used to pickup ground targets on the Autobahn once they hit the speed threshold. Talk about an eye in the sky. Now they have dedicated systems that work regardles of the speed!

Edgy01

Funny you ask about AWACS. As a former AWACS flyer I used to watch all kinds of stuff with that radar. The most fun was watching the Concorde accelerating. Now that was some serious climb capability! We can also routinely pick up stuff on the autobahn and other areas unless we blank the processing on those low R-Dot (relative velocity) targets.

Dale Gribble

hahahah sweeet.

how many people do they have aboard an AWACS? and do they carry any weapons or countermeasures cause against a country that actually has an airforce..they just seem like big targets