PoliceRadar Gun locks onto RAF tornado ?
09 June 2008, 02:05 PM
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Total fiction, sorry.
Can't see this particular one at the moment (filter at work) but it normally mentions a Sidewinder missile (that's air to air) and the aircraft ranges from an RAF, Dutch or Luftwaffe Tornado (the Dutch don't operate it, afaik) to F16s, A10s and just about anything else. Police force ranges from Strathclyde down to Norfolk.
On a technical basis, even if the police radar was the right frequency and had an electronic signature that matched a known threat radar, we don't use an automated defence system like that...
SB
Can't see this particular one at the moment (filter at work) but it normally mentions a Sidewinder missile (that's air to air) and the aircraft ranges from an RAF, Dutch or Luftwaffe Tornado (the Dutch don't operate it, afaik) to F16s, A10s and just about anything else. Police force ranges from Strathclyde down to Norfolk.
On a technical basis, even if the police radar was the right frequency and had an electronic signature that matched a known threat radar, we don't use an automated defence system like that...
SB
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09 June 2008, 02:19 PM
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As if it were needed, here is a link to snopes about the myth.
I've submitted a myth request to the mythbusters site, but doubt they'd do it, simply as it's fairly easily dismissed from a technical perspective, but I'd not put it past Adam and Jamie to be able to take a normal radar gun and frankenstein it to be a little more powerful
I've submitted a myth request to the mythbusters site, but doubt they'd do it, simply as it's fairly easily dismissed from a technical perspective, but I'd not put it past Adam and Jamie to be able to take a normal radar gun and frankenstein it to be a little more powerful
09 June 2008, 03:26 PM
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Sidewinders are air-to-air missiles, not air-to-ground. Also there is no 'automatic protection system' which fires off missiles when radar is detected that's just complete tosh !!
09 June 2008, 04:08 PM
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This item did the rounds on SN a few weeks ago - pops up with a certain regularity - and false.
There are a few variations on this one, including the same story about a Tornado in Wales and a Sea Harrier, same story different location/aircraft.
Gareth
There are a few variations on this one, including the same story about a Tornado in Wales and a Sea Harrier, same story different location/aircraft.
Gareth
09 June 2008, 06:13 PM
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A few years ago I heard about this lad who was tear arsing at a silly speed on a local road. He was doing about eighty miles an hour! Unfortunately the police radar gun clocked a bloke on the footpath, on the other side of the bike, wheeling his fridge at two miles an hour. The lad got clean away with his indiscretion. This is fact and not fiction.
17 June 2008, 10:14 PM
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The aircraft story is fact. To an extent.
The original stort involved a Tornado (if I remember correctly) and it had been flying over the North Sea training area when approaching land it had been locked onto by a Police Radar and jammed.
The speed gun had a radar signature similiar to a handheld SAM.
The original stort involved a Tornado (if I remember correctly) and it had been flying over the North Sea training area when approaching land it had been locked onto by a Police Radar and jammed.
The speed gun had a radar signature similiar to a handheld SAM.
17 June 2008, 11:10 PM
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The aircraft story is fact. To an extent.
The original stort involved a Tornado (if I remember correctly) and it had been flying over the North Sea training area when approaching land it had been locked onto by a Police Radar and jammed.
The speed gun had a radar signature similiar to a handheld SAM.
The original stort involved a Tornado (if I remember correctly) and it had been flying over the North Sea training area when approaching land it had been locked onto by a Police Radar and jammed.
The speed gun had a radar signature similiar to a handheld SAM.
For some reason, I find that hard to believe....
17 June 2008, 11:31 PM
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So a directional short wave radar gun.. with a range of probably no more than a mile, locked onto a Tornado flying over the North Sea Ranges at speeds probably in excess of 600 Knots... where was the rozzer??.. out to sea in a rubber dinghy? On the beach?? and more to the point... as these things are directional...wtf was the copper doing pointing it up in the sky and seawards?
For some reason, I find that hard to believe....
For some reason, I find that hard to believe....
18 June 2008, 12:33 PM
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The radar jammer could well have locked on to the speed gun and even jammed it. I think the missile lock was "egging it" a bit but I must confess that I would have been tempted to tell the coppers the same story if I had been deputed to reply to them!
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