Top this for a speeding ticket..

[Kiwi~SPARTA~]

Two British 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 (who are not named) 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 300mph. The

machine then stopped working and the officers were not able to reset it.

 

The radar had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado fighter jet over

the North Sea , which was engaged in a low-flying exercise over the

Border district.

 

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 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'.

[Sopris_EBDA]

Not sure if that is a true story or not, but a sidewinder is an air-to-air weapon used for close engagements of generally 15 miles or less and uses heat seeking inorder to seek out its targets, not radar. If the RAF uses the same anti-radiation missles as their US counterparts then it would be a HARM missle. The actual British version is called a ALARM missle, which is what is used on the Tornado's.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM-9_Sidewinder

 

Sorry to rain on the funny parade

[custard~SPARTA~]

Sopris we in the UK have a hate hate and wish to murder relationship with any mofo behind a speed trap.

 

The idea of a RAF jet locking on to a radar trap gun rocks my world too funny Kiwi.