RAF jet

[Fish Man]

Top this for a speeding ticket. . . .

Two traffic police officers on patrol near 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 gun then suddenly stopped working, and the officers were

not able to reset it.

Just then a deafening roar over the tree-tops revealed that the radar

had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado figh ter jet which was engaged

in a low-flying exercise over the Scottish/En glish borders,

approaching them 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 jet in question, had detected the presence of (and

subsequently locked onto) your hostile radar equipment, and had

automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which was why it

stopped working"

"Furthermore, an air-to-ground missile aboard the fully-armed

aircraft, had also 'automatically' locked onto your equipment" >

"Fortunately the pilot flying the Tornado recognised the situation for

what it was , and quickly responded to the missile systems alert

status, managing to override the automated defence system, before the

missile was launched and your hostile radar installation was

destroyed"

"Good Day" . . .

[Raul]

;D

[Dan:]

Funny, but why would they fly an armed jet over England? Doesn't seem like something the RAF would do

[Fish Man]

Funny, but why would they fly an armed jet over England? Doesn't seem like something the RAF would do

maybe they got the word that WWII ended a little bit later than the rest of us

[frogtog]

Sound like a good day at work to me.