Paphos People

Subj: British Traffic Police Vs the RAF

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 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, locked on to an RAF 'Tornado' jet fighter, 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
about the wrecked radar equipment 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 system's alert status, and was able to override the automated defence
system before the missile was launched and your hostile radar installation was
completely destroyed.
Have a good day.
Squadron Leader: Ralph P. Edwards. DFC

One up for the boys in Blue

Thats the RAF blues. not the police

Personally I would have allowed a bit of rAF pilot error on that one and blown the radar into Basra.

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