Green Lasers

[spheroid]

BBC NEWS | Technology | Police fight back on laser threat (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7990013.stm)


I've been Lasered a couple of times - we managed to get an exact Grid of one bloke and his laser - passed it on to ATC who passed it onto the cops and they caught the fella red (green) handed....

Anyone else been lasered...?

[timex]

Have a red through this, a lot of us have been lasered.


http://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/320314-l-ser-searchlight-attacks-aircraft-incl-prison-sentences-offenders.html?highlight=lasers

[Selfloading]

It would be nice if you guys could laser back, might make these "hard of thinking" morons reconsider :*

[Pontius Navigator]

It would be nice if you guys could laser back, might make these "hard of thinking" morons reconsider :*

Oh we can, we can. Only thing is, they would not see it, indeed they may not see anything again, ever.:}

[LuckyBreak]

The thought crossed my mind too when I got 'lasered'. ;)

"I see your green LASER and raise you an LRMTS!" We weren't quick enough with the switchology though.......:(

[cornish-stormrider]

you use laser targeting don't you, send some form of beam rider weapon back at the scrote and say the jet did it in automatic mode.....

Select target mode - home on CHAV.

Fire

[Lord Elpus]

Been lasered many times by those lovely locals in the Middle East. Would love to give them some high powered invisable laser back!:E

[racedo]

Reminds me of this whether true or not I don't know.. Perhaps they should have used the missile :)

rom the Berwickshire Gazette:

"Two traffic patrol officers from North Berwick were involved in an incident whilst checking for speeding motorists on the A1 road last May. They were using a hand-held radar device to trap speeding motorists on the Edinburgh to London trunk road. One of the unnamed officers used the device to check the speed of an approaching vehicle, and was surprised to find that his target had registered a speed in excess of 300 miles per hour. The £8,000 radar then seized up and could not be reset by the bemused policemen. The radar had in fact latched on to a NATO Tornado aircraft in the North Sea, which was taking part in a simulated low-flying exercise over the Borders and Southern Scotland.

Following a complaint by the Chief Constable of the Lothian & Borders Police force to the RAF liaison office, it was revealed that the officers had had a lucky escape. The tactical computer on board the aircraft not only detected and jammed the "hostile" radar equipment, but had automatically armed an air-to-ground missile ready to neutralise the perceived threat. Luckily the Dutch pilot was alerted to the missile status and was able to override the automatic protection system before the missile launched.

Lothian & Border Police Department have declined to comment, although it is understood that officers will be advised to point their radar guns inland in future."

[Rigger1]

Is it true ....... :hmm:

[TheWizard]

Wow, a Dutch Tornado! They kept that one quiet!!:}

[spheroid]

It doesn't say Dutch Tornado. It was a Dutch pilot in a German Tornado.

[Selfloading]

Oh we can, we can. Only thing is, they would not see it, indeed they may not see anything again, ever.:}

Yep that's the kind of thing I was thinking off :}

Anyway everyone knows you guys have got a top secret death ray you could use :oh:

[TEEEJ]

snopes.com: Police Radar Prompts Missile (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp)

http://www.pprune.org/military-aircrew/275396-tornado-zapped-doing-673mph-police.html

TJ

[CirrusF]

A while back an ALAT (French equivalent to AAC) EC665 Tiger returning from a live-firing exercise took a couple of rounds from some drunken sanglier (wild boar) hunter on final approach to Valence, so they turned around, flew a search pattern, identified his position, released the remainder of their payload in his general vicinity, then hovered a few metres from his quivering face until the Gendarmes arrived. I suspect that might make the papers if you tried that in the UK...

[TheWizard]

It doesn't say Dutch Tornado. It was a Dutch pilot in a German Tornado.

Fair enough but it doesn't say it is German either:hmm:

[Dak Mechanic]

First time I heard it[1], it was a Harrier in Wales...

The other story around at the time was GATSO's
being toasted by ECM kit.

Nice if it were true!

JC

[1] over 10 years ago, same time as the story about the RAF serviceman
driving a sports car at high speed with no lights on the A1 at night using NVGs (which is less unbelievable).

[bythebackdoor]

Ah, when I heard that one it was a chinook pilot on the M3, driving a BMW, on NVG's:confused: