Send the Taliban some speed guns
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Send the Taliban some speed guns
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A police traffic patrol were trying out a new radar gun on the A1 in the Scottish borders in an attempt to catch speeding drivers, when they suddenly experienced technical problems with their equipment. As opposed to readings one would normally expect for motorway traffic, the radar gun gave readings of over 300mph, and then refused to work at all. The malfunctioning gun was reset, and nothing more was thought about the matter. That is, until the police were contacted two days later by the Ministry of Defense, who asked if anyone had been using radar equipment in the area two days previously. When the police revealed that they had, a MoD spokesman in turn revealed that the high speeds the police radar gun had picked up was probably the RAF Tornado on manoeuvres in the area, which had not only locked onto the unidentified radar signal and jammed it, but had also armed two anti-radar missiles ready to fire down the beam to destroy the source of the signal. (14 November 2001, AM)
(I seem to remember reading this before, probably in here but couldn’t resist it)
A police traffic patrol were trying out a new radar gun on the A1 in the Scottish borders in an attempt to catch speeding drivers, when they suddenly experienced technical problems with their equipment. As opposed to readings one would normally expect for motorway traffic, the radar gun gave readings of over 300mph, and then refused to work at all. The malfunctioning gun was reset, and nothing more was thought about the matter. That is, until the police were contacted two days later by the Ministry of Defense, who asked if anyone had been using radar equipment in the area two days previously. When the police revealed that they had, a MoD spokesman in turn revealed that the high speeds the police radar gun had picked up was probably the RAF Tornado on manoeuvres in the area, which had not only locked onto the unidentified radar signal and jammed it, but had also armed two anti-radar missiles ready to fire down the beam to destroy the source of the signal. (14 November 2001, AM)
(I seem to remember reading this before, probably in here but couldn’t resist it)
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This was posted some time ago and someone who seemed to know a lot more about these things than I do discounted it with the appropriate technical info as Bo887ocks
Still, it is a good yarn
Still, it is a good yarn
