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The California Highway Patrol Vs the USMC F/A-18 Hornet.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 432703:MV80OTI3NzVfODQyMjg3MF9EOTgyQ0VBMA==] The Handheld Radar vs F-18 is a hoax, I dont believe any police would have a hand-held "radar" it is a very obvious OH&S issue, dealing with microwave transmitters. Hand-held Laser guns are optical, and do not using microwave transmissions. Laser guns have to be aimed precisely at the object that you want to check, so it would be very obvious what they would be aiming at, plus it has to travelling towards you, or away to it can measure the doppler effect. Therefore, the plane's radar jammer wont detect or jam a hand-held optical laser. Besides, a newspaper in England ran the same story, just changing the names/places. So, Yes, it is a funny story. [/quote]
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Two California HighwayPatrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement on I-15, North of MCAS Miramar. One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching near the crest of a hill.
The officers were suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour. The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and turned off.
Just then a deafening roar over the treetops revealed that the radar had in fact locked onto a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low flying exercise near the location.
Back at the CHP Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander.
Back came a reply in true USMC style:
Thank you for the message, which allows us to complete the file on this incident. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet 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 Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defense system before the missile was launched and your hostile radar was destroyed.
Thank you for your concerns.
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(Did this really happen? I dont know...I got this in an email and thought it was funny.)
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