Roost Air Lounge => Aviation related topics => Topic started by: Busdriver on October 14, 2011, 01:34:13 PM
Title: RAF vs Police
Post by: Busdriver on October 14, 2011, 01:34:13 PM
Found this in another forum, unfortunately without a source, but anyway great reply: (http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/5707/radark.jpg)
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: darrenvox on October 14, 2011, 04:06:20 PM
hasha thats such an interesting thing, good thing the pilot corrected it!!
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: Mike on October 14, 2011, 05:32:49 PM
i've heard about something similar happening in California....
how funny?!
imagine having a sidewinder coming at you?
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: Oddball on October 14, 2011, 09:14:06 PM
Dam my Nerdiness (is that a word? ??? ) but I've noticed some thing wrong.................Sidewinder air to ground missile? and it's a heat seeker not radar guided.
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: Busdriver on October 15, 2011, 10:03:16 AM
Dam my Nerdiness (is that a word? ??? ) but I've noticed some thing wrong.................Sidewinder air to ground missile? and it's a heat seeker not radar guided.
Yeah, there are some pieces that don't go together, I just asked Google about it, this came out:
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: Oddball on October 15, 2011, 10:42:40 AM
Think I've heard this one before saying it was a anti-radar missile not a Sidewinder.
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: G-man on October 15, 2011, 03:18:53 PM
You people fall for anything huh?
Tis NOT true:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: Mike on October 15, 2011, 04:01:51 PM
but then I read that "snopes" is in trouble for not actually verifying everything they claim as well . . . .
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: Kilrah on October 15, 2011, 04:02:16 PM
Sometimes I don't mind a fake when the story is fun!
In another genre: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Caught.aspx
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: YawningMan on October 18, 2011, 07:54:31 PM
I think EA-6Bs can do this, but I don't think they'd activate with a police scanner. I think they have to pretty much be lit up by a SAM site RADAR. The Prowler doesn't wait for the pilot to ask nicely if it can fire off a missile to shut down the SAM site. I never was a Prowler expert, but I got the impression the missiles the Prowler fires rides the target beam all the way down to its origin. If it's not actually a SAM site, then at least the SAMs lost their targeting beam. I'm pretty sure the computer calculates a trajectory in case the beam gets shut off before the missile finds its target.
I mean, I would hope if they're gonna do it, they'll do it right.
It's funny one of the stories would call out an F/A-18 as the plane that does it when the USMC has a plane specifically for this purpose...
Title: Re: RAF vs Police
Post by: madpilot44 on October 18, 2011, 09:47:34 PM
well, now the Prowler successor with the US Navy is the F/A-18G Growler, so I guess an F-18 could do it... and STANDARD and HARM missiles keep homing in on the location of the radar after it's been shut-down, I believe.
sure sucks to find out it's a fake though, I liked it from the moment I heard it, along with the one about the USAF pilot that drops fuel on a cop car to get even... ::thinking:: Must be just a dislike for the local PD here in Guatemala, now that I think about it ;D. Ignorance is bliss sometimes, I guess.
