RAF vs Police

[Busdriver]

Found this in another forum, unfortunately without a source, but anyway great reply:

[darrenvox]

hasha thats such an interesting thing, good thing the pilot corrected it!!

[Mike]

i've heard about something similar happening in California....

how funny?!

imagine having a sidewinder coming at you?

[Oddball]

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.

[Busdriver]

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:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

[Oddball]

Think I've heard this one before saying it was a anti-radar missile not a Sidewinder.

[G-man]

You people fall for anything huh?

Tis NOT true:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/techno/radar.asp

[Mike]

but then I read that "snopes" is in trouble for not actually verifying everything they claim as well . . . .

[Kilrah]

Sometimes I don't mind a fake when the story is fun!

In another genre: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Caught.aspx

[YawningMan]

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...

[madpilot44]

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...  Must be just a dislike for the local PD here in Guatemala, now that I think about it  . Ignorance is bliss sometimes, I guess.