Sukhoi SU-24 Extreme Low Pass

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whodat6484 Male, 30-39, Eastern US 2373 Posts	Monday, November 26, 2012 11:16:25 AM @ferdyfred - Now that's funny! They must have hit it just right to set off the targeting system. Most of those fighter/bombers, even older ones with updated avionics, can automatically lock on and monitor up to 20 targets at a time and in a fraction of a second. If he had live weapons on that plane, like a HARM all it would have taken is one flick of a switch and those cops would have been toast!

ferdyfred Male, 40-49, Europe 5961 Posts	Saturday, November 24, 2012 1:22:03 PM Remember a story about some traffic cops in England some years ago. Being bored on mobile speed camera duty, saw a RAF Tornado flying low so decided to aim there laser speed detector at it to see how fast it was going, Unfortunately the laser off the camera activated the automatic targeting weaponry of the Tornado, and it was only the quick thinking of the Pilot which stopped them from having a large missile take out their panda car. The pilot had to report the incident. The RAF gave the constabulary in question a proper bollocking

davymid Male, 30-39, Europe 11693 Posts	Friday, November 23, 2012 10:27:56 PM LJ and Listy, I like those stories. Good stuff. I'd pap my pants too.

Lord_Jereth Male, 40-49, Midwest US 562 Posts	Friday, November 23, 2012 2:22:00 PM @Listypoos, Had a similar experience when I was stationed in Germany before the end of the cold war. Our tac-site was 15 miles from the (then) communist Czec border. We were an anti-aircraft battalion, watching the borders for incursions. Well, our boys in the radar vans would get bored late at night and once in a while would start locking on targets over the border. Highly illegal and inflammatory, but they didn't really have much better to do. Once in a very great while, the Czecs would decide they`d have enough and scramble a couple of fighters over the border and back again in order to check our alert status and stop the boys in the vans from screwing with them. There is nothing quite like having a Russian made Foxbat pop the sound-barrier 50 feet over your head to tighten up your shot-group and change the color and consistency of your shorts. - LJ

5Cats Male, 40-49, Canada 17496 Posts	Friday, November 23, 2012 2:13:01 PM Cop: Do you know how fast you were going buddy? Pilot: 560 kilometers per hour? Cop: Exactly! Nice flying

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