Funny story about speeding tickets.

Top this for a speeding ticket:

Two California Highway Patrol 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 fashion
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 destroyed.

Thank you for your concerns.

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good one.

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I don't really believe this, especially the part about the pilot averting the missile launch. I can't imagine they'd be flying an armed aircraft with the master arm switch on in a civilian area, and though the HARM will target a threat automatically, it would never launch automatically. But it's still a good story nonetheless.

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imagine that missle actually launched....hostile radar....

wah?... i actaully didnt get it....fmacraze

In the story, the police radar was picked up by a low flying military aircraft which is equipped with jammers and can carry missiles (called HARMs) that lock onto enemy ground radars. So in the response to the police complaint about the aircraft interfering with their radar gun, the military sent back a letter saying the cops were lucky the Hornet didn't mistakenly fire a HARM at their speed trap. Again, if this did happen (doubtful), I doubt the situation was reported truthfully. Can you imagine the mess that would be caused if a Hornet destroyed a police speed trap in America? It's not like there are a lot of enemy radars around...

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I don't really believe this, especially the part about the pilot averting the missile launch. I can't imagine they'd be flying an armed aircraft with the master arm switch on in a civilian area, and though the HARM will target a threat automatically, it would never launch automatically. But it's still a good story nonetheless.

pianist

Yeah, I was about to comment on the fact that the pilot always has to launch the missile himself, we can't just have computers firing off missiles at random.