s. Posted on 10/03/2021 6:25:41 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
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The officer was using a handheld radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching the town of Kingsville and was suddenly surprised when the radar gun began reading 300 miles per hour and climbing.
The officer attempted to reset the radar gun, but it would not reset and then… It suddenly went dead. Immediately a deafening roar over the Mesquite treetops on Hwy 77 revealed that the radar had in fact locked on to a USMC F/A-18 Hornet which was engaged in a low-flying exercise near its Naval Air home base location in Kingsville.
Actual pictures of a F-16 caught by a Highway Patrolman
Back at the Texas Highway Patrol Headquarters in Corpus Christi, the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the US Naval Base Commander in Kingsville for shutting down his officer’s equipment.
The reply came back in true USMC style:
“Thank you for your letter…. You may be interested to know that the tactical computer in the Hornet had detected the presence of, and subsequently locked on to, your hostile radar equipment and automatically sent a jamming signal back to it, which is why it shut down. Furthermore, an Air-to-Ground missile aboard the fully-armed aircraft had also automatically locked on to your equipment’s location.
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 defence system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position on the side of Hwy 77, south of Kingsville.
The pilot suggests your officer covers his mouth when cursing since the video systems on these jets are extremely high-tech.
Sergeant Johnson, the officer holding the radar gun, should get his dentist to check his left rear molar. It appears the filling is loose. Also, the snap is broken on his holster.”
I was doing joint training with the German military in Ulm Germany and was amazed watching the Luftwaffe Tornados flying below power transmission lines.
USMC F/A-18 Hornet
Actual pictures of a F-16
That is a stock photo, not from this incident.
I heard the part about the burned-out radar gun and the anti-radiation missile lock-on back in the 1980s in England, but then/there it was a Harrier or Tornado vs one of the local constabularies.
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 defence system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position on the side of Hwy 77, south of Kingsville.
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Ah no. The writer is just making it up.
OoooRah!
Absolute BS.
After hearing about Biden and his bullshit every day, this was a good laugh for me.
Lighten up!
Top pic, at that angle of descent and that altitude, if the pic were real, that aircraft would likely impact the ground a second later.
261kt is 300mph
I’m thinkin the Patrolman’s equipment needs calibrating.
That old wives tale has been going around since we switched from VASCAR to radar in the 70’s There are so many wrong things about the story it hurts to delineate. Suffice, the radar gun will not jam, the Hornet quit flying in 2019. And on and on.
I was doing some work at an air base and they flew two A-10’s out of there. The first morning I was parked on a on-used taxiway.
I saw the A-10’s aways off pointing in my direction and then they taxied off on another runway. Shortly afterwards a guy drove over and told me not to be on the taxiway before 10 am - park on the infield. The A-10’s had a target at the end of my taxiway to test their sights. “The guns are loaded, of course they aren’t armed then, but....”
I guess they would take off and spend hours at a firing range shooting at stuff and practicing.
One day I was standing on top of the van taking pictures of the site. One A-10 landed, and the other (right behind him) came right over my truck at low altitude. I just laughed and thought - “Well, I’m ‘dead’!”
IMPATT diodes have been common knowledge among heavy-footed electrical engineers for a long time.
The first photo is a bad photoshop, the second is of a F/A-18F which the Marine Corps never flew, that’s Navy. The bottom photo is of an F-16. Also, most military aircraft don’t have to slow to 250 kts below 10,000’, they have a waiver that doesn’t apply to civilian aircraft which allows up to 300 kts below 10,000’.
“MOA’s are UnControlled Airspace, the FAA Has Authority or Control and there are No Limits operating in the MOA”
Military Operations Areas are controlled airspace. They are used by the FAA to separate military and instrument flight rules traffic. Instrument flight rules traffic have the same limitations in MOAs as they do in other airspace, such as speed and vertical separation.
quid est veritas?
“Can’t see the forest for the trees” focus too much on the detail and miss the big picture
Qui totum vult, totum perdit.
– He who wants everything loses everything.
Especially if they want to softly land and come to a gentle stop.
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