This Jokes for you Madhat.

Two California Highway Patrol Officers were conducting speeding enforcement,
on I-15, just north of the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar.
One of the officers was using a hand held radar device to check speeding vehicles approaching 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 then turned off. Just then a deafening roar over the treetops 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 the location. Back at the CHIPs Headquarters the Patrol Captain fired off a complaint to the USMC Base Commander.

The reply came back in true USMC style:
Thank you for your letter. We can now 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 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 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 defense system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position. The pilot also suggests you cover your mouths when cussing at them, since the video systems on these jets are very 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.

Thank you for your concern.
Semper Fi.

 

haha got a kick outta that

 

That's an oldie but goody.

You know I work on the radar packages for the hornet now, and used to work on almost everything else in the cockpit years ago...(HUD, DDI, MPCD, RPYC...so on), and I'm about to go get some training on the FLIR.

There's another guy on here, I'll butcher his name, Akita Sumo, he designs stuff for the 18's, I won't say what, I don't know how he is about that.

Good stuff. The story may or may not be true, but very possible.

I can stand 25 yards away from the FLIR pod, and the guys can tell me how much change I have in my pockets, and what the dates are on the dimes.

Good thing I'm done having kids.... !!!

 

Now I know where you got the idea for the "flaming sticks of fire" in your avatar.

 

Great story but:

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

 

Yeah, Like he said in his very first line. This jokes for you Madhat.
But!!
I can only imagine how good the electronics are on those aircraft. Almost 20 years ago the Bradley I was in happened to have some really good thermals. You could always see the camo pattern on uniforms and one night on a range we could read a guys name tag at around 600-800 meters. What a hoot.
The target heaters weren't working. They went down range and told us the gens where running it was a problem with our sights. I said no, we can see you fine, and the Humvee fine it was the targets that were cold. The guy was ticked and flipped us off. I got back on the radio and told Sgt. ??? not to flip me off, that I outranked him. It really freaked him out that we could read his name. He believed us then that our sights where OK.
That is 25 year old technology now. I can only imagine what the capabilities are these days.
Sorry for jacking the thread.

 

Notice the post even says JOKE

 

HAHA, still a funny one.

Cory