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This is so totally a urban legend... And the guy who invented it was not even well documented :

1/ the radars used to check road speed are very different from the detection and ranging radars aboard warplanes.
2/ the only thing that could make a Early Warning System aboard a fighter-bomber plane react is a Target Acquisition radar, which directs all its energy on one single target, and do not sweep at all : again, this is very different from both a detection radar and a road speed check radar.
3/ the Sidewinder is a short ranged, very light and agile, infrared guided fire-and-forget AIR-TO-AIR missile... It would be absolutely useless against a ground target, although if it exploded near enough, the poor constable would most certainly die...
4/ there is no such thing as "automated protection system" that would fire deadly weapons without the pilot's guidance. Thanks to whoever decided this, we've seen enough of doomsday scenarii in movies where the computers wage war on the poor humans...

Funny story, and even better correction, mordret. :thumbsup:

good thing this is tilted humor...

Phil, you should know better. ALL jokes must be correct in terminology and facts to be funny! Jesus man, didn't you get the memo? I want to see all your jokes cited (with researched sources) and with correct terminology at ALL times or it's off to old fogies home, I mean retirement community, with you!

i apologize from my bottom to my heart...

sheesh...

One more incorrect joke like that Phil, and the Sidewinders are coming for YOU! :)

Yup! And this is one of those great situations where the nitpicks are as good as the joke.