I'm used to it...Originally Posted by walpurgis
I'm used to it...
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I would be very surprised if the British police force have ever owned a single item that is truly 'state of the art'.
Then surprised you will be Chris, there's much going on about which we are kept in the dark. Shortly after I discovered that GMC had these aircraft they appeared on the GMC website with a description of their mission profile. According to my source (sounding very cloak and dagger now) the description is not complete...
Anyway, that's enough of that
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Maybe it's not just them! Anyway, when the Government take a particular interest, money is thrown at situations. Ultimately, there's no accountability to the really deep stuff that goes on and the cost is very secondary. We'd never find out, nor would anybody else. Suspect what you might.
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What ? ... give 'em the churchill V?
remember getting the treatment in Newry when doing a spray job on a new car park surface. The army used to come over, hover, and take pictures of you and send them off for processing while a squaddie pointed a machine gun at you...quite unnerving tbh, and got a bit tedious after a while...maybe they thought the spray guns were something else.might add Newry was the worst place I was ever in, and was never at ease. how you get used to such is beyond me....
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The aircraft you mention Geoff is a Reims Cessna F406 registration G-UKAL. It's owned by the Met and operated jointly by them and Mi5 to carry out internal anti-terrorism missions. It's based at Farnborough and can roam pretty much over the entire UK.
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It'll all be digital and very well encrypted. I'd hazard a guess that you would need some SERIOUS kit to try hacking.
Just some of the modern digital modulation techniques are mind boggling
Some of the most sophisticated comms can hide information below the background noise level so you wouldn't even know something was there.
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Yes, that's kind of what I' m getting at.
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Always been a puzzle to me why the police get better weapons than the army. I suppose they don't need as many but I bet that's not the real reason.
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One other purpose for the police using planes and helicopters is looking for excessive heat signatures in houses and in particular roofspaces, which is a give away for cannabis growing.
In Ni we are used to low flying planes and helicopters - more recently small drones too - which are used in anti terrorism, crime and drugs detection. At the height of the troubles it was not unusual to see helicopters using very powerful searchlights, which in low cloud or foggy conditions looked very weird, a light but no obvious source.
On one occasion in the early 80s in very heavy fog we were woken up by our house vibrating and oscillating, as we stood outside to see what was going on - the fog mean't we could see nothing - the source of the drone, vibration became clear after awhile. It was a Chinook hovering directly above the house as the double wosh of the two sets of rotor blades eventually stood out from the droning vibration.
Its hard to impart just how odd this experience was before the source of the noise was identified as everything was vibrating and the low drone seemed to energise the entire fog bank above where we lived.
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