We have just seen 2 British military helicopters flying over in England and had an odd occurence. Tried to film them with my phone to show my 10yo son (who is really into military stuff). The phone recorded video and voice clearly up until I managed to get the camera focussed on each aircraft in turn. Then the screen and audio goes fuzzy and blank. EDIT - on further checking the sound is audible but the image is blank. At this point I was pointing the phone up at the aircraft in open air - no building or car in the way.
Audio and video resumes when I moved the camera away from the craft to switch the camera off. Any military pedes know if it could be some sort of jamming signal or countermeasures? If so is it odd that this would be deployed on a sunny day in a non hostile area? There’s been a lot of aircraft flying about for the last couple of weeks (chinooks and lynx and sea kings) and have not had any probs filming them before... 🤔 Almond status - ACTIVATED
Not sure, have been looking up British military helicopters and it looked like a Lynx HM8.. it’s really odd cos we’ve seen helos flying a fair bit of the years cos there is a small RAF site not too far away from where we live and have filmed them before with no probs.
Hi, were they grey or green or too far away? I'm guessing they had wheels/under carriage and not skids?
Grey with wheels. Just looking at pics of Apache as I thought they were that type at first. You can hear that on audio. OH thinks not. Looking at diff helo pics though they look more like Lynx but I might be wrong.
Yeah they are Navy Lynx Super - cats, never heard anything fitted that can disrupt filming tho, and I used to fly for the Army.
PS But the super yacht owned by Abramovich does have a system where lasers targets the lenses of cameras and make them non functional to record, I doubt the Navy went to that expense on a Lynx tho!
It’s really weird.