Beg to differ. I was called out to take part in a fierce battle going on in Aden one night. Flares and tracer rounds all over the place, lots of flashes and bangs.
We were stood down at the last minute as it became apparent the RAF Regt were involved. They had been tasked with guarding some of the Army camps as the infantry were very much stretched at the time (remember Mad Mitch? It was around that time).
A car coming in from the desert had failed to stop at a check point and one of the occupants opened fire on the soldiers there. The Lancashire Regt jumped into a Land Rover and set off in hot pursuit, firing their GPMG as they went. As they passed the area adjacent to one of the Army camps, the RAF Regt guard were awoken by the noise and joined in. Firing on the Lancashire Regt boys! Naturally, the Lancs were having none of that and so shared their firing between the fleeing dizzies and the second source of incoming fire. They didn't yet know who was firing at them but they weren't best pleased so gave them some back. They eventually caught up with the fleeing Mercedes at a hospital at the rear of our camp where they found something like a couple dead in the car, one trying to get into the hospital and one already in the hospital. It was interesting to hear the reports on the radio and the Lancs boys asking for guidance re the one already inside and allegedly on his way to the operating theatre. The reply was to the effect of "go in and get him". So they did. The Mercedes was a sight with doors shot off and enough bodywork damage for it to be a total write off!
At the end of the evening, it was reckoned that the dizzies had fired something like a couple of dozen rounds and our side had fired thousands, including those exchanged between the Lancashire Regt and the RAF Regt. And nobody on our 2 sides was killed! There was a lot of shouting at the RAF Regt following that.