The story I always remember about the above Jag engagement was reference a GAF F-104.
When all the calls were being made on 243.00 and the word was spreading, the F-104 pilot called ATC on climb-out from low-level aborting his planned “red air” mission and requested routing back to base. When base asked ATC for a reason for his early recovery he replied, “because the British are playing hard rules today”.