When the X-Band jammer was first fitted it was 'brill' against the Firebar (they said), the one that came out of the Lake in Berlin, but on the wrong freq for the Lightning.
It was arranged that we would do FA against the F4Es which I think were MRCA but primarily muds. This of course well before other later attempts at MRCA.
Quick squirt from F4, roll the mighty V, pull hard, turn, climb and 'relax'. No sweat.
Unfortunately, unlike the Lightning the F4 carried fuel, bags of it.
After 2 or 3 orbits we lost him. Grins all round. Just then we heard "FOX 1" . He said afterwards they got fed up in the turning fight, bugged out to 20 miles and returned, burners in, supersonic, and splashed us before we even knew they were there.