Javelins in Zambia
I was working in Aden (non-military) in the mid 60s at the time of Rhodesia's UDI. The story was that 111 Sqdn (Hunters) were ordered to Zambia for the military 'confrontation' then expected. The Hunters, as ground attack a/c and 111 as experienced in the art (Radfan etc) were the right choice. However a number of 111 pilots had left to fly the Rhodesian Hunters. I understood that many among 111's remaining pilots intimated their extreme reluctance to go on the new assignment. Hence (with a degree of sympathy from higher up) the RAF sent the Javelins, everybody knowing that as high altitude all weather interceptors they were about as wrong a choice of a/c for any 'confrontation' that could be made.