Badgers over Australia
A bit of history that might be of interest.
When Confrontation with Indonesia emerged, Australia deployed reinforcements for Sabre elements to Butterworth and Singapore and sent an air defence detachment to Darwin. The Avon Sabre was of course a day interceptor armed with Sidewinder and 30mm cannon but only a gun-sight radar.
A bit later, we were directed to do night intercept training. The old GCI radar at Darwin would position the interceptor about 2NM line astern of the target - with accuracy sometimes plus or minus 2NM - and both aircraft lights out. The interceptor would then begin a gentle climb to co-altitude around 40,000 feet while softly pedalling rudder to get a Sidewinder acquisition tone. There was a match box size meter on the left hand side of the cockpit which gave missile ranging parameters so the idea was to close on the target using this indicator until in gun ranging radar proximity and then move in to identify the target. Just how we were supposed to get positive ID in inky blackness was never explained; maybe drop the landing gear to turn on the landing light and fall out of the sky! We had a couple of instances of calling 'lights on' and being near between red and green nav light halos, then bunting and going supersonic downhill into total darkness. Bloody scary and we soon convinced hierarchy too dangerous.
Some years later, a now deceased friend who became Air Attache at Jakarta was informed by an old Indonesian Air Force pilot over beers that he had seen the lights of Alice Springs from a Badger.