My father was navigator in the Turbinlite variant of this. He and his pilot hated it and thought it one of the dumbest ideas of all time. As it was with other crews - they saw nothing and got nothing! Well, their attached fighter got nothing as some might not know that the batteries to run the light meant that the aircraft had to be stripped to basics with just two crew and NO armaments of any kind.
One they got on to Beaus and radar - they could hit back.