Tom Cooper posted:

BTW, from what I know a USAF Lt.Col. who was in the back-seat of the IIAF
RF-4E ...used photo-flash cartriges to decoy four R-13s:

Really? By 1980 no photo-flash cart in the USAF would have done that,
wrong band of the IR spectrum...versus the IR seeker's spectrum. Thank
goodness for early generation technology theft.

the engagement happened by the day, the crew of that RF-4E said the
cartriges were so powerful, they had a feeling somebody turned a second sun
right behind their backs each time one was deployed....

Interesting that they had photo-flash carts for a day mission and not
wall-to-wall chaff bundles in the cart breeches. And awfully sharp of
the WSO to select the "Night" position on the camera control panel so
he could puke the carts...that's what he'd have to do in a USAF RF-4C
in 1973, according to an RF-4C-1 (1975) the USAF didn't have IRCM
flares yet.

Juvat