As the title says, can anyone come up with a realistic scenario where the English Electric Lightning uses the Red Top missile to get at least one air to air victory. OTL conflicts can be altered, or other conflicts can be invented, but I'd rather not see something too far fetched in the way of new operators or invented wars please.
The Lightning was operated by the
Royal Saudi Air Force from 1967 to 1986. So, it's more than possible that Lightnings could have been sent as the Saudi contribution to the October War. It's just marginally possible they might have shot down an Israeli aircraft or, more likely, run out of fuel and fallen on one that happened to be flying below.
Saudi Lightnings were also used in the air-to-ground role during a border dispute
South Yemen in 1969. At that time IIRC South Yemen was supported by the Egyptians so Lighnings may well have scored a kill there. In fact, its not beyond the bounds of possibility that they really did do so, a lot of the details of the fighting back then have never been made public.
In OTL, the Lightning did score a single kill. A British Harrier pilot ejected, but the pilotless aircraft continued to fly. The order was given to shoot down the aircraft and a Lightning did so. I think it used its guns to do so.