Jordanian Starfighters
They didn’t get the camo until late in service, and once this service was over their job became airfield decoys for Mirage F.1’s. Note in your last pic the horizontal tailplane has been removed from the top of the fin, they then had thin metal plates welded onto either side of the rear fuselage so they better resembled F.1’s from above, see attached pic.
This is from vectorsite –
http://www.vectorsite.net/avf104_3.html
In the later half of the 1960s, Jordan obtained about 18 ex-USAF F-104As and 6 ex-USAF F-104Bs, with initial deliveries just in time for the 6-Day War of June 1967. Most of Jordan’s air force was destroyed on the ground during that conflict, but the Starfighters survived since Jordanian pilots didn’t know how to fly them well enough at the time to use them safely in combat, and they were accordingly sent to safe haven in Turkey.
After a lapse while the aftermath of the war was sorted out, the deliveries of ex-USAF Starfighters were completed, to be followed by a batch of F-104As from Taiwan. Apparently the Jordanians were instructed by Pakistani pilots, and in return for the courtesy, as mentioned above Jordanian Starfighters fought in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War, suffering several losses at the hands of the Indian Air Force.
Jordanian Starfighters were originally delivered in anti-corrosion overall light gray, to later acquire a dark green / olive / tan disruptive camouflage pattern on top with light gray underneath. Jordanian Starfighters were retired from operational service in the late 1970s, being replaced by French Dassault Mirage F1 fighters. Some of the old Starfighters ended up as airfield decoys, at least in some cases “dummied up” to resemble the Mirage F1.
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