'Mahmoud' was the designation of Allied special night-fighter lure operations against German night-fighters not fitted with rearward-looking radar (1944/8 May 1945).

Operating within streams of RAF Bomber Command conventional bombers, the 'Mahmoud' night-fighters, most generally de Havilland Mosquito machines fitted with Monica radar-warning equipment, which could be detected by German night-fighters, to lure their opponents into an attack. Each 'Mahmoud' night-fighter also carried a Serrate rearward-facing radar receiver, mounted in the rear fuselage, which allowed the crew of the British night-fighter to detect any German night-fighter coming up on the tail of its aeroplane.Then, using the higher speed of its own machine, sweep round to come up, undetected, behind the tail of the German night-fighter, fix its position accurately with its onboard airborne interception radar and shoot it down.