Title: In the film Top Gun, what is an RIO? - Quora
Headings: In the film Top Gun, what is an RIO?
In the film Top Gun, what is an RIO?
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Content: In the film top gun what is a RIO? In the United States Navy, WSOs are Naval Flight Officers responsible for manning the weapon systems of the F/A-18F Super Hornet strike fighter from that jet's aft seat. Prior to the introduction of the F/A-18F, they were known as Radar Intercept Officers (RIO) [ 1]
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[ 1] Weapon systems officer - Wikipedia
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Mark Hughes
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"RIO" stands for Radar Intercept Officer, the pre-2007 designation used for what is now known as a Weapon Systems Officer (WSO) in the U.S. Navy. An RIO manned the weapons system from the rear (aft) seat in the Navy’s F-14 Tomcats and F-4 Phantom II fighter jets prior to 2007. 5.5K views
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Its the radar intercept officer. Popularly known as the ‘navigator’, ‘gunner’, ‘bombardier’ and other names, its basically the guy who sits in the back of the plane while the pilot sits in the front.