- For category page, see Category:Radar Intercept Officers.
- For Wikipedia article page, see Wikipedia:Radar intercept officer.
A radar intercept officer (RIO) is a naval flight officer who occupies the rear seat of such aircraft as the F-4 Phantom II and the F-14 Tomcat. The modern-day equivalent of the RIO is the weapon systems officer (WSO), who is the backseater in the U.S. Marine Corps' F/A-18D Hornet and the U.S. Navy's F/A-18F Super Hornet. WSOs are depicted in Top Gun: Maverick.
In Top Gun, RIOs include:
- LTJG Nick "Goose" Bradshaw
- LTJG Sam "Merlin" Wells
- LTJG Ron "Slider" Kerner
- LTJG Marcus "Sundown" Williams
- LTJG Leonard "Wolfman" Wolfe