Radar-Intercept Officer

Wm226

Wm226

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I was reading an article about the Navy F-14 Tomcat that crashed off the coast of California a couple days ago. In the article, it said that the F-14 has a flight crew of two: a pilot and radar-intercept officer.

What are the responsibilities of a "radar-intercept officer"?

Thank you!
William
 
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I was reading an article about the Navy F-14 Tomcat that crashed off the coast of California a couple days ago. In the article, it said that the F-14 has a flight crew of two: a pilot and radar-intercept officer.

What are the responsibilities of a "radar-intercept officer"?

Thank you!
William

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(S)he operates the antiquated weapons systems in the F-14.

Hey, I'm not dogging...they really were the bomb in 1977!!!!
 
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Watch Top Gun!!!

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Ohhh... I never knew that Goose was the Radar-Intercept Officer. After all these years, I was assuming he was the co-pilot.

Bah! My assumptions...
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The RIO's the guy who answers the pilot's question of "Where'd he go?" with "Where'd WHOOO go?"
 
"We regret to inform you that your sons are dead because they were stupid...Great Balls of Fire!!!"

That movie should be requried watching for everyone in the Navy. I make everyone who works for me watch it at some point. LOL
 
Actually, if you watch the movie closely, if you see "Grinch" on one of the F-14's, that's one of my good pals who is a DFW captain.

Plus a lot of the guys that were playing sand volleyball were students of a captain I flew with a few months ago. They weren't even Tomcat pilots!
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And....If you see the scene where Tom Cruise first talks to the woman flight instructor in the bathroom, I've used that room before. It was a building in San Diego at the Recruit Training Center. That has since closed down and the entire "former" Recruit Training Center has now been converted into a private real estate developement, Liberty Station. Great Property and probably spendy.
 
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And....If you see the scene where Tom Cruise first talks to the woman flight instructor in the bathroom, I've used that room before.

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The women's restroom, or the big party room where its located?
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Make fun of Top Gun all you want........

.....but I better hear NO ONE bad-mouthing Iron Eagle 4
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.....but I better hear NO ONE bad-mouthing Iron Eagle 4
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I am going to rent that today.
 
the womens room....
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The mens room was full and the bldg was closed. couldn't wait.
 
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Make fun of Top Gun all you want........

.....but I better hear NO ONE bad-mouthing Iron Eagle 4
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They made an Iron Eagle 4?

[Looks up on IMDb...]

Holy crap, they did...

If you want to have a lot of fun, get a bunch of pilots and other military guys together and pop in "Iron Eagle." It's like the home version of MST3K. Had a good time in Korea one night watching that one.
 
Copa, ya beat me to it.

Iron Eagle Four? Great googly moogly...

Louis Gossett must really need the money. Plus, I was suprised with such an "A list" cast as such, they didn't throw in one of the lesser known Baldwins like Steven.
 
Yeah, IE-4 is pretty worthless.....I'm all for teaching the wayward kids about aviation, but that's pushin' it....
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