The F-4 Phantom is a tandem-seat fighter-bomber designed as a carrier-based interceptor to fill the U.S. Navy's fleet defense fighter role. Innovations in the F-4 included use of pulse-doppler radar (only on late variants such as the F-4F) and extensive use of titanium in its airframe. [55]

Prior to the introduction of the F/A-18F, they were known as Radar Intercept Officers (RIO) in the aft seats of the F-4 Phantom II and F-14 Tomcat; [4] as Bombardier/Navigators (B/N) in the right seat of the A-6 Intruder and the A-3 Skywarrior and in the aft seat in the A-5 Vigilante; [5][6] and Reconnaissance Attack Navigators (RAN) in the aft ...

2020年9月24日 · Thomas Foster, Former US Navy RIO (Radar Intercept Officer F-4/F-14). In response to US Navy requirements for a high-altitude interceptor to defend carriers with long-range air-to-air missiles against attacking aircraft, McDonnell Aircraft Company delivered the F4H (later redesignated F-4) Phantom II .

Among the Americans were navy F-4 pilots and RIOs, USAF F-4 pilots and WSOs, F-105 pilots, and two navy guys who’d flown the A-1 and A-4. Our navy Phantom crew who made ace, Randy Duke Cunningham and his RIO, Willy Driscoll, were there.

2025年3月9日 · 在卷入近距格斗时，F-4的雷达官或武器官（ RIO （ 英语 ： Radar Intercept Officer ） 或 WSO （ 英语 ： Weapons Systems Officer ） ，通常称为“后座者”或“后排者”）目视或操作雷达搜索敌方战斗机。

Unique in that it carried no internal cannon, the F-4 relied on radar-guided missiles for offense and required a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) to operate its advanced sensors and weapons...

2022年6月21日 · The two eager F-4 crews crossed over land ahead of the Marine A-6 Intruder on station that could have provided electronic jamming of enemy ground radars. Without that, enemy missile sites began lighting up the Phantoms, and surface-to …

2024年1月31日 · Unique in that it carried no internal cannon, the F-4 relied on radar-guided missiles for offense and required a Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) to operate its advanced sensors and weapons systems. The aircraft’s maiden flight occurred in 1958 with deliveries to Navy and Marine Corps squadrons beginning in 1960.

2021年9月24日 · This book relates a unique perspective of air combat in Vietnam, that of a Marine radar intercept officer (RIO), the back-seater in the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom aircraft. A RIO is a branch of naval flight officers (NFOs) that support military aircraft other than pilots or naval aviators.