Norad's military radar and jets track and intercept suspicious aircraft, and join with law-enforcement aircraft to follow the planes until they land.

"I'm a naval flight officer--a radar intercept operator, if you must know."

On her second line period, she lost an F-4 to enemy fire northeast of Hanoi with the pilot and radar intercept officer missing in action.

Behind him, in the backseat, his RIO (radar intercept officer), who had done all the targeting work, said, "Phoenix is locked on.

We had poor-to-bad radar for the final stage of the intercept.

The Key West unit concentrated on air-to-air combat, missile firing and radar intercept techniques.

The wing was organized in 1960 and assigned a fighter interceptor squadron and a squadron operating a radar for ground control intercept.

In the seat behind Jackson's, the radar intercept officer flipped switches to activate the aircraft's defense systems.

Their daughter, Sarah, flew in Navy F-14 fighter jets, as a radar intercept officer (RIO).

Flynn, call sign "Tomboy," was a petite redhead, a radar intercept officer who'd served with a reserve squadron flying out of Oceana before being transferred to VF-95.