why do some fighter aircraft have a Weapons System Officer while others don’t(?) (more in comments)

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This is inspired by seeing Top Gun: Maverick, where one fighter has a second person in the cockpit as a weapons system officer, while the other doesn’t. Does the other aircraft only have a one-seat cockpit?

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The top gun cast weren’t allowed in the single occupant aircraft because of some pretty essential military protocols about not letting general civilians loose with classified military equipment.
Some of the next gen aircraft are all single occupant.

They could only film the actors in dual occupant aircraft and so they adapted the story.

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