My 17 yr old thought it was good but said there wasn’t enough fighter scenes. 🤷🏻♂️
Top Gun: Maverick
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He should count his lucky stars that the F-18 can simultaneously fly and fire missiles. Some military aircraft cannot.
They never say. The term “enemy” is used and the fighters have red stars on them. So, it leaves it open to some interpretation.
Its meant to be nondescript. As was the original Top Gun. Neither mentioned the nation of conflict by name. They battled Migs in the original and Sukhois in this version so its implied to be a Russian ally but neither movie actually stated that.
Btw no one so far mentioned that the attack plan is basically Star Wars with F\A18s? I actually laughed out loud a bit in the theatre when they briefing the plan.
I believe it has been widely discussed, at least in every review I have read. I thought someone mentioned it earlier here
Back in the 90s and 00s the enemy in our Intel Training scenarios was "RedLand" ...made up, ambiguous BS enemy. I assume its the same here. When your target audience is global, you don't want to villainize any particular country.
So what’s this one really about?
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Literally the only country/really countries it COULD be is Iran supported by Russia. Because only Iran has F-14s still around and only Russia has SU-57s.
Here’s a great article on the only F-14s left in operational Status.
Here’s a podcast that talks to some fighter pilots, that have also been instructors at Top Gun, about what they thought of the movie.
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That was amazing. I watched the whole thing. Thanks for sharing!
So did I. I was surprised that pretty much every flight maneuver in the movie is something the pilots said they have done. Even that death spiral scene towards the ground with Maverick and Rooster.
It's a movie. There are roughly ten "operational" Su-57s. For the guy slamming a plane of which almost a thousand are in service, you'd be better off piping down.
There’s not a thousand F-35s in current service because they can only keep about 60% of them in quasi-operational status using the various services loosest standards. Meanwhile the GAO found the real operational rate was 39% ie if you have a 100 of them then 61 are currently useless. Therefire more than a half of our alleged F-35 fleet are in various stages of broken down/useless and in need of refurbishment. Before the F-35 boondoggle, the worst case scenario was supposed to be 80% operational rates.
Hell yeah. New memorial day tradition. That was great. I want to vote for Tom Cruise and James Cameron.
India is dying to get the f35. It's a top notch airforce that regularly flies in red flag and cope India exercises with nato and us equipment. Like all planes, the f35 has had teething problems. Like all problems, they are being fixed. What we have here is a bunch of arm chair masturbators who, in real life, fly nothing. I ask the pilots themselves and am in the process of completing my own recreational pilot license. It's not like the f22 hasn't had problems.
Air Force Says Changes to F-22 Aircraft Will Let Pilots Breathe Easier in Flight - U.S. Medicine
By Sandra Basu WASHINGTON — Pilots will be able to breathe easier as a result of changes to the oxygen systems in the F-22 aircraft, Air Force officials recently assured a House committee. The F-22 fleet has been under intense scrutiny after some pilots flying the aircraft mysteriously...
www.usmedicine.com
As a child of the 1980’s, I enjoyed the movie.
As a cynic of the 21st century, I couldn’t help thinking that the Israelis would have completed the mission about 2 months before the U.S. Navy even started training for it. 😂
As a cynic of the 21st century, I couldn’t help thinking that the Israelis would have completed the mission about 2 months before the U.S. Navy even started training for it. 😂
No doubt about the latter statement.
Mysterious "accident" at Iran weapons facility with suspected links to nuclear program kills engineer
Defense Ministry says the "accident" struck the Parchin military research center, where the global nuclear agency suspectes Iran once conducted explosives tests.
www.cbsnews.com
CBO looked at some of the most numerous types of fighters to illustrate the difference in the availability rates for the Air Force and DoN. Fighters’ availability has declined for both services since about 2006.
My mom has been dead since 2015, so sure, current day Kelly McGillis probably looks better.
If you like the original Top Gun, you'll really like it. If it's a "meh" movie for you (like me), then you'll just be mildly entertained.
I just talked to two younger (<25 yo) people in my office, and neither of them had heard of Top Gun (neither the original nor the new one). How can that be?
People can say Top Gun is not their cup of tea, but to have not seen the movie is unAmerican, and I don't like it one bit.
Same thought.
Also loved the air force 60 second recruiting video before the movie.
We didn’t get that. We got Tom cruise chatting for a minute.
We got that also.It’s on you tube.
Its the earth is 70% water, 30% land, we own the air….
It was a good movie, but not great, imo. Anyone else find the premise that the only way to hit the target was to fly a plane there, when we have sophisticated missile systems that should be able to do the job?
My only issue was the sam threat part.
Not to be a spoiler but they could 95% been taken out before the mission.
Tom Cruise is literally saving Hollywood and making America great again with one movie!!
I’ve talked to several people who said they hadn’t been in a theater since the pandemic began that ventured out to see Maverick.
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