My favorite movie of the year – Top Gun 2!
36 years ago, 24-year-old Tom Cruise's outstanding performance in "Top Gun" was a worldwide hit, and today at the age of 59, he once again starred in "Top Gun: Maverick" as a loner who stunned the world. Top Gun 2 has grossed US$1.38 billion worldwide, or RMB9.4 billion, making it number 13 worldwide.
Let's take stock of these 5 indispensable fighters:
1. F18 Hornet Fighter Attack Aircraft - Workhorse
Atango drives F18
F18 Hornet combat attack aircraft
The F18, the fighter used by the raid squad in the film, is a three-generation multi-role carrier-based fighter, which has the characteristics of both fighter and attack aircraft, and has excellent air, ground and sea attack capabilities. The U.S. Navy's most important carrier-based aircraft, the variant of the F14. It was produced by McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) and exported to Canada, Australia, Spain, Switzerland, Finland, Malaysia and other countries. The first show of the Libyan war, the main fighter of the Gulf War.
Design comprehensive flight training for actors
In the official tidbits of Top Gun 2, it is revealed that all flight scenes are real shooting, and the actor who plays the pilot must undergo 3 months of devil training. To this end, Atang Ge not only spent 30 days to obtain the pilot's license, but also designed a comprehensive flight training for the actors. All the flying scenes in the film are personally played by him, and he is also piloting an active combat aircraft, which is a shocking sense of reality. California's "Milamar Marine Corps Air Base" (MCAS Miramar) is the film's live-action filming location, and the U.S. Navy has supported the whole process, dispatching Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and bringing together excellent active pilots to participate in the filming.
2. F14 Tomcat fighter - love machine
F14 Tomcat fighter jets launch air-to-air missiles
The F14, the aircraft recaptured by the protagonist from the enemy airfield in the film, is a supersonic multi-role carrier-based fighter, according to which some netizens said that the hostile forces in the film mirror Iran. Although Iran is located in the Middle East, it has achieved many snowy mountains due to topographical reasons, and the snow mountain base in the film can also be corroborated, but the actual Iran does not have the equipment of the SU-57, a fifth-generation aircraft. The F14 is a two-seat, twin-engine, twin-tailed, rear-swept, one-wing layout that performs fleet defense, interception, strike, and reconnaissance missions. It is an alternative to the F4 Phantom fighter, a famous aircraft in World War II, and 700 fighters were developed and produced by Grumman. The diplomatic honeymoon period during the reign of The United States and Iran's Shah Pahlavi exported 79 Iranian aircraft, and the F-14 was officially retired from the U.S. Navy in 2006.
3. E-2D latest Hawkeye AWACS - Nanny Machine
E-2D latest Hawkeye AWACS aircraft
The airborne early warning coordination mission in the film is the U.S. Navy's most advanced early warning aircraft E-2D, which is used to perform tasks such as early warning command, combat management, theater integrated air defense and anti-missile, information distribution, search and rescue. It is an improved version of the E-2C Hawkeye 2000, developed by Grumman, and the US military ordered 166 E2C early warning aircraft, delivered in 1996, and exported to France, Singapore, Japan, and Taiwan. The E2D first flew in 2007.
4. P-51 Mustang fighter - World War II classic aircraft
P-51 Mustang fighter
In the film, TangGe's bubble girl artifact P-51 Mustang fighter was driven by Brother Tang himself, and it is also a fighter that Brother Tang participated in with his own private property. It is the most famous fighter in the US Military during World War II, when the single-engine fighter had the longest range and was the most important aircraft for strategic bombing escort in europe and the Pacific theater. Developed by North American Airlines, using the British Rolls-Royce authorized production engines, a total of 15875 were produced, and handed over to the US and British Air Forces and the Chinese Air Force for use. The P-51 was the workhorse of World War II and the Korean War.
The P-51 has deep roots with China, and on October 17, 1943, the first eight P-51Bs arrived in Kunming, and the U.S. Army's 14th Air Force (AVG, commonly known as the Flying Tigers) began to enter China. In China's War of Resistance Against Japan, it shined brightly, crushing opponents again and again in the duel with Japan's Nakajima Kazukazu "Hayabusa" fighter and The Swift Fighter, and later the Japanese Air Force saw the silver fighter: P-51 and retreated from the battle. On October 1, 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, a total of nine P-51s participated in the founding ceremony, alerting them to the threat of Kuomintang aircraft and flying over Beijing as a show fleet to participate in the military parade.
5. Dark Star Dark Star Hypersonic Tester (Hypothetical) Prototype: SR-72 TestEr - Dream Technology Machine
In the film, Atang Ge drives a test machine that exceeds Mach 10——!。 Sandboxx News reports that Lockheed Martin's legendary Skunk Factory team was directly involved in the development of a full-scale model of the hypersonic Darkstar aircraft in Top Gun: Maverick.
Dark Star Dark Star
In reality, it is also very likely that the company is secretly developing the SR-2 hypersonic aircraft. You can look at the rendering, compare yourself, and eat melon. But everything is just speculation before the results of SR-2 are officially announced in the United States!
Information released by Lockheed Martin
Rendering comparison
What do you think about that? Which fighter do you prefer?