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(I rewatched it, for the first time since 1986, the night before seeing the sequel, and was surprised by how bad it is in almost every way.) So go see the sequel! It’s fun, it’s even funny, and it’s extremely well-crafted moviemaking. Top Gun: Maverick is a lot better than the original. The Iranian air force would have long ago used up all the planes’ spare parts and, owing to sanctions, couldn’t have bought them elsewhere.) Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith piloting the alien spacecraft in Independence Day is only somewhat less implausible. When the shah still ruled Tehran, up until 1979, the U.S. (This is the clearest argument for Iran as the rogue nation. And it’s still more unlikely that the old planes would be maintained and fueled up. If these bad guys ever had F-14s, it’s unlikely they’d still have them, given that they also have the most modern Russian jets.

So, he and his young partner, who’s never seen anything this old, hop on board the F-14, take off, shoot down a couple of ( much newer and more agile) enemy planes, and head back to the carrier. An F-14 is the plane that Maverick flew, in the original movie he shot down three Russian-made MiGs from that plane back then. As they approach the enemy airbase, they spot an F-14 in a protected hangar. (Spoilers ahead.) Maverick and his wingman are shot down they parachute into enemy territory and have to figure a way out.

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Everybody thinks that nobody can do this until Maverick demonstrates that he can, and then, through some form of inspirational osmosis, all of his teammates can do it too.īrett Kavanaugh’s Whoopsie Forces Groundhog Day at the Supreme Court The plan is impossibly complex: They have to fly F/A-18 planes from an aircraft carrier into enemy airspace, coming in very fast and very low to evade air defense radar, then swoop up over the mountain’s edge, swoop down into the valley, drop their bombs, then swoop up again, somehow evading surface-to-air missiles, whose crews would by now know where the pilots are and what they’re doing. Maverick, who has long been relegated to the job of testing exotic R&D planes, is brought in to design the attack plan and train the new crop of Top Gun winners to carry it out. has to destroy it before the uranium arrives.

Some rogue state (never named and not matching any real-world country, though Iran comes closest) has built a uranium enrichment plant in a deep valley surrounded by mountains.

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