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zhangjim

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Helius said:
From a more technical standpoint on the film's accuracy, leaving aside the Navy would allow a 60-year-old (or 57 to be specific since Top Gun 2 was supposed to release in 2019) to be on active duty flying frontline missions still,
that he's already crashed a jet not once but twice (the F-14 and the Dark Star) would've surely had his wings clipped and not be allow to return to flight status.

First time he was exonerated, a case could still be made to let him continue to fly. But the second time? After he'd already disobeyed a direct order to stand down, took the only experimental prototype and intentionally over-stressed the hull beyond its designed limits so that it disintegrated mid-flight yet still managed to physically bail out while travelling at Mach 10+ and somehow came out unscathed?

Yeah you're done flying. He was lucky he wasn't court-martialled and dismissed from the service at the least.
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I saw a bit of Top Gun Maverick.
This movie is really terrible, especially what I saw was the best part.
In order to make the F-14 appear, the film insults everyone's IQ.
 
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Helius said:
From a more technical standpoint on the film's accuracy, leaving aside the Navy would allow a 60-year-old (or 57 to be specific since Top Gun 2 was supposed to release in 2019) to be on active duty flying frontline missions still,
that he's already crashed a jet not once but twice (the F-14 and the Dark Star) would've surely had his wings clipped and not be allow to return to flight status.

First time he was exonerated, a case could still be made to let him continue to fly. But the second time? After he'd already disobeyed a direct order to stand down, took the only experimental prototype and intentionally over-stressed the hull beyond its designed limits so that it disintegrated mid-flight yet still managed to physically bail out while travelling at Mach 10+ and somehow came out unscathed?

Yeah you're done flying. He was lucky he wasn't court-martialled and dismissed from the service at the least.
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Doesn't matter how much effort they put into making it, using real planes and getting Tom Cruise to ride in F-18F when end product is less realistic than this...

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Canton_pop

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zhangjim said:
I saw a bit of Top Gun Maverick.
This movie is really terrible, especially what I saw was the best part.
In order to make the F-14 appear, the film insults everyone's IQ.
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Perhaps I am missing something in this movie, throughout the movie I am asking myself why US Navy allow nation best pilots to risk their live flying a F/A18 into enemy territory full of SAMs instead of using radar-evading F-35?
 
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emblem21

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Canton_pop said:
Perhaps I am missing something in this movie, throughout the movie I am asking myself why US Navy allow nation best pilots to risk their live flying a F/A18 into enemy territory full of SAMs instead of using radar-evading F-35?
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Because stupid maybe or simply this is foreshadowing that the performance of the f-35 is simply not up to par. I mean if it is, they would be showing it off like as though they are showing of a Japanese body pillow, high and proud, I mean I don’t see why they are trying to hide it because if they are a super power, then they should have nothing to hide right?
 
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emblem21 said:
Because stupid maybe or simply this is foreshadowing that the performance of the f-35 is simply not up to par. I mean if it is, they would be showing it off like as though they are showing of a Japanese body pillow, high and proud, I mean I don’t see why they are trying to hide it because if they are a super power, then they should have nothing to hide right?
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I heard it was because they wanted to have some actually inside the cockpit flying scenes and the f35 is definitely off the table so they went with this instead.
 
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