Title: Top Gun 2: All X Jet Fighter Planes Appearing In Maverick
Headings: Top Gun 2: All 3 Jet Fighter Planes Appearing In Maverick
Top Gun 2: All 3 Jet Fighter Planes Appearing In Maverick
F-14 Tomcat
Boeing F/A 18E/18F Super Hornet
North American P-51 Mustang
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Content: F-14 Tomcat
It’s often said that you can’t beat a classic, but unfortunately for Maverick, that old saying has never proven true for the aeronautical engineers. The plane’s top speed of 2485 km/h remains phenomenally fast even today, so it makes sense that Tom Cruise’s protagonist piloted an iconic F-14 Tomcat throughout Scott’s 1986 cult classic Top Gun . But times change and so do planes, with Maverick’s trusty Tomcat being retired fourteen years ago due to technological advancements (although they are still in use in Iran, interestingly). There’s no way of knowing whether the Tomcat briefly peeked in the Top Gun 2 trailer will be piloted by the film’s hero, although it’s probably a safe bet that if so it’ll be a flashback rather than because Cruise’s character is now working with the Iranian military. Boeing F/A 18E/18F Super Hornet
According to the movie’s trailer, Maverick will now be (co-)piloting a Boeing F/A 18F Super Hornet, a far newer model that's still in use among the military but features some significant changes to his old preferred hardware. For one thing, Top Gun: Maverick 's new jet the Super Hornet is significantly slower than the Tomcat despite being a newer model, with a top speed of 1915 km/h. And as if the (comparative) lack of speed weren’t enough to annoy Cruise’s feckless antihero the 18F Super Hornet spotted in the film’s trailer is a two-pilot model, meaning the man nicknamed “Maverick” will have to be in constant co-operation with a co-worker. It’s a clever change that could pay off with dramatic dividends in the film if Cruise’s lone wolf has to rely on collaboration. Incidentally Maverick can thank former US VP/ Haliburton CEO Dick Cheney for the hardware upgrade, as the subject of Adam McKay’s Vice derided the Tomcat as “pre-1960s technology” when he pushed to replace it with the Super Hornet.