Behold the greatest recruiting tool the US Navy and Airforce ever had. No joke, recruitment rates tripled the weekend this movie opened and there were recruitment booths in cinema lobbies
UsfanlovesMinho This was actually one of the very first movies my family ever owned on home video back in the day. I was a kid and I wanted nothing more than to grow up and join the US navy as a fighter jock, even though I was British, because I wanted to be Maverick.
weldonwin I was in my early 20's when this came out and we also bought the movie on a VHS. Sometimes when we were trying to decide on what to watch someone would yell out, I Have The Need For Speed, and we all know what that meant. LOL
Maverick may have been the star of the movie but this sequence shows why Iceman won the top spot in class. Evading five enemy jets while still engaging the six, and lasting long enough for backup to arrive.
Mav did shoot down three. Ice took down one. Four out of six or seven taken down. One loss on out side. Imagine if Ice and Mav decided to work together in Top Gun rather than against each other. All seven jets would have hit the sea.
I had just graduated high school when this movie cane out. After this scene, I called the recruiter and joined the next day. No shit. I was assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) just after it was commissioned. I got to the flight deck and realized there were no camera's filming. No high five/low five when I walked past another guy after a Tomcat just took off. Too fucking tired. It was the toughest job I could possibly imagine. But in retrospect, I really had a great time. Sailors know how to party when we hit the beach, that much is certain.
I got to see the action, but from my boat, the Mahan-ddg 42, When we did excercises with comcrudesgru-2 USS Eisenhower.... Got to see the f-4's, f-14's, and f-18's fly by's... Of course there were 5 other boats with the group, this is where we tested the SM-2's for the first time
You're telling us the movie Top Gun somehow duped you into signing on with the Navy? No high fives nor 80s background rock music as F-14s took off? Was that the point you were thinking you should get your money back from the movie theater?
The F-14 played it's biggest role in Top Gun but it influenced a generation in other ways. The Macross transforming fighters were based off the F-14. I had several of them as a kid, they were awesome. It's still my favorite fighter plane for all of the above reasons. That said, the F-35 is pretty bad ass too. I am curious to see what they do with them.
I still cheer when Merlin says “Remaining MiGs are buggin’ out”, every time I watch this movie. Just puts the biggest smile on my face after such an epic final showdown.
My Dad was 8 years Navy, aviator and chaplain. Four years in the Marine Corps is an aviator in Chaplin. I had a plane ticket booked to fly to Dallas to see my father on June 26, on the 27th I was going to take him to the movies for his birthday which was July 10. Dad was 90 years old, and God took him home on May 5. He and I got to see the first top gun movie in the theater together, 34 years later we had planned to do it again, and see Maverick top gun. Between Covid, and God Almighty, it wasn’t meant to be. Dad I miss you more than you’ll ever know I still love you to the end of time. Semper Fi
I never realized how freakin big the F-14's were until I saw Executive Decision. When they were flying next to the 747 they were almost half the size of it. Pretty impressive considering how maneuverable they are.
protector1990 The idea is to bleed speed. He would want to airbrake in this case, having full afterburners on would simply make the plane climb and would not help in dropping the pursuit. With thrust vectoring it may work, but not on something like the F14.
The only one that comes to mind would have been his older brother, Sir Ridley. Eventually he got his chance to work with Jerry Bruckheimer too on "Black Hawk Down."
Seriously! Anybody else feel for Merlin in this movie??? He got the raw end of the deal with TWO of the best pilots in the Navy totally freaking while flying with him in real life situations!
+UsfanlovesMinho too bad they couldn't get the calls right while fighting(was in the Navy SAR)....and a real fight sounds nothing like this...but it is entertaining..lol
How it should have happened: Seaman: "Both catapults are broken we cant launch anyone" Captain: son...are you stupid? We have FOUR catapults. Use the other two goddammit.
The best tom cruise movie, the best us airforce recruitment tool, and the greatest soundtrack to ever come out of the 1980s. Rest in peace Eddie Van Halen.
I know Maverick gets a lot of credit, but can we talk about the fact Iceman and Slider were about to engage three MIGs on their own with no wingman? That takes courage...and a little insanity. 😅
This movie is timeless! No matter what they do with the technology, no movie has ever come close when it comes to classic air battles shown in this movie! Totally an all time classic!
I plan on watching this tomorrow to celebrate Memorial Day. The U.S. Navy still doesn't have a fleet interceptor and air-superiority fighter to rival the F-14 Tomcat's capabilities. The combination AIM-54 Phoenix missile and AN/AWG-9 radar weapons system could track and engage 6 targets simultaneously at a range up to 120 nm. The AIM-54 Phoenix used active tracking in the terminal phase, predating the AIM-120 AMRAAM with this capability by several decades. The latest model of the AMRAAM, the AIM-120D, only approaches the Phoenix in terms of range, without quite matching it (though after decades of development and refinement, the AMRAAM likely does exceed the Phoenix in other areas such as maneuverability, which contribute to probability-of-kill). The F-14 was not the most maneuverable fighter out there, though was surprisingly agile considering her overall size, likely maxing out at around 6g of load on the airframe (where 9g is the typical all-out for a pure air superiority fighter like the F-15C or MIG-29). However, the advanced tactics taught by the Fighter Weapons School made up for this disparity by ensuring our pilots were the best trained in the world. She brought other capabilities to the table, of course, that no other comparable jet before the F-22 could match, such as time-to-climb performance and intercept speed. All of these attributes together made her the best carrier defender bar none, still unmatched all-around to this day.
utubenoobie01 There's a difference. A barrel roll is purely for stunting, and it has loops as well as rolls. The one Maverick did was an aileron roll, which is done strategically so you can have a 360 degree view of your surroundings, above, below and beside you.
4:28 I like to imagine that at this point, though we hear Merlin's voice, Maverick hears Goose's voice just at his shoulder screaming, "GET IN THE FIGHT, MAVERICK!"
"Our pilots became dependent on missiles, lost some of their dogfighting skills." Towards end of movie: "Got a problem here, only got 1 missile left." Ummm...Vulcan cannon?
@@jdolaktv missiles are not a guaranteed kill and if a vulcan cannon round hits, the plane is usually disabled or destroyed, cause it's usually a lot hitting at once. Dogfighting like they were training would have made them a lot more adept with guns too
REALLY important for the upcoming Top Gun 2, I know they have stressed on no cgi (and so far from the trailers I am VERY pleased) but if there are any dogfight scenes I hope they follow the same example and not use CGI for the explosions and rather use practical effects (such as blowing up model planes) like they did here!
The BEST scene of any 80s film that shows THE best definition of at first, backing down from a fight, but then getting back into the fight and saying, i've got your back, and you've got mine
or using the memories from the loss of a loved one or a dear friend not as a sad reminder to the good old times but instead to inspire u to create even better new memories
There probably not mountains. Clouds above the ocean with help from the sun give the impression of mountains. There was another example of it in the actual movie. I say this with respect👍✌️
The best scene from any 80s film that shows the BEST definition of backing down at first, but then getting back into the fight and then saying,I've got your back you've got mine"
This movie will always hold a special place in my heart just to bad the last F-14 squadron was decommissioned a few months before I made it to the fleet!
A sequel is fine. A remake would be doo-doo. This is a classic film that was FILMED, not CGI’d to death. Look at and learn from Red Dawn, that remake stunk.
Ice waas defenitly the well deserved winner of top gun. Amazing how he survived that mig soup after wood went down, and continously was able to evade missle shots and gunfire the entire fight. That dude has some skillz.
Somehow holding off 6 MiGs while Maverick needed 30 seconds to arrive, doze off due to jetwash, then let's him blast 3 MiGs on 4 shots. How did MiG #6 arrive out of nowhere?
On Ace Combat 04, during one of the last missions, there was an enemy on my tail and he was close enough to use his guns. So I pulled Maverick's maneuver and it actually worked. Blew that a-hole outta the sky!
That's really cool that you say that!!! I was watching the making of Top Gun here on youtube and one of the real Naval aviators who worked on the movie (call sign "Flex") talked about the aileron rolls in real life and how it had no tatical advantage. He just said that spinning around looked really cool for the movie and the makers of the movie loved so they did it a lot. However the fact that you did in basically a simulated dog fight even though it was just a video game and it gave you an advantage...that's kinda cool to hear.
Like they most likely have ever been in a real air battle... the USA NEVER usually picks a fight with a nation with much of an air force. All they have done is played too a half written game plan never been in a fight.
This is my morning motivation. Nearest I can figure as a housewife, if iceman can survive a 1v6 dogfight for 3-4 minutes, I can get out of bed and get my housework done. I know it may sound like a joke but it's not. My depression makes doing even easy tasks hard, so I take whatever I can get to motivate.
Hang in Jessica. It's okay not to feel okay all the time. Take care of your family AND yourself. Please. You have too much to offer the world not to be firing on all cylinders.Baby steps. Doctors, medicine, yoga, whatever. The sun will rise tomorrow I promise. I've been there girl
Fun fact- Merlin is played by the same actor who played Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption. Don't know if anyone cares, just thought that was interesting tidbit of information.
+Bob Ramsey (superbram) Yeah, he's a dipshit liberal but a pretty good actor. Fun Fact- Tom Cruise kills him in War of the Worlds. Which was kind of hard to believe since Robbins is 6'5" and Tom Cruise is nearly a foot shorter and tiny.
Ice never once turns his head to look back to confirm when Slider informs him about the position of the enemy crafts or tells him to do something. He has complte faith in the judgement of his RIO. Thats why they were the topgun and how they were able to evade so many enemy jets while waiting for backup to arrive.
I wonder how this movie would have ended if Peppy from Star Fox was instructing these guys. "Do a barrel roll!" "Roger that!" *proceeds to spin out and crash*
1:55 you can see they have ACFT stacked up on Cats 1 & 2. Would have taken a lot of time to re-spot them, especially if they needed to send them down the elevators.
Former ABE here, rate that operates the cats. First like the other guy said the bow was covered in parked aircraft. Can't launch from cats 1 and 2. Second, equipment breaks. Seen it many times.
Besides even if the carrier cant launch any more jets and the MiGs reach them, the carrier must likely have escort ships with SAMs and CIWS. I dont see anti-ship missiles on the MiGs either.
The navy needs an air interceptor u do not currently have an air interceptor and plz dont say the fa 18 is an air interceptor. The f14 in my opinion will always be the best air interceptor of the us navy with so many confirmed and unconfirmed mig kills.
@@demonlordomegaacepilot7090 there's no need for an interceptor (a borderline obsolete concept) when you have rhinos with bags carrying aim-120d's and DDG's with SM-6's
@@ArizonaAstraLLC thats not accurate. Thats mid 90s early 2000s thinking. With Long range a ti ship missiles you need aircraft that can intercept out at sea before enemy aircraft get close enough to deploy. SM6 have short range. You need something to fly out 300 nmi then engage
This movie still makes me want to be fighter pilot! Honestly supersonic, aerial, fights to the death might be the single most intense activity that humans have ever endeavored. What else competes? Space travel, land speed records, wing suit dives, etc. all extremely bad ass -- but this is that level of excitement plus mortal combat.
It’s funny 😁 to me how Maverick said on the count of 3 break hard right then he started counting backwards also he told he to break right anyway after he finished counting like Iceman didn’t know how to count lol 😆
Take a look at the Gulf of Sidar incident back in 1989. 2 Mig 21 vs. 2 F-14 Tomcats off the Kennedy. The video of the Tomcats shooting down both Mig's is on UA-cam. It took 25 years before we ever found out who the pilots and RIO's were.
Actually, the Navy gave the producers of Top Gun a lot of access and support, and in exchange they mandated several changes to the script. One of those changes was to remove any mention of Russian or Soviet pilots as being the 'aggressors' in the final sequence. So we're left to assume what we will about the identity of the 'enemy' forces, since it's not explicitly stated. And given the year the movie was released, the best assumption would be that they were either Libyan or Iranian.
I watched this movie a million times growing up and if my mom was in the room when Merlin says that she would just start laughing. It was just such a great line to throw in there in an intense action scene like that. LOL
When Maverick first encounters this final dogfight scene, the naval aviators are pulling off a maneuver called, "rolling scissors". If you're able to watch this in slo-mo, it really looks like 2 or 3 pairs of opened scissors rolling around each other, following a triangular pattern. There's one other time in the movie when you see this text book maneuver
Yep, if you watched the show "Dogfights" on the history channel, on one episode the pilots from the Vietnam War era that are being interviewed on that show talks about that maneuver a lot. Top Gun stole a lot of textbook maneuvers from the Vietnam War era pilots that they used in dogfighting during the Vietnam War including the "Hit The Brakes" maneuver.
@@shawnwomack3446 Wasn't there a version where you hit the brakes, you do a barrel spin halfway though to track and lock on to the enemy almost immediately after he passes underneath?
It WAS green screened back then :D Tom Cruise etc got to fly couple times with the F-14 to get the experience and talks with the pilots to get to the character (check out the video about that) and they had very limited amount of the footage about these aircrafts doing maneuvers etc, why they repeat them very much in the movie. And the movie would have been boring if it would have been realistic, as all those barrel rolls etc are useless in real dogfight, but it looks cool....
Bruh, u think Tom cruise is a real pilot?? U think they are really up in the air flying like that?? It is green screen.... did u mean to say CGI or something?
I watched this in theater on a Friday night. Monday morning I went to my recruiter and joined. After basic I was assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt just a month after she was commissioned. Did 4 years as an Aviation Ordnaceman 3rd class in the G-3 Division of the weapons department which are called "mag rats" because we worked in the weapons magazines down in the lower decks. Got out just as Desert Storm began. Some of my fondest memories were from those 4 years.
Thank you for your service! My first husband was in the Navy, 6 years on the Richard E. Byrd. No flying. He worked the radar, and thank God, no wars. Our only daughter was born during that time, and I'm still mad that he didn't take one month leave, as I knew I was going to go a little early. He missed it by only a few days, and instead, I had the 'honor' of my mother-in-law 'down there'. Oh God. She kept telling me not to push as the contractions were intensifying, and I was about ready to scream shut up! Lol It was a girl, my only child after 2 marriages, but I have 6 grandchildren, so I'm happy. She did me proud.
Behold the greatest recruiting tool the US Navy and Airforce ever had. No joke, recruitment rates tripled the weekend this movie opened and there were recruitment booths in cinema lobbies
+weldonwin How nice that you quote IMDB facts here, and realy facts everybody knows :)
+weldonwin Dont listen to the other guy, i found this quite interesting
+weldonwin I remember that. So many enlisted thinking it would be like this movie and they were sadly disappointed.
UsfanlovesMinho
This was actually one of the very first movies my family ever owned on home video back in the day. I was a kid and I wanted nothing more than to grow up and join the US navy as a fighter jock, even though I was British, because I wanted to be Maverick.
weldonwin I was in my early 20's when this came out and we also bought the movie on a VHS. Sometimes when we were trying to decide on what to watch someone would yell out, I Have The Need For Speed, and we all know what that meant. LOL
The most underrated line in this movie "You're gonna do WHAT?!".
Good, but there's always
"Where'd who go"
FACTS 😂😂😂😂
Umas das minhas frases favoritas
Maverick may have been the star of the movie but this sequence shows why Iceman won the top spot in class. Evading five enemy jets while still engaging the six, and lasting long enough for backup to arrive.
Gospel 🙏
Where’d he go? Where’d whooooo go?
Yes thats why he and Slider won Top Gun. Again Top Gun isn't about the trophy...its about becoming a better pilot.
Mav did shoot down three. Ice took down one. Four out of six or seven taken down. One loss on out side. Imagine if Ice and Mav decided to work together in Top Gun rather than against each other. All seven jets would have hit the sea.
Truth. He earned that plaque and everything it represents!
"I'm bringing him in closer Merlin. You're gonna do what?!" My favorite line of the whole movie.
I had just graduated high school when this movie cane out. After this scene, I called the recruiter and joined the next day. No shit. I was assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) just after it was commissioned. I got to the flight deck and realized there were no camera's filming. No high five/low five when I walked past another guy after a Tomcat just took off. Too fucking tired. It was the toughest job I could possibly imagine. But in retrospect, I really had a great time. Sailors know how to party when we hit the beach, that much is certain.
and you probably didn't meet no pilots code signed "mAverick" or "ice, Mann" as Tom cruise would say.
Feel sorry dude. Had the same experience with school after reading Harry Potter. Really disappointing.
HUZZAH! USN!
I got to see the action, but from my boat, the Mahan-ddg 42, When we did excercises with comcrudesgru-2 USS Eisenhower.... Got to see the f-4's, f-14's, and f-18's fly by's... Of course there were 5 other boats with the group, this is where we tested the SM-2's for the first time
You're telling us the movie Top Gun somehow duped you into signing on with the Navy? No high fives nor 80s background rock music as F-14s took off? Was that the point you were thinking you should get your money back from the movie theater?
The F14 Tomcat was the real star of the film. Miss the old girl!
They're fools if they think they can make the F-35 look this badass in the sequel.
They are all going to be dog fighting from an air conditioned room...piloting drones 🤣
Go to Grumman in Hicksville NY they got the last f14 to come off the line
The F-14 played it's biggest role in Top Gun but it influenced a generation in other ways. The Macross transforming fighters were based off the F-14. I had several of them as a kid, they were awesome. It's still my favorite fighter plane for all of the above reasons.
That said, the F-35 is pretty bad ass too. I am curious to see what they do with them.
it was too heavy
“I’m not leaving my wingman...” -> couldn’t tell you how many times i said this back in my single days!
So kool
I still cheer when Merlin says “Remaining MiGs are buggin’ out”, every time I watch this movie. Just puts the biggest smile on my face after such an epic final showdown.
Your gonna do what!!
Yeah when he says your going to do what is awesome
Have 5 migs. Shot down 4, but two buggin' out. Math not match. :D
"You've got a MIG on your left - 3 o'clock!"
hmmm
+gumbo that's hollywood for you! All up there with 'over and out'
+gumbo Sidewinder select!. Smile!.
+QuantFx HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA insane comeback !!
+gumbo I see that as someone who is panicking.
Hit the breaks, and they will fly right bye!. Smile!.
Merlin: "you're slowing down. you're slowing down!"
Mav: "I'm bringing him in closer"
Merlin: "YOU'RE GONNA DO WHAT?!"
eyes open wide...
New underwear for Merlin!
ill hit the brakes, he'll fly right by.
HAHAHAHAHA
Classic! 🐸
Tom's solid salute before launching is his definite saying LET'S DO THIS
It was an absolute necessity that they brought it back in the sequel 👍
Tom? You mean Lieutenant Pete Mitchell?? 😂
My Dad was 8 years Navy, aviator and chaplain. Four years in the Marine Corps is an aviator in Chaplin. I had a plane ticket booked to fly to Dallas to see my father on June 26, on the 27th I was going to take him to the movies for his birthday which was July 10. Dad was 90 years old, and God took him home on May 5. He and I got to see the first top gun movie in the theater together, 34 years later we had planned to do it again, and see Maverick top gun. Between Covid, and God Almighty, it wasn’t meant to be. Dad I miss you more than you’ll ever know I still love you to the end of time. Semper Fi
He has just gone to regroup.
Ooh rah
Condonlence
Very sorry for your loss, my dad died at 63 I'm now 65 i still can't believe he's gone
"I'm bringing him in closer, Merlin."
"You're gonna do WHAT?!"😂😂
Gto
THE MORE RISKY THE BETTER.❤
When Maverick initially bugs out I can imagine Merlin was thinking, "Goddammit! Why do I always get the pilots who lose their cool?!"
right!!! He was with Cougar when he lost it. just got that.
Cool
Like ice
lmao
....Merlin already got experiencie dealing hard times in real life, in that case is the best partner to Mav....
Iceman was that guy. Literally 1 on 4 for a good 60 seconds
Yes ice could fly his ass off!!
Until maverick came and saved his ass
@@ammarbakir1597 bro what did you want him to do. Him being alive is impressive enough
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@@MattKearneyFan1 Yep, 1-on-6. They splashed four of them later, but two fled.
Best line of Tim Robbins career:
"You're gonna do what!!?!?"
I always laugh when Tim Robbins (Merlin) says " You're gonna do what?"
Absolutely!
Same that is my favorite line in the whole movie. And the look on Merlin's face.
His eyes lol
🤣🤣🤣
It is a pretty damn awesome reaction!
I never realized how freakin big the F-14's were until I saw Executive Decision. When they were flying next to the 747 they were almost half the size of it. Pretty impressive considering how maneuverable they are.
Whose here watching old TopGun scenes having just watched the TopGun 2 trailer?
You know it.
Practically everyone.
Me too
Top Gun 2?!?!??!
that includes mee
The intensity is insane. Pulling G’s, fighting for position, and working as a team. The actors sold it. My heart always races when I watch this.
How many people had a picture of the f14 tomcat when they where a kid awesome fighter 👌
I had a model next to my bed as a kid. Its in the attic at my parents' place now.
Poster, models, toys and everything else I could find.
Yup. Had a poster of one on the wall next to my bed 😂
Shit that pretty lady is my home screen on my phone!!
Actually I had posters of Lita and Trish on my walls. Lol
"I'm gonna hit the brakes, he'll fly right by!"
(Maverick moves the throttle to full afterburner)
physics at its finest
Lmao... been a few years since I saw this but you are completely correct.
Well, if he's about to point the nose of the aircraft straight up, maybe hitting full throttle is not a bad idea :)
protector1990 The idea is to bleed speed. He would want to airbrake in this case, having full afterburners on would simply make the plane climb and would not help in dropping the pursuit. With thrust vectoring it may work, but not on something like the F14.
The F-14's throttle control was different from a traditional fighter. Pulling it back increased throttle, pushing it forward cut power.
Rest In Peace Tony Scott
Can’t think of any other director who would of knocked this out the park. Great 80’s movie
which one was he again?
The only one that comes to mind would have been his older brother, Sir Ridley. Eventually he got his chance to work with Jerry Bruckheimer too on "Black Hawk Down."
oh his died, no wonder top gun 2 was so boring!
Nobody but him could do enough coke to make this movie again
@@MrLincoln75848 He was the younger brother of Sir Ridley Scott, but he made his own fantastic legacy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Scott#Films
Seriously! Anybody else feel for Merlin in this movie??? He got the raw end of the deal with TWO of the best pilots in the Navy totally freaking while flying with him in real life situations!
I guess if you’re Andy Dufresne, stuff like that happens.
Tim Robins was the only actor that didn't puke on his flights in the tomcat
It's no wonder later Merlin really lost his mind many years later when the aliens invaded and Maverick had to put him out himself ;)
he is lucky to be there at all
..."I WAS ON ACTIVE DUTY (NAVY) WHEN THIS MOVIE WAS FILMED (1983-87) ..GO NAVY !!!"
Should I join the Air Force? it looks cool
"FSU_SEMINOLES" thank u for your service
Thankyou for your service!!
..SORRY, THIS IS THE NAVY !
Thank you for your service!
Top Gun had the best dog fighting I have ever seen in a movie.
+UsfanlovesMinho too bad they couldn't get the calls right while fighting(was in the Navy SAR)....and a real fight sounds nothing like this...but it is entertaining..lol
+Maxx Madd The scene becomes downright hilarious when you realize just how wrong they are.
+Maxx Madd Is it more intense or more relaxed? because I understandstand we now have longer ranged missiles and stuff
any fight would be intense,just putting those aircraft thru those maneuvers is nerve-racking at times.
Best dogfighting scenes were from ww2 films...
This one is just so hyped because omg tom cruise.
Even though the sequel was great I still love the 1st one even more. It never gets old.
#2 is a death star ripoff mission . It was ok
Iceman complimented Mav so well. Dude kept his shit together during the worst of it and gave Mav the shot consistently.
How it should have happened:
Seaman: "Both catapults are broken we cant launch anyone"
Captain: son...are you stupid? We have FOUR catapults. Use the other two goddammit.
😂
😂
Yep😂
I was thinking that. Also wondering what kind of fuck-up lets them LOSE multiple catapults at the same time when the ship itself hasn't been fired on.
Push them! Get those turbocnuts off my deck!
God bless the U.S Navy for putting on the best dogfighting scenes in movie history! Just an amazing display
The best tom cruise movie, the best us airforce recruitment tool, and the greatest soundtrack to ever come out of the 1980s. Rest in peace Eddie Van Halen.
It's not EVH, Steve Stevens
And it was Navy not Air Force
Iron Eagle was for the Air Force 😉
I know Maverick gets a lot of credit, but can we talk about the fact Iceman and Slider were about to engage three MIGs on their own with no wingman? That takes courage...and a little insanity. 😅
6, actually.
Barrel roll off the deck.
"God damn it, Maverick!"
how could this guy cut off the flyby!
Easy! smile!.
go low very low
Maybe we cloud do a sidewinder. Smile!.
Oh my god, Maverick, stay on his tail, goddamn it.
This movie is timeless! No matter what they do with the technology, no movie has ever come close when it comes to classic air battles shown in this movie! Totally an all time classic!
Boy do I have a movie for you
I’m from the future
The film was garbage as far as depicting actual air combat maneuvering with missiles.
You need to watch The Battle of Britain or Star Wars A New Hope they both have way more classic air battles
Vengo del futuro, TOP GUN MAVERICK...las mejores secuencias de combates aéreos de la historia del cine
Who here after the top gun 2 trailer?
Saiah smeth yes!! Ha ha
That TomCat though :)
Yea, because I feel the need....
@@sarin82 The need for speed
Yep.
I love when the 5th mig pops up on wolfmans screen out of no where “Wrong!! Make that five!!”
There’s five, sir.
There’s five?!
Yes sir.
I plan on watching this tomorrow to celebrate Memorial Day.
The U.S. Navy still doesn't have a fleet interceptor and air-superiority fighter to rival the F-14 Tomcat's capabilities. The combination AIM-54 Phoenix missile and AN/AWG-9 radar weapons system could track and engage 6 targets simultaneously at a range up to 120 nm. The AIM-54 Phoenix used active tracking in the terminal phase, predating the AIM-120 AMRAAM with this capability by several decades. The latest model of the AMRAAM, the AIM-120D, only approaches the Phoenix in terms of range, without quite matching it (though after decades of development and refinement, the AMRAAM likely does exceed the Phoenix in other areas such as maneuverability, which contribute to probability-of-kill).
The F-14 was not the most maneuverable fighter out there, though was surprisingly agile considering her overall size, likely maxing out at around 6g of load on the airframe (where 9g is the typical all-out for a pure air superiority fighter like the F-15C or MIG-29). However, the advanced tactics taught by the Fighter Weapons School made up for this disparity by ensuring our pilots were the best trained in the world. She brought other capabilities to the table, of course, that no other comparable jet before the F-22 could match, such as time-to-climb performance and intercept speed. All of these attributes together made her the best carrier defender bar none, still unmatched all-around to this day.
Great read Thankyou kindly for sharing 🍺
I will forever love the utterly unnecessary gear-down aileron roll Maverick pulls at launch.
Surely you mean a barrel roll???
DO A BARREL ROLL! ;-p
I don't mind them showing them flexing some american muscle :)
Hahaha
utubenoobie01 There's a difference. A barrel roll is purely for stunting, and it has loops as well as rolls. The one Maverick did was an aileron roll, which is done strategically so you can have a 360 degree view of your surroundings, above, below and beside you.
GTA Kid
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Coming back to this after the long-awaited sequel found some hell of a way to top this 1980's classic.
this is pure cinematography, the music, sound, editing, photography the images get in your head for life, no cgi, practical effects, pure genius
This whole scene is......
"There's a MiG on your tail!"
x100000
4:28 I like to imagine that at this point, though we hear Merlin's voice, Maverick hears Goose's voice just at his shoulder screaming, "GET IN THE FIGHT, MAVERICK!"
Watching this after the top gun maverick trailer
what memmories huh?
Sorry but those helmets make the Russian pilots look bad ass.
John Persons i think the are chinese
I don't recall the Chinese having access to MiGs
Kaihedgie they aren't even MiGs
Of course not, but that's what they are in the script :V
Νίκος Κ. This was when the USSR was our enemy, if it was China, it would be war.
"Our pilots became dependent on missiles, lost some of their dogfighting skills."
Towards end of movie: "Got a problem here, only got 1 missile left."
Ummm...Vulcan cannon?
Multiple attempts that may not take the enemy down, or a guaranteed shot?
@@jdolaktv missiles are not a guaranteed kill and if a vulcan cannon round hits, the plane is usually disabled or destroyed, cause it's usually a lot hitting at once. Dogfighting like they were training would have made them a lot more adept with guns too
They have guns but it's still a problem
Seeing this opening weekend in the big screen was like no other experience as a kid. Still my top 3 movies of all time
REALLY important for the upcoming Top Gun 2, I know they have stressed on no cgi (and so far from the trailers I am VERY pleased) but if there are any dogfight scenes I hope they follow the same example and not use CGI for the explosions and rather use practical effects (such as blowing up model planes) like they did here!
One of the most cheeeeeesiest, most epic and most beautiful masterpieces in the history of 80s American Cinema.
MERLIN: What are you doing? You're slowing down, you're slowing down!
MAVERICK: I'm bringing him in closer, Merlin.
MERLIN: You're gonna do WHAT?
Maverick (using top gun stuff): "I'm bringing him closer Merlin."
Merlin: "WHAT?"
The BEST scene of any 80s film that shows THE best definition of at first, backing down from a fight, but then getting back into the fight and saying, i've got your back, and you've got mine
or using the memories from the loss of a loved one or a dear friend not as a sad reminder to the good old times but instead to inspire u to create even better new memories
@@rikvermar7583 i couldnt've said it better myself sir i mean that whole scene is about, Not Giving Up
@@brettgreene5360 thanks - but on a funny side - who'd want to give up flying 1 of them beasts
Random mountains appear in the background at 0:12 even though they're over the Indian Ocean.
Michael Quindlen Reminds me of Austin Powers. "This place in no way looks like Southern California"
22steve5150 Hah. Of course.
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There probably not mountains. Clouds above the ocean with help from the sun give the impression of mountains. There was another example of it in the actual movie.
I say this with respect👍✌️
+Pow ! Fuck off troll! At least give evidence of why your calling me name dumb ass!
Just remember you waded through 90 minutes of blokes in towels, people playing volleyball and Berlins 'Take my Breath Away' to get to this. :D
+Mike Everest You mean I GOT to wade through 90 minutes of that.
@@weglarz that's right
Hahaha
The best scene from any 80s film that shows the BEST definition of backing down at first, but then getting back into the fight and then saying,I've got your back you've got mine"
I've watched this so many times and still.....still get goose bumps.
"Talk to me Goose.... bumps."
Roger that!
"We got 4 in our tail, that makes six of em" No shit Slider, you should realized that when Wolfman called out 5. Everyone knows MiGs travel in pairs.
The spin off the aircraft carrier is the best part of the whole movie. Love it.
This movie will always hold a special place in my heart just to bad the last F-14 squadron was decommissioned a few months before I made it to the fleet!
Hollywood, never ever remake this masterpiece..
What a movie.. wow..
Got something to tell you
You need to hear something... you might need to sit down.
Its not a remake guys, its a sequel
A sequel is fine. A remake would be doo-doo. This is a classic film that was FILMED, not CGI’d to death. Look at and learn from Red Dawn, that remake stunk.
this aged well.
Ice waas defenitly the well deserved winner of top gun. Amazing how he survived that mig soup after wood went down, and continously was able to evade missle shots and gunfire the entire fight. That dude has some skillz.
Dueville7777 all without flares
You sir are spot on!! Ice was the shit!! True too his name and nature!!
I especially loved the reverse scissors he pulled off
Somehow holding off 6 MiGs while Maverick needed 30 seconds to arrive, doze off due to jetwash, then let's him blast 3 MiGs on 4 shots. How did MiG #6 arrive out of nowhere?
Agree!
On Ace Combat 04, during one of the last missions, there was an enemy on my tail and he was close enough to use his guns. So I pulled Maverick's maneuver and it actually worked. Blew that a-hole outta the sky!
I bet the theme from this film was played in your head after?!
"YOU GONNA DO WHAT ?!"
That's really cool that you say that!!! I was watching the making of Top Gun here on youtube and one of the real Naval aviators who worked on the movie (call sign "Flex") talked about the aileron rolls in real life and how it had no tatical advantage. He just said that spinning around looked really cool for the movie and the makers of the movie loved so they did it a lot. However the fact that you did in basically a simulated dog fight even though it was just a video game and it gave you an advantage...that's kinda cool to hear.
Like they most likely have ever been in a real air battle... the USA NEVER usually picks a fight with a nation with much of an air force. All they have done is played too a half written game plan never been in a fight.
TheGroundedAviator topgun@
Hollywood and wolfman has a great view of this from the ocean
This is my morning motivation. Nearest I can figure as a housewife, if iceman can survive a 1v6 dogfight for 3-4 minutes, I can get out of bed and get my housework done. I know it may sound like a joke but it's not. My depression makes doing even easy tasks hard, so I take whatever I can get to motivate.
Hang in Jessica. It's okay not to feel okay all the time. Take care of your family AND yourself. Please. You have too much to offer the world not to be firing on all cylinders.Baby steps. Doctors, medicine, yoga, whatever. The sun will rise tomorrow I promise. I've been there girl
@@BULL.173 ....and some 'expert' advice from a very hopeful white knight!!
The lil things love take it easy
Exactly why I'm here, high-school student tho, ice is really helping through school lol
I have the same issue with depression and anxiety. The guitar theme from this movie helps me get to work in the morning.
Fun fact- Merlin is played by the same actor who played Andy Dufresne in Shawshank Redemption. Don't know if anyone cares, just thought that was interesting tidbit of information.
+lorderik237 Tim Robbins I think. He's good in Mystic River too.
+Bob Ramsey (superbram) Yeah, he's a dipshit liberal but a pretty good actor.
Fun Fact- Tom Cruise kills him in War of the Worlds. Which was kind of hard to believe since Robbins is 6'5" and Tom Cruise is nearly a foot shorter and tiny.
+Elthenar a lot of actors are dipshit libs
+lorderik237 Yes I knew that, 2 of my top 3 favorite movies of all time. Forrest Gump is #1
+lorderik237 It's not fun being Mavericks co-pilot. He flies by the seat of his pants. Completely unpredictable!!
the F-14 was my favorite navy aircraft of all time
so sexy that plane and powerful
Bill Scott same mate
was ? is it still not your favourit ?
Alan Yesilipek of course it is
I will always love General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon. Such a beauty!
1:33 ....goosebumps every time. I cant describe it, but for me there is no other plane which is that badass like the big F-14.
Ice never once turns his head to look back to confirm when Slider informs him about the position of the enemy crafts or tells him to do something. He has complte faith in the judgement of his RIO. Thats why they were the topgun and how they were able to evade so many enemy jets while waiting for backup to arrive.
Maverick and Iceman greatest movie Bromance of all time
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Kevin Carey
Marlin
volleyball.....
Let us all commemorate a big 30th anniversary to this film today.
indeed in an era with an aircraft ahead of its time, and when go pro have yet to exist. In memory of Art Scholl
Jake Rutigliano you are gay
Why should we it was and is crap.
Jake Rutigliano the year i was born
Превет.
All else aside, getting into a dogfight must be one of the most intense experiences anyone could live through.
"Bullshit 10 minutes, this thing will be over in 2 minutes get out of here" the commander always makes me laugh they way he swears in this movie 🤣
I wonder how this movie would have ended if Peppy from Star Fox was instructing these guys.
"Do a barrel roll!"
"Roger that!"
*proceeds to spin out and crash*
***** Assuming you are using the correct terminology, a barrel roll would be a good move, if you meant "Aileron Roll" that would do nothing.
***** That would be a pretty decent rap battle, Fox vs Maverick.
+ethanwdp hahah I love watching special features and hearing from the Top gun graduate about how useless a 'barrell roll' actually is in combat.
"I'm bringing him in closer Merlin."
"You're gonna do WHAT?!!"
Great line!
The F-14 Tomcat was the star of the movie
Can't get enough of this clip...the real world test of the skills they've been honing over the whole movie.
Jimmy Two Times from Goodfellas should've been a Top Gun pilot.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Im gonna switch to guns switch to guns
I still remember watching this as a kid.
After people exited the cinema, some turned right around and bought tickets for the next showing, and that was a Record Year for military recruiting!
Just when you realize this movie inspired an entire generation of kids to become fighter pilots.
2:55 ''Both catapults are broken, we can't launch at aircraft yet sir...'' Funny, I thought US carriers had FOUR catapults as standard!?!?
that and they had JUST LAUNCHED ONE so unless that went out of order all of a sudden...
lol such nonsense.
1:55 you can see they have ACFT stacked up on Cats 1 & 2. Would have taken a lot of time to re-spot them, especially if they needed to send them down the elevators.
Former ABE here, rate that operates the cats. First like the other guy said the bow was covered in parked aircraft. Can't launch from cats 1 and 2. Second, equipment breaks. Seen it many times.
@Alexander Eberbach It was the Enterprise.
Besides even if the carrier cant launch any more jets and the MiGs reach them, the carrier must likely have escort ships with SAMs and CIWS. I dont see anti-ship missiles on the MiGs either.
F-14 Tomcat. My pretty lady. i miss old girl.
how long did u fly her?
as a kid my favourite plane was the tomcat currently i prefer ww1 planes idk what is wrong with me
The navy needs an air interceptor u do not currently have an air interceptor and plz dont say the fa 18 is an air interceptor. The f14 in my opinion will always be the best air interceptor of the us navy with so many confirmed and unconfirmed mig kills.
@@demonlordomegaacepilot7090 there's no need for an interceptor (a borderline obsolete concept) when you have rhinos with bags carrying aim-120d's and DDG's with SM-6's
@@ArizonaAstraLLC thats not accurate. Thats mid 90s early 2000s thinking. With Long range a ti ship missiles you need aircraft that can intercept out at sea before enemy aircraft get close enough to deploy. SM6 have short range. You need something to fly out 300 nmi then engage
Iceman might have gotten the top spot but Maverick got the most saves and a free pass to the next movie.
Literally the greatest scene from the greatest movie of all time. Absolutely glorious!
Sonny Crockett.
Maverick.
Almost every man in the 80's wished to be one of these.
Crockett for sure
And John McClane
Don't forget Martin Riggs.
And John Matrix
This movie still makes me want to be fighter pilot! Honestly supersonic, aerial, fights to the death might be the single most intense activity that humans have ever endeavored. What else competes? Space travel, land speed records, wing suit dives, etc. all extremely bad ass -- but this is that level of excitement plus mortal combat.
Yes it is. That's make lufe fun😅
It’s funny 😁 to me how Maverick said on the count of 3 break hard right then he started counting backwards also he told he to break right anyway after he finished counting like Iceman didn’t know how to count lol 😆
I have seen this movie at 200 times and still it’s one the best movies in my collection 👍
It's funny , one of the best most patriotic American military movies ever made was by a British director .
"Launch maverick on alert-5"...the look in Mavericks eyes & that music...shit just got real, gives me chills
I love how the movie just glosses over about how they started WWIII
Take a look at the Gulf of Sidar incident back in 1989. 2 Mig 21 vs. 2 F-14 Tomcats off the Kennedy. The video of the Tomcats shooting down both Mig's is on UA-cam. It took 25 years before we ever found out who the pilots and RIO's were.
Actually, the Navy gave the producers of Top Gun a lot of access and support, and in exchange they mandated several changes to the script. One of those changes was to remove any mention of Russian or Soviet pilots as being the 'aggressors' in the final sequence. So we're left to assume what we will about the identity of the 'enemy' forces, since it's not explicitly stated. And given the year the movie was released, the best assumption would be that they were either Libyan or Iranian.
+youdoitillwatch They were supposed to be North Korean I believe.
North Korea still fly bi-planes.
CaboWabo70517 Along with MiG-21s
8:21-8:27 "You're gonna do WHAATT!?!?" lmao
I watched this movie a million times growing up and if my mom was in the room when Merlin says that she would just start laughing. It was just such a great line to throw in there in an intense action scene like that. LOL
8:24 I love the look on Merlin's face!
"You're gonna do WHAT?!"
Lol!
When Maverick first encounters this final dogfight scene, the naval aviators are pulling off a maneuver called, "rolling scissors". If you're able to watch this in slo-mo, it really looks like 2 or 3 pairs of opened scissors rolling around each other, following a triangular pattern. There's one other time in the movie when you see this text book maneuver
Yep, if you watched the show "Dogfights" on the history channel, on one episode the pilots from the Vietnam War era that are being interviewed on that show talks about that maneuver a lot. Top Gun stole a lot of textbook maneuvers from the Vietnam War era pilots that they used in dogfighting during the Vietnam War including the "Hit The Brakes" maneuver.
@@shawnwomack3446 Wasn't there a version where you hit the brakes, you do a barrel spin halfway though to track and lock on to the enemy almost immediately after he passes underneath?
Too close for guns, switching to missiles!
Fox hound Hollywood tech-ignorance humor :)
+BasementEngineer Out of range for missiles, switching to verbal insults. Too close for guns, switching to fists.
Bill Mason Hehehehe :)
MiG on your six! Deploying lawyers!
I've got tone, switching to Sparrows.
starfleethastanks This could go on indefinitely :)
This sequence would be green screened to shit today. This was filmmaking.
It WAS green screened back then :D
Tom Cruise etc got to fly couple times with the F-14 to get the experience and talks with the pilots to get to the character (check out the video about that) and they had very limited amount of the footage about these aircrafts doing maneuvers etc, why they repeat them very much in the movie.
And the movie would have been boring if it would have been realistic, as all those barrel rolls etc are useless in real dogfight, but it looks cool....
Bruh, u think Tom cruise is a real pilot?? U think they are really up in the air flying like that?? It is green screen.... did u mean to say CGI or something?
Bruh, Tom Cruise is a real pilot
cgi'd
Ch33zyBreadTrellie lol they took in flight, even had to voice over most of his lines because he couldn’t handle the g’a
I watched this in theater on a Friday night. Monday morning I went to my recruiter and joined. After basic I was assigned to the USS Theodore Roosevelt just a month after she was commissioned. Did 4 years as an Aviation Ordnaceman 3rd class in the G-3 Division of the weapons department which are called "mag rats" because we worked in the weapons magazines down in the lower decks. Got out just as Desert Storm began. Some of my fondest memories were from those 4 years.
Thank you for your service!
My first husband was in the Navy, 6 years on the Richard E. Byrd. No flying. He worked the radar, and thank God, no wars.
Our only daughter was born during that time, and I'm still mad that he didn't take one month leave, as I knew I was going to go a little early. He missed it by only a few days, and instead, I had the 'honor' of my mother-in-law 'down there'. Oh God. She kept telling me not to push as the contractions were intensifying, and I was about ready to scream shut up! Lol It was a girl, my only child after 2 marriages, but I have 6 grandchildren, so I'm happy. She did me proud.
This movie changed my life. And for the record.....ICEMAN KILLED GOOSE. UNINTENTIONLY.
4:08
Slider: God Damn It! Maverick's disengaging!
Iceman: I knew it! Shit!
Stinger: GOD DAMN IT, MAVERICK!!
8:25 You're gonna do WHAT?!
Looks like Hollywood didn't learn anything at the Top Gun school. 🤣😂
I love listening to this while I’m driving as much as I love to watch it ❤ Lucky me has someone who sends me Top Gun and Maverick clips 😊