Top Gun: Maverick (Top Gun 2 is comin)

[JB0]

That is fantastic and I hope it happens.

[Wolf-1]

21 hours ago, David Hingtgen said:

Call sign Gander...

What's good enough for the Goose is good enough for the......   Too soon?  Was about to say AFLAC has been, "serving the military for over 75 years," but that is Geico.

[davidwhangchoi]

All the details we know about the upcoming 'Top Gun' sequel starring Tom Cruise

[peter]

I hope they get the bad guy fighters right this time around.

[slide]

10 minutes ago, peter said:

I hope they get the bad guy fighters right this time around.

LOL! Mig-28 forever!!

I would like a more accurate HUD...

Edited August 24, 2018 by slide

[TangledThorns]

I didn't care for Tom Cruise in his early days of the 1980s but he gets better as he gets older. Watched Rain Man today for the first time in decades that made me appreciate him more now.

Spoiler

K-Mart sucks

 

Edited August 24, 2018 by TangledThorns

[mechaninac]

On 8/2/2018 at 1:06 AM, David Hingtgen said:

Call sign Gander...

That's funny .  Gosling would work too...

[AN/ALQ128]

https://revengeofthefans.com/2018/09/12/exclusive-see-mavericks-plane-in-these-top-gun-maverick-set-photos/

Some pics of Maverick's F-18.

Pretty attractive paint job in my opinion. Just enough color to stand out, but not over the top.

[505thAirborne]

[Dobber]

So he shot down 3 F/A-18’s??

Chris

[big F]

Mmmmm slightly Macross feel to it I think.

[David Hingtgen]

9 hours ago, Dobber said:

So he shot down 3 F/A-18’s??

Chris

::cough MiG-33's cough::   I'm sure they'll be F-18A's painted in shark-camo, and the audience can't tell them from an 18F...

[Roy Focker]

I wonder if they'll have him doing a stunt where he's outside his fighter jet trying to launch a missile by kicking it loose.

[Dobber]

10 hours ago, David Hingtgen said:

::cough MiG-33's cough::   I'm sure they'll be F-18A's painted in shark-camo, and the audience can't tell them from an 18F...

Lol, yeah probably....though that would be REALLY bad. At least Top Gun used easily noticeably different aircraft for the MiG’s in that movie.

Chris

edit: How many victories did Maverick have in the first movie? I can’t remember. Was it 3? If so the the silhouette’s are wrong.

Edited September 15, 2018 by Dobber

[slide]

On 9/14/2018 at 5:08 PM, David Hingtgen said:

::cough MiG-33's cough::   I'm sure they'll be F-18A's painted in shark-camo, and the audience can't tell them from an 18F...

*COUGH*MiG-28's...

[Marzan]

Are Kenny Loggins and Berlin coming back for the sequel?

[TangledThorns]

6 hours ago, Marzan said:

Are Kenny Loggins and Berlin coming back for the sequel?

I expect a Dangerzone remix by Taylor Swift.

[kalvasflam]

On 9/14/2018 at 3:08 PM, David Hingtgen said:

::cough MiG-33's cough::   I'm sure they'll be F-18A's painted in shark-camo, and the audience can't tell them from an 18F...

No I think he shot down 3xF-18s.  Maverick's training methods.   If you can dodge a sidewinder, you can dodge a ball....

I'm really curious on how they will portray Iceman.  I wonder if we can get some real opposition this time, SU-37s, may be Mig 29s.  They can be Russian or North Koreans, but not Chinese, because the China movie market is huge... 

[Sanity is Optional]

9 minutes ago, kalvasflam said:

I wonder if we can get some real opposition this time, SU-37s, may be Mig 29s.  They can be Russian or North Koreans, but not Chinese, because the China movie market is huge... 

Iranian... F-14s 

[kalvasflam]

OMG, that was so obvious.    You can even have Maverick with quippy lines like "I used to fly those."

[Sanity is Optional]

From the blurb about manned fighter planes in an era of drones, I'm half-expecting them to go Macross Plus on this and have him dogfight an AI controlled drone.

[Chronocidal]

So.. what you're saying is we should merge franchises, and this is actually Stealth II?  

Now that just reminds me of someone's suggested Jurassic Park far-future sequel:

Quote

Millions of years in the future, the dinosaurs have taken over the world, and driven humanity to extinction.

Somewhere in a secret lab, the dinosaur geneticists discover human DNA in a mosquito.

SURPRISE!  It's Jeff Goldblum's DNA!  But they can't separate the human DNA from the mosquito DNA.

DOUBLE SURPRISE!! It's now a sequel to The Fly!!

 

Edited September 17, 2018 by Chronocidal

[David Hingtgen]

22 hours ago, slide said:

*COUGH*MiG-28's...

Nah, can't be -28's, the audience needs something newer, with a higher number, to be impressed.  Gotta be at least MiG-30's or something.   

And just wait---this will turn out to only be Maverick's FIRST plane.  By the end of the movie, he'll get a new FB-18H Super DUPER Hornet. With FAST packs:

 

[kalvasflam]

17 hours ago, David Hingtgen said:

Nah, can't be -28's, the audience needs something newer, with a higher number, to be impressed.  Gotta be at least MiG-30's or something.   

And just wait---this will turn out to only be Maverick's FIRST plane.  By the end of the movie, he'll get a new FB-18H Super DUPER Hornet. With FAST packs:

 

Is that thing carrying all those pods at once?   I guess I can see that, mount two over the wings, two more on the FAST pack, two under the wing, and what the hell, that thing on the centerline could make it seven.  Let's see, if we take option one, six pods equals to 24xAMRAAMs.  Itano circus anyone?

Although that needs to happen  before his backseater activates the centerline pods and call for the drones.  

[Sanity is Optional]

I think the thing mounted under the centerline is the pod.

[spacemanoeuvres]

On 9/14/2018 at 10:17 PM, Roy Focker said:

I wonder if they'll have him doing a stunt where he's outside his fighter jet trying to launch a missile by kicking it loose.

Lol holy sh!t this had me rolling hahaha

[Sildani]

It can carry one pod on the centerline and one under each wing. 

[JB0]

3 hours ago, Sildani said:

It can carry one pod on the centerline and one under each wing. 

Then the Navy isn't trying hard enough. That's a hard cap of 21 missiles. Barely enough for one shot.

Edited September 19, 2018 by JB0

[kalvasflam]

Exactly, they need to be able to mount at least seven of those pods to make it worth while.  Like I said, two over the FAST pack tanks on the Rhinos, may be two more on top of the wings, and two beneath.  Then the cernerline pod.  Please remember, we're talking Hollywood here, you can never have enough missile pods or missiles, or Mig 28s.   And by the way, why is this a Navy fighter without carrying Harpoons or SLAM-ERs.

Just utterly unconscionable, next you'll tell me that the air launched Tomahawks are too big to fit into those pods.  

[AN/ALQ128]

2 hours ago, kalvasflam said:

Exactly, they need to be able to mount at least seven of those pods to make it worth while.  Like I said, two over the FAST pack tanks on the Rhinos, may be two more on top of the wings, and two beneath.  Then the cernerline pod.  Please remember, we're talking Hollywood here, you can never have enough missile pods or missiles, or Mig 28s.   And by the way, why is this a Navy fighter without carrying Harpoons or SLAM-ERs.

Just utterly unconscionable, next you'll tell me that the air launched Tomahawks are too big to fit into those pods.  

And then it needs a railgun pod when the drones activate mega-ultra ECM.

 

[JB0]

I don't think it has even ONE micromissile cluster launcher. Never gonna stop a zentradi attack that way. It is like they never even WATCHED Macross before they designed this thing. 

[electric indigo]

Just wait until the orbital laser kicks in...

[Wolf-1]

4 hours ago, electric indigo said:

Just wait until the orbital laser kicks in...

So Val isn't reprising the "Iceman" role but instead is tied to the project under the name "Chris Knight"?

[sh9000]

[big F]

3 hours ago, sh9000 said:

At least he got a new bike.