Inside The Real Top Gun Training School

[@loose-arrow-garage]

Those F-16's are older Block 15 models that were originally bought by Pakistan. When they failed to comply by the terms of a nuclear arms agreement the aircraft sale was denied and those brand new, at the time F-16's were stored in the Bone yard at Davis-Monthan AFB for several years. The U.S. Navy eventually got their hands on them to use as aggressors in the Top Gun training.

[@slavakulishko3771]

F-14 were designated for Iran and then Islamic revolution happened.

[@kbng02]

Oh.. thanks for explaining that. For a moment I was scratching my head... F-16's, Navy, what?

[@umar166farooq]

​@@TonySaju77 yes, flown by Amitabh bachan 😂.. typical indian war hysteria fueled by Indian media.

[@raadmissile7232]

Yes screw you guys for that set of hypocrisy cuz you posses nuclear arms yourself and Israel built them under your nose

[@PresidentEvil]

@@TonySaju77 only in bollywood fantasy movies 😂

[@williamegan6756]

Great to see some focus on the real Top Gun. I was particularly impressed by the humility and dedication shown by these, the true naval aviators. Heroes all.

[@Dandelion49]

I was born and raised in Fallon, Nevada and grew up watching jets from the Fallon Naval Station flying over. In the 1980's I worked at the Fallon Naval Station for Morrison Knutson, contractor for the physical facilities maintenance. I was responsible for the non secure telecommunications and utility accounting. It was an extremely interesting and responsible job and got to see some very interesting things. I remember when the SR71 Blackbird was being decommissioned and one sat at the base for a couple days. We could only see it from a distance but what an awesome thing that was to experience. I moved to Oregon in 1992, but still miss hearing the jets overhead and sometimes wish I could still live in Fallon for many reasons. There is nothing quite like living where you can see "forever" and to watch those jets fly across the Nevada skies.

[@Bella.1310]

Is dark star a real plane? Sorry for asking.

[@intouchkhaoviset9155]

​@@Bella.1310 It is a Fictional Plane There is one that looks similiar : SR-72

[@TrueBagPipeRock]

I put off seeing the movie and finally saw it and it was truly great. I give it a ten and I bailed on Hollywood. Walked out of this movie feeling really good which cannot be said for the other movies I've seen in recent years.

[@franklinholbrook924]

1000% percent in agreement with you. Well said.

[@iamhardwell2844]

just finish the movie its fantastic

[@RocketPropelledGuy]

Yeah it was a weird experience, I forgot that at one time new movies weren't almost exclusively dripping with propaganda. I gotta be honest, I didn't enjoy it as much as everyone else because I knew which parts were totally preposterous. I did, on the whole, enjoy it anyway.

[@viperfan881]

" no other plane like it" Air Force Fighter Weapons School: "And so I took that personally"

[@matthutchings1988]

I live 5 miles away from the home of Top Gun. Born and raised, I’m so proud of that.

[@GT-mn3bx]

The original for decades was at Miramar.

[@matthutchings1988]

@@GT-mn3bx that was its original home.

[@kevinrichards3288]

RIP Tony Scott & Don Simpson who were the director "Tony Scott" & producer "Don Simpson" of the first Top Gun movie.

[@audiolover]

Yeah it was too much for Don Simpson to handle, all that fame and cash...

[@kevinrichards3288]

@@audiolover Don had over 20 different kinds of drugs including marijuana & cocaine inside his system at the time of his death & they were all there at the same time which was unbelievable. Also he had at least $1,000 worth of prescription drugs inside his cabinet at his home. He was only 52 years old when he died. Tony committed suicide by jumping off the Vincent Thomas Bridge & was only 68 years old when he intentionally ended his own life.

[@B1rdTheW0rd]

Imagine going to watch Top Gun as a Top Gun graduate or Instructor. Surreal.

[@geofreyr]

why would it be surreal? probably just more like very entertaining, but definitely not surreal..

[@billscott356]

F-16's, shown over and over again, never go out to the boat. They are not in the OpNav. They are in the TopGun aggressor squadron. There was little video of the F/A-18E or -F or the F-35C that would be in TopGun now.

[@georgekraus9357]

After this movie Top Gun II, the Navy's Top Gun school will have to upgrade their classes to match Tom Cruise ... LOL

[@Silversmok3]

“There’s no other place like it in the world” . USAF Fighter Weapons School- are we a joke to U?

[@maciedixon3983]

Not top gun. Unfortunately you didn’t get the Hollywood treatment lol

[@scotchsoda3165]

@@maciedixon3983 long before TG, "Red Flag" was a TV movie.

[@alex8fish]

Yes, you are

[@cabledad65]

Kinda disappointed that Fallon isn't even mentioned in the movie. Almost like the studio forgot it moved to Fallon after Miramar was turned over to the Marines. I guess Fallon isn't as sexy of a location as San Diego.

[@geofreyr]

well, because the movie is fake, it's hollywood, so they're only gonna include the real life bits that are exciting to an audience, so only a few real facts.

[@waynemitchell1076]

I'm still holding out hope for a 3rd Hot Shots movie 😏

[@stanstanlison5791]

Hot Shots Trinity

[@scotchsoda3165]

Hot Shots Tres Amigos!

[@M85331]

Tom Cruise would be too old to fly

[@stanstanlison5791]

@@M85331 Looks like someone is too young to get the reference 🤭

[@waynemitchell1076]

@@M85331 Hi mate. I'm pretty sure Tom wasn't in either of the first two Hot Shots. Charlie Sheen on the other hand .....??

[@pkmathome1500]

My college buddy from was in the program in the AF (near vegas i think?) He & partner came out the best air-air pilot in the world. Got to fly an f15 at less than 100ft at mach 1

[@yellowdogadventures]

Exercise is called RED FLAG it is held at Nellis AFB in North Las Vegas. I have been there several times.

[@katherinee.1213]

Awesome to see, God bless these brave men and women in uniform

[@geofreyr]

I wouldn't call them brave, maybe occasionally some of them might show bravery, like in combat, but not here in this context.

[@Straight_Dave]

If he doesn’t have a mustache he’s not a Top Gun instructor

[@scrotum5414]

none of the instructors have mustaches

[@michaelwoods4495]

F-16s and F-5s are not naval aircraft, though they might be used as adversaries in training. When I did it the adversary aircraft were A-4s. It's pretty cool, but there's nothing other fleet aviators don't do. They just do it as their concentration within naval aviation.

[@GORILLA_PIMP]

Man they sure don't look like the tom cruise gang lol

[@jokerfleckcast3196]

@@Chad_Max did it turn you on

[@jokerfleckcast3196]

@@Chad_Max who gives a shit.

[@adlerzwei]

But they are badass nonetheless. 🫡😎

[@djsmith2871]

The commander looks like he's 16!! Impressive people to be that young and so good. Keep in mind they work their @$$ off when there. 14hr+ days, almost 7 days a week. Fun lifestyle but not without sacrifice.

[@Vet0714]

@@Chad_Max anyone who’s ever served in the armed forces will admit it’s a very homoerotic environment. Especially the US Navy 😂

[@jaybdub77]

Wow. They named the air filed after Jimmy Fallon.

[@aviation-action]

Awesome movie! Have to see it on IMAX!

[@bill2953]

What are you, 14?

[@aviation-action]

@@bill2953 no…. Are you?

[@bill2953]

@@aviation-action Sorry no insult intended. The move is clearly not for a thinking audience which is cool, we need those too. It's just so damn corny and pretentious I literally couldn't get through it with its Mission Impossible plot and the soap opera love affair. But that's just me.

[@47drift]

@@bill2953 If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.

[@bill2953]

@@47drift Just saw a headline the NFL Panthers now have a trans man on the cheerlleading squad. I'm not making this up, that's where this world is heading. He/she looks like one of the queens from the original Longest Yard..And so what if I think it's absurd, what diff does it make? None right..

[@themysterioussoul1970]

In the movie top gun Marverick you could already see that there were pilots from top gun itself to fly for the actors who were in the back, only the aircraft at the end was Tom himself I thought but what an avaring and difference with the top gun from (1986 movie) with everything thanks to the real top gun for borrowing and participating 💕💕💕

[@mandyfox9376]

Why is Top Gun at NAS North Island in the new movie and not at NAS Fallon 🤔

[@JonHuhnMedical]

My guess would be mood, visual appeal, consistency with first movie (California, anyway), etc.

[@jenniferwise8515]

Since I was stationed at NASNI, they did it to honor me!!

[@scotchsoda3165]

Because NAS North Island isn't surrounded by legal brothels!

[@cabledad65]

@@scotchsoda3165 neither is Fallon. Apparently you have never been out to that part of Nevada.

[@scotchsoda3165]

@@cabledad65 California, 164,000 square miles with zero legal brothels. Nevada, 104,000 square miles with 21 legal brothels. An hour drive is not that far in Nevada.............

[@starshipcaptain4753]

Haven't see Top Gun 2 yet but I am sure it will be exciting. Wish TOPGUN naval academy transitioned to F35C so we could have seen that aircraft in the movie. No disrespect to the venerable F/A-18Super Hornet which is a huge improvement over F/A-18 I just would love to see the best and highest tech aircraft go.

[@Case16710]

The reason they didn’t use F35’s is because they are single seaters and the storyline plays very heavily on pilot/RIO relationships. That’s why they chose the F/A-18.

[@starshipcaptain4753]

@@Case16710 Makes perfect sense! I guess no 2 seat F35 trainers?

[@Case16710]

@@starshipcaptain4753 I don’t want to give away any spoilers, but there is a plot reason why they couldn’t use the F-35 and chose the F/A-18. I really loved the movie. Just had to enjoy it for what it is, and suspend my disbelief. It’s not a documentary. It’s Top Gun!

[@starshipcaptain4753]

@@Case16710 Can't wait and I'm not even a Tom Cruise fan boy but the original was pretty memorable

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

@@Case16710 despite that, the F35C does appear in the movie. Only in the intro credits.

[@billwong7420]

Top Gun movie is a fake. You guys are real and Blue angels are real.I salute you as retired USAF Sargent.

[@brandonchilds4742]

Why are they flying F16's? Seems like they got their footage mixed up

[@atmosfear3314]

They are aggressors, that's why they all have those paint schemes, to represent MiGs and Sukhois. They're in the same squadron as the rest of the F18s.

[@Ktaurus26]

Navy uses f-16s at top gun only

[@brandonchilds4742]

Good to know, thanks

[@joesmith201212]

they fly what ever they need to.... you think the enemy will stop and say oh ok ok you don't know my plane.... I apologize I will go land and take off and only engage you in planes you are familiar with. give me a break man!

[@JeffScott-1978]

There's no way she's a Top Gun instructor. No mustache!

[@hughmacdonald3595]

Skip. Vapid reporting which is actually an ad for a movie.

[@marcheskitv]

Thanks for the observation Captain Obvious.

[@hughmacdonald3595]

@@marcheskitv lol

[@rzero21]

Mostly what I saw in the video, were aggressors... those F-16 are not part of the Navy.

[@user-my6pn8ih2p]

Bravo ACE USN👍💐🌲🍮☕

[@atmosfear3314]

1:33 Lieutenant but has Captain insignia? Is this a normal thing or am I missing something here? I'm Air Force, so not sure if it's a Navy thing either.

[@corey4059]

dude.... as a VETERAN, you should know rank structure of other branches... a little at least. O3 in Navy and Marine Corps is Lieutenant... O3 in Airforce is Captain. Same collar devices.... you must be new to the Air Force....

[@atmosfear3314]

@@corey4059 Yes I am, I make it plainly obvious. Thank you for correcting me.

[@corey4059]

@@atmosfear3314 boot camp covers this... at least in the Navy it did.

[@atmosfear3314]

@@corey4059 Mine didn't, only Air Force and Army. There was a poster on our wall that had all of the branches ranks but it wasn't a part of our curriculum

[@hudsondonnell444]

An O-3 in the US Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps is a Captain. An O-3 in the US Navy and Coast Guard is Lieutenant.

[@kenmasonj4812]

COOL!!!!

[@EthanpSax]

Pov: The thumbnail has F-16s. Which are airforce jets. Not navy jets. LMAO

[@CoyoteFallsForge]

Navy aggressor squadrons (the "bad guys" at Top Gun) fly F-5s, F/A-18s...and F-16s. Look closely at the video and you'll see "NAVY" stenciled on the F-16s.

[@drttrus]

a few minutes of googling shows those -16's are used as aggressor aircraft, very common practice at both USN and USAF weapons schools. hell, they even have NAVY painted on the side of them.

[@bill2953]

@@drttrus You're 100% correct but what can you expect from a Top Gun audience, inteligence? Hahaha not likely.

[@JXiong-zo8ig]

BEST MOVIE OF THE YEAR!!!!!

[@dysonneo175]

Naaa top gun age will end soon.... Now drone gun era is coming

[@scotchsoda3165]

Top Drone Fighter Weapons School! Which AI will be invited back to be an instructor?

[@ajjr8847]

Just not today.lol

[@iain8837]

Tarmac????

[@rolfinator37]

Interesting. Those are F16 which there's no variant for navy only airforce. And the flag on the aircraft are airforce emblems. Airforce doesn't have top gun only navy. Little confused with this clip.

[@RW-zn8vy]

there is the F16N was made for the Navy and that's what you see in the video

[@scotchsoda3165]

Red Flag: Am I A Joke To You?

[@steveh5005]

Very weak and rushed report. He didnt cover most of the detail. Those jets were the enemy aggressor squadron. F5s, Vipers...and they could also have shown the gun camera of F4 Phantoms dog fighting Viet MIG 17s and 21s. The reason for top gun school back in 1970s. Was the lost skill set of dog fighting. Not just engagements with missles. Not impressed

[@265justy]

Gun camera..!! Navy Phantoms carried no gun...

[@jeffrachau3920]

And we are right back to where we started. These young people today and their "dogfighting is a thing of the past" drives me crazy. These pilotless wonder weapons are bullshit. Every boy and girl dreams of getting into a fighter plane and going against another pilot. Proving yourself,who's better. Flying a plane like you just stole it"with your hair on fire. Dammit. Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. And we do. I get more pissed off than my nearly 60 mind should.

[@wshakes3661]

Yea whats up with all the F16s. I do love me some Vipers, perhaps my fav fighter but this is Navy ie F18s

[@divecolosio4988]

Ah! They're aggressor aircrafts (sporting those camouflage schemes), they were to play bad guys in the training, so it's adds to the realism to certain degree by flying aircrafts that differs to their actual field service, though the agressors do also flies F/A-18s as well.

[@arthurrogers2289]

Don't tell rusia, china

[@emileblanche5868]

Iran

[@anwarzikry2135]

They already knew...

[@sweeptheleg.]

You don't think they already know this stuff? C'mon man, don't be naive and if you're not, don't start.

[@zoolue4388]

why is everyone on the comments pro fighter jet pilots

[@timothythomas2544]

Here is a little history for individuals that are fans of the movies Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick. The first Top Gun competition was held in 1949. The white pilots competed with the latest state of art aircraft while the African-American pilots were forced to compete with older obsolete planes. After 3 days of competition The Tuskegee Airmen team of : Captain Alva Temple, 1st Lieutenant Harry Stewart, 1st Lieutenant James Harvey, and 1st Lieutenant Halbert Alexander (alternate) were announced the winners. There was dead silence in the room. Not one of their colleagues applauded this accomplishment. The victory was swept under the rug and the trophy was not seen by the public for 55 years. Introducing the real Top Guns.

[@Blackmoon9u9]

Are those F 16' From the air force or navy jet's

[@homerfry9234]

Yep, those are Air Force F-16's

[@waba4115]

the navy doesnt have f16's

[@vivek27789]

They are Navy's...Navy has few F-16's for its aggressor role especially at TOPGUN.

[@vivek27789]

@@waba4115 Navy does have a few for its aggressor/adversary role training at Fallon.

[@djsmith2871]

@@waba4115 Why comment when you clearly don't know? 2:18 F-16 "50" has markings clearly visible. A) TopGun patch and flash on the tail fin. B) NAWDC on the ventral fin C) "NAVY" on the spine. Next time you may want to do some homework before enlightening the world with inaccuracies.

[@Grumbledookvid]

woah they're so skilled, dropping bombs on sheepherders.

[@andrew3084]

🤓

[@288theabe]

Since when did the navy get F16s?

[@RW-zn8vy]

a long long time ago, they made the f16n

[@rkreutzer62]

The first one delivered to Miramar in 1986@@RW-zn8vy

[@mandyfox9376]

Fly Navy ❤

[@csma6950]

The amount of money these aircrafts burn up everyday must be colossal

[@allenblack3785]

Not a fraction of what goes to Federal welfare, prisons and corrections, public housing, food stamps, etc.

[@geofreyr]

yes you're right, every single one has to be absolutely perfect so constant top to bottom maintenance to ensure perfection. Apparently upwards of around 10k USD per flight hour and something like 200 - 300 hours per year for each plane. Therefore 2 million per year to run just one F16 (excluding purchase price of course), 1500 fighters in USAF, so 3 billion? Then there's all the other planes of course, then the Navy, etc etc. Mind-boggling money.

[@engchoontan8483]

number of times singapore blah blah blah attended and number of times yadda yadda yadda till americans are sore

[@engchoontan8483]

same with your ivy-league universities, for our second rate to attend until your universities block entrance and claim asians are yadda yadda yadda (newspapers you no read)

[@gregboggs4721]

Just wondering when Brandon will close it down!?

[@kyleharvey7]

Go fly regionals lol this is nothing compared to that.

[@erwinignacio6453]

cool

[@michaeltamares7974]

China wish they the talent to be fighter pilots

[@dusty_five_2]

"Everyday from when the sun comes up til' the sun goes down and beyond we are launching..." wasting fuel dreaming of an enemy with an air force to fight...Funny the navy using F-16s. What happened with using the 300 million dollars F-22 150 million dollars F-35 per unit not including maintenance, armaments, and upgrades cost. The excuse maybe to use F-16s as adversary. The truth is every fighter pilot loves the F-16 cockpit and bubble canopy. Nothing comes close, not the F-5, F-15, F/A-18, F-22, or even the F-35 glass touchscreens. Even the navy fan boys wants to fly the F-16 obviously, so does Ukraine wanted and got them to replace their MIGs.

[@acb9896]

"Need to save lives. .." (Save aircraft)

[@stefanorunnertube]

Top gun😆‼️😱

[@lewislane1143]

Humble people do not name the institute Top Gun

[@Alex-wj6so]

but the pilots did, what's the problem

[@cabledad65]

And petty people nit pick.

[@lancehawk3179]

I do not worry about my military being humble in fact I don't necessarily want my military to be humble

[@benoualiabderrahman1273]

Yeaaaaaah to save lives yeeeeeeah WE beleave u ... As u do in irak siria lybia and somal yeaaah u were saving lives sure

[@jeffreyrichardson]

jody annes white dress greg scott still smoking confess doug brothers sons guess

[@jeffreyrichardson]

arthur rogers risk scattered dum dums lobster bisque twelve mayfields tide wisk

[@jknox6267]

Waste of tax dollers

[@senseiquickbooks4588]

Bla bla bla and bla bla bla... Your reporters should just make poems instead. Learned close to nothing on this video.. rubbish reporting

[@Sills71]

An over the hill actor playing an obsolete profession.

[@wildbill60]

💤💤💤

[@dnajournal4321]

My heart swells with pride knowing this brave men and women killed about a million Iraqis to keep us safe from those WMDs. God bless.

[@Sneezyridr]

Why blame it on soldiers just doing their job, the corrupt politicians got us into those stupid Middle East wars and you know exactly who I’m talking about

[@dnajournal4321]

@@Sneezyridr The soldiers did the actual raping and killing. Was Hitler to blame? Yeah. Were the Nazi soldiers also to blame? Overall yeah. The actual soldiers turned on the gas in those concentration camps. Anyways, just a million Iraqi civilians. Who cares about them. Waterboarding was also allowed. Anyways, Top Gun Maverick was great - just a shame the empire's evil.

[@cabledad65]

Spoken like someone who has never put anything before themselves in their entire lives.

[@dnajournal4321]

@@cabledad65 When you watch Star Wars or Troy or Gladiator or Braveheart or a movie about the Nazi villains, remember the modern villain empire alive today are you guys. Which other nation had murdered up to 2 million civilians the last 15 years? Or committed war crimes and then locked the journalists like Julian Assange in jail for publishing them? Bring up Stalin or Pol Pot. They were last century's evil Empires. God bless anyone resisting Darth Vader's empire.

[@fambrown4250]

Enjoy the name before the Democrats change its name to Top --😂

[@misterbig9025]

But this movie is an American propaganda!

[@bill2953]

And it's designed to sell popcorn, so sue somebody.

[@revenant3516]

No one give a shit abt that propaganda BS. I watch movies for entertainment, not political debate

[@cabledad65]

Versues the money losing anti American, "woke" projects that Hollywood releases every year.

[@mango7862]

Thanks Yankees for a free Afghanistan … good job 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Just kidding 😂

[@covidhoax7646]

There are no points for second place.