Tom Cruise in the cockpit as Maverick in Top Gun: Maverick
Top Gun: Maverick is closer to reality than you may think! In an interview with ScreenRant ahead of Top Gun's 40th anniversary, retired Marine fighter pilot and former Top Gun instructor Dave Berke praised the sequel's carrier launch sequence for accurately capturing the tension and controlled chaos that exists in the lead-up to launch, and the real naval aviation procedures the film employed to pull off the scene.
From the communication to the language and the words they used in that high-intensity moment, Berke said the film got it "exactly right.
" Watching and dissecting the scene, Berke acknowledged that while Top Gun: Maverick is very much still a movie, and Tom Cruise's beloved Maverick is a ways away from being a real deal fighter pilot, the sequel does a "brilliant job of reflecting reality. " Dave Berke: I think the movie does a brilliant job of reflecting reality.
Remember, this is weeks of preparation, and all the anticipation and the buildup culminate at this moment where they launch off the deck of a carrier. And they did a really good job. The communications, the language, and the words they use are all exactly right. Calling up and ready.
Every pilot and every aircraft has to indicate that the person is ready to go. The ship has to indicate it's ready to go. And then finally, the commander has to give the thumbs up to launch him off the flight deck. You could even hear the catapult hitting the end of the catch rope there as each of the four jets went off.
And even the crew, the ship knows that those jets are gone. They're on the mission. And they did just a brilliant job of building up the anticipation, 'cause we know what's coming. The next thing is they gotta attack that target.
And that is another brilliant scene. But this lead into that is absolutely well captured, and super realistic, and reminds me of what it felt like being on a carrier in an F-18. Another realistic scenario came during the low-level mission scene, the main mission in the film, which saw the crew attempt to destroy a secret uranium plant hidden deep in a canyon so that it would be undetectable by enemy radar.
To do that, the pilots have to fly extremely low, at roughly just 50 feet above the ground at speeds over 660 knots, performing a dangerous"pop-up" attack maneuver that sees them, at the last second, pull up sharply to fire at a small target between the mountains. The storyline, Burke said, is "pretty realistic," and in real life, the former Marine noted, there are plenty of scenarios and missions that require fighter pilots to get underneath the radar to avoid detection "as long as possible.
" Some of the more jaw-dropping moments in the scene, however, are done using CGI, with Burke sharing that fighter pilots are unlikely to do things like fly underneath bridges during low-level missions like the one depicted in the film. Still, Burke praised Top Gun: Maverick once again, for doing a "really good job" at reflecting the reality of carrying out these nail-biting stunts.
Dave Berke: One of the key themes in Top Gun Maverick was they created the mission by which he was absolutely required to come in at low level. Now, the scenario that they're working against is the idea that this target that they're attacking is well defended against what we call SAMS: surface-to-air missiles, which have a radar attached to it, and that radar is looking for, in this case, those four F-18s.
And so the storyline in some cases is pretty realistic that you have to come in really low. Now they are really low in this scene. They're just a few feet above the water. But in real life, there are absolutely scenarios, and absolutely missions where we have to get in underneath the radar to avoid detection as long as possible.
And this depiction of that is really good. Now, we probably aren't going to be flying underneath bridges, and some of the things they do are really cool CGI scenes. But from a realism standpoint, they did a really good job recognizing that this scene reflects reality, that if you don't want to be found, the best way to do it in a four-gen fighter like an F-18 is to get in as low as possible.
Both Top Gun and Top Gun: Maverick are available to stream on Paramount+. 113 9.0/10 8/10 Top Gun: Maverick 10 stars 9 stars 8 stars 7 stars 6 stars 5 stars 4 stars 3 stars 2 stars 1 star Like Follow Followed PG-13 Action Drama War Release Date May 27, 2022 Runtime 130 Minutes Director Joseph Kosinski Writers Ashley Miller, Justin Marks, Peter Craig, Zack Stentz Prequel Top Gun Cast See All Franchise Top Gun Powered by Expand Collapse
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