11-18-2017, 02:42 PM
OK,
In the artistic license area:
1. There is no Top Gun trophy - totally made up aspect of the movie.
2. The Mig 28 was totally fictitious. They're F-5's, but where you gonna get a half dozen real migs to shoot a movie with ? And Mig's have always been given odd numbers by Nato. Mig 17, 19, 21 etc.
3. At the end of the graduation ceremony suddenly several graduates are given emergency orders to fly out to a carrier in the middle of the I.O. (Indian Ocean). Carrier air wings are assigned for every WesPac Deployment well in advance, and do a lot of training for deployment. They'd have to qualify for night and day traps, (landing on the carrier underway at sea) before they'd be sent off on a mission. And members don't generally just join the team like that.
To say the least it's a stretch that they'd be flown out to sea and that evening or whatever be in combat !
In the general mistakes area: I'd have to go back and watch it for total accuracy but just from memory
1. I believe they show a couple different Carriers in both the opening scene and final battle.
2. There are numerous incorrect shots of F-14's and A-4's in the training scenes that are way off ! Scenes where F-14 are shown fully armed or partially with missiles, Phoenix, sidewinder, and sparrow and the next scene they're unarmed - no missiles.
They talk about the "hard deck" being 10,00 feet but many shots/scenes are shown where they're no where near that high.
3. The fight scene at the end the same thing with the missiles no missiles shown on F-14's and the Migs as well I believe.
4. The Russians didn't use French "Exocet" antishipping missiles. That I'm aware of ?
5. The Captain of a ship wears a command at sea gold star on his I believe right shirt pocket ? There are a couple different scenes where they show him without it on.
6. There are again scenes where the uniforms change ribbons and such still in the same moment/scene.
7. They blur the lines with the Captain of the ship and an Air Wing Commander. Like the scene where the "Captain" takes I forget his call sign ? the guy that quits resignation. That would most likely be the Air Wing Commander doing that and assigning Maverick and Goose to Top Gun in their place.
This is just quickly off the top of my head, I'm sure I could watch it again and triple this list.
In the artistic license area:
1. There is no Top Gun trophy - totally made up aspect of the movie.
2. The Mig 28 was totally fictitious. They're F-5's, but where you gonna get a half dozen real migs to shoot a movie with ? And Mig's have always been given odd numbers by Nato. Mig 17, 19, 21 etc.
3. At the end of the graduation ceremony suddenly several graduates are given emergency orders to fly out to a carrier in the middle of the I.O. (Indian Ocean). Carrier air wings are assigned for every WesPac Deployment well in advance, and do a lot of training for deployment. They'd have to qualify for night and day traps, (landing on the carrier underway at sea) before they'd be sent off on a mission. And members don't generally just join the team like that.
To say the least it's a stretch that they'd be flown out to sea and that evening or whatever be in combat !
In the general mistakes area: I'd have to go back and watch it for total accuracy but just from memory
1. I believe they show a couple different Carriers in both the opening scene and final battle.
2. There are numerous incorrect shots of F-14's and A-4's in the training scenes that are way off ! Scenes where F-14 are shown fully armed or partially with missiles, Phoenix, sidewinder, and sparrow and the next scene they're unarmed - no missiles.
They talk about the "hard deck" being 10,00 feet but many shots/scenes are shown where they're no where near that high.
3. The fight scene at the end the same thing with the missiles no missiles shown on F-14's and the Migs as well I believe.
4. The Russians didn't use French "Exocet" antishipping missiles. That I'm aware of ?
5. The Captain of a ship wears a command at sea gold star on his I believe right shirt pocket ? There are a couple different scenes where they show him without it on.
6. There are again scenes where the uniforms change ribbons and such still in the same moment/scene.
7. They blur the lines with the Captain of the ship and an Air Wing Commander. Like the scene where the "Captain" takes I forget his call sign ? the guy that quits resignation. That would most likely be the Air Wing Commander doing that and assigning Maverick and Goose to Top Gun in their place.
This is just quickly off the top of my head, I'm sure I could watch it again and triple this list.
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