Fighter Pilot Breaks Down Every Fighter Jet From Top Gun: Maverick | WIRED

My name is Matthew Buckley, my call sign is Genius, and I'm a

fighter

pilot

. I'm going to explain each and

every

fighter

plane in Top Gun Maverick, so I originally saw the first Top Gun in 1986. It was one of the worst things. That happened to me as a result of that movie. They all wanted to be Navy fighter

pilot

s and decided to study and try even harder. The first thing I think of when I see the F-14 Tomcat is a target, a big plane, a big radar on the front. and massive missiles, a Sidewinder, which is a heat-seeking missile, the sparrow, the radar missile and the big stick called the phoenix that could shoot probably over 100 miles in the mid-80s when the original Top Gun came out, The F-14 Tomcat was The preeminent fighters.

The objective of the mission was the air defense of the fleet, responsible for protecting the entire carrier battle group from the horde of Soviet bombers that would attack in due course. The F-14 Tomcat was a fairly maneuverable aircraft and with 14 we don't even know. If that bag can fly, I think Gallo nailed it and I think he was being nice, we also call it a bullet sponge, so on a good day in the United States Navy it would be a tall order to get an F-14 Tomcat Airborne and much less enter. a foreign country that doesn't have the same parts or the same maintenance people, there is only one nation on the face of the planet that still flies the Tomcat and that is Iran, but to be so tactically competent after not flying that plane for a couple of years .

In my opinion, a little exaggerated, pure love, it is the most beautiful airplane on the face of the planet. The FA-18 Hornet is the first multi-role attack fighter aircraft, a single-seat twin-engine aircraft and can fly up to Mach. 1.7 Mach 1.8, but the F-18 can carry all types of air-to-air weapons up to GPS-guided weapons and you can even drop gas tanks on the plane and it can also serve as a tanker, thank you. The makers of Top Gun Maverick just did an absolutely incredible job. The aviation scenes made me shift in my seat and, you know, clench my muscles like I was really on the plane when you're flying in an F-18 at 25.

Your feet go so fast, your senses are absolutely heightened, you even sneeze. and it's over, the plane flies so low to the ground that the air can't get out of the plane's path fast enough and actually kicks up all that dirt that the skill requires. doing that is pretty awesome a former Blue Angel actually flew that maneuver leveling coyote coyote experiences what we call g-lock G loss of consciousness when you start pulling multiple G's for example I weigh 200 pounds with eight G's it's like 1600 pounds The safe is sitting on top of me, blood is coming out of your head, so you have to squeeze your legs and abs to try to keep yourself from passing out if you lose consciousness, at least on the day I started flying.

The fighters die on the ground. The collision avoidance system is a system we have today. The plane will give you a couple of chances to stop, it will start yelling at you, and if you don't respond because you're out of smooth, it will automatically flap its wings and take you away. of danger I spent almost 3,000 hours on this plane one of my first true loves, Susie, don't kill me and it's just a part of me, it's a part of who I am. I just smile when I see this plane just a beautiful lines of this plane the hum of the engine the Rolls-Royce or Merlin engine you can fly between 400 and 450 miles per hour very maneuverable plane for its generation the P-51 Mustang is a fighter plane of World War II which was used to Escort bombers to attack Germany, but could also be used in ground attack missions to strafe enemy tanks.

Thank you. Tom Cruise actually has his. You can buy a P-51 Mustang. Unfortunately, for a couple million dollars, it's not a cheap plane. operate so that the F-35 looks interesting, not as attractive as the F-18 Hornet. The F-35 beam can reach Mach 1.6, about 1200 miles per hour, if you really look at the plane, it is an aerodynamic lift body, so it can glide. the single engine also rotates, so the nozzle moves to make the plane spin tighter in a circle and also to fire weapons, which is why the first time we see the F-35 Lightning II we see it on the deck of flight of the USS Abraham Lincoln.

CVN 72, which was the ship I did my first deployment on in 1995. The F-35 is definitely a fifth-generation aircraft. Many fifth generation aircraft have their own autonomous attack package, so to speak, on the day I flew. If we have F-14 Tomcats with air superiority, A6 is bombing and we would also have jamming planes. Many fifth-generation aircraft are three-in-one, having electronic warfare capabilities that can jam enemy radar and communications from the air. -The air and air-to-ground capability, plus the stealth features, are off the charts, so the fifth-generation planes, if you go up and touch them, they're going to feel a little spongy because they have radar-absorbing material on top of the radar. abroad. absorbent coating of the aircraft, they internalize weapons if there is something hanging on a fighter plane that reflects radar energy, so all weapons are internalized on a fifth generation aircraft, which is why the su-57 Felon has a name very appropriate because they stole this, this is essentially the F-35 skis, so to speak, so the Su-57 dropped and it is essentially the F-35, copy and paste, similar weapons systems, similar electronic warfare capabilities, strange things on the face of the planet, outside of helicopters, that can actually tell if it's being jammed by an infrared missile and can actually fire at that warhead and disintegrate it or disable it.

It's called Durkum. Direct infrared countermeasures. Nowadays, dogfights are extremely rare when our enemy pilot leaves his house and arrives at the air station. We know that's already happened if Nowadays, when you're in a dog fight, a lot of things get messed up

every

time you're in a dog fight. Who can turn harder because the Su-57 can carry some pretty serious air-to-air missiles, so if he was The driver of the Su-57 Felon who would have launched out of visual range of air combat went out a couple of miles, he realized He turned around and shot Maverick in the face with a radar missile, but I wasn't the director of Dark Star as shown above.

Gun Maverick, although it is a fictional plane or perhaps not foreign, the Dark Star Jed could actually be developed at what we call Skunk Works. Skunk Works is in the middle of the Mojave Desert, where they develop all of our black box aircraft. If you can think about it, it probably exists, there are probably guys and girls in a windowless room with air conditioning, Mountain Dew, and pizzas designing and building it. The Dark Star aircraft is based on the SR-71 Blackbird, it was very tall. High altitude plane at the edge of space that could do reconnaissance on demand.

Recon, as we call it, looks stealthy, very sleek, very fast and also has hypercruise engines, for example an F-18 Hornet that I flew to get a supersonic left hand. Full Max afterburner forward, lots of dinosaurs burning, lots of fire out the back as technology and engines get a lot better, less fire requires a lot less energy to get to a certain point and depending on how the fuselage is designed, in It can actually super cruise so I can fly faster for longer and with less fuel required and less fire for Maverick to more or less destroy the Dark Star plane, not a career-enhancing move.

I just broke a $65 million F-18 Hornet. I went from the edge of space to go straight down to the Pacific doing about Mach 1.7 and I overemphasize the plane that didn't improve my run either, but I saved the plane I ejected like Maverick did, so let's say I came out as a lieutenant, I don't know how. He made it to Captain by destroying planes that way, but after destroying the Dark Star he certainly won't be selected for admiral. It's not incredibly difficult to fly a fighter jet and I know it may sound a little crazy based on how it looks. but the training is so good that I'm a poor kid from South Jersey and South Philly and I'm not the smartest tool in the shed and if I can do it, almost everyone can do it too.