![]() ![]() Iceman advises that "It's time to let go" and reassures him that both the Navy and Rooster need Maverick. He tells his doubts to Iceman, who has terminal throat cancer. Maverick is reluctant to further interfere with Rooster's career, but the alternative is to send him on the extremely dangerous mission. Rooster, unaware of the promise, angrily resents Maverick for dropping his Naval Academy application-impeding his military career-and blames him for his father's death. Maverick reunites with former girlfriend Penny Benjamin, to whom he reveals that he promised Rooster's dying mother that Rooster would not become a pilot. Lieutenants Jake "Hangman" Seresin and Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw-son of Maverick's dead best friend and RIO Nick "Goose" Bradshaw-clash: Rooster dislikes Hangman's cavalier attitude, while Hangman criticizes Rooster's cautious flying. Maverick dogfights his skeptical students and prevails in every contest, winning their respect. Maverick devises a plan employing two pairs of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets armed with laser-guided bombs, but instead of participating in the strike, he is to train an elite group of Top Gun graduates assembled by Air Boss Vice Admiral Beau "Cyclone" Simpson. It is defended by surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), GPS jammers, and fifth-generation Su-57 fighters as well as older F-14 Tomcats. The Navy has been tasked with destroying an unsanctioned uranium enrichment plant, located in an underground bunker at the end of a canyon, before it becomes operational. Iceman again saves Maverick's career by assigning him to the Top Gun school at NAS North Island for his next assignment, but Cain tells Maverick that the era of crewed fighter aircraft will soon be over. However, the prototype is destroyed when he cannot resist pushing beyond Mach 10. To save the program, Maverick unilaterally changes the target speed for that day's test from Mach 9 to the final contract specification of Mach 10. Rear Admiral Chester "Hammer" Cain plans to cancel Maverick's hypersonic "Darkstar" scramjet program in favor of funding drones. Despite many achievements, repeated insubordination has kept him from flag rank his friend and former Top Gun rival, Admiral Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, now commander of the U.S. ![]() More than 30 years after graduating from Top Gun (1986), United States Navy Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is a test pilot. ![]()
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