Origins of Top Gun movie
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Thank you for sharing that. I have his book, The Cutting Edge, full of wonderful photographs of the carrier air group. I saw Top Gun in Dec 1986, one month before I joined HMS Ark Royal, which had the likes of Moggie and Soapy all serving in at the time.
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What a nice video. Thanks.
Interesting all round interview with ex Top Gun instructor on the origin of the movie plus some other military aspects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCaJ80Fuef8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCaJ80Fuef8
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No cowboy hats during briefings.
When you get to the end on YouTube - 4 5 8 9 hours in the air over Kuwait - serious flying!
Drift - but Ward Carroll is moving into 'news' - well worth the watch
And this lecture about the development of the F-14
Last edited by Deep Throat; 10th Nov 2023 at 12:45.
Those where the days "Air Power at Sea":
The F-14 Tomcat (and the F-4 Phantom in its day) were designed for fleet air defence - not defence of the carrier per se but long range defence against hordes of Soviet bombers.
...the primary mission for the CV/CVN in the North Atlantic was not ASW (it was an additional role) but rather AAW to prevent the Backfire/Bears from attacking the convoys. The A-6/A-7s were the organic tankers to push the F-4/F-14 CAP stations out to a range to shoot the archer, not the arrows. Obviously, those roles swapped a bit when you started facing a surface threat or got close enough to land to start contemplating strikes against those Soviet Naval Air Arm airfields - Former US Navy EA-6B Prowler Naval Flight Officer.
From a discussion (on another forum) about the role of the carrier in Sea Control.
...the primary mission for the CV/CVN in the North Atlantic was not ASW (it was an additional role) but rather AAW to prevent the Backfire/Bears from attacking the convoys. The A-6/A-7s were the organic tankers to push the F-4/F-14 CAP stations out to a range to shoot the archer, not the arrows. Obviously, those roles swapped a bit when you started facing a surface threat or got close enough to land to start contemplating strikes against those Soviet Naval Air Arm airfields - Former US Navy EA-6B Prowler Naval Flight Officer.
From a discussion (on another forum) about the role of the carrier in Sea Control.
Last edited by WE Branch Fanatic; 11th Nov 2023 at 17:35.
When it comes to "Top Gun" or something like that then once on the squadron on a fairly regular basis the UK based Air Defence pilots then got involved in Dissimilar Air Combat Training (DACT) with the USAF Aggressor guys flying the F-5's, out of Alconbury...You'd also go up again them whenever you detached pretty much annually to the Instrumented Range at Decimomannu in Sardinia where they had I think a full time presence.
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