What The Fastest Real Fighter Jet Plane In Top Gun: Maverick Is
Warning! SPOILERS for Top Gun: Maverick.
Top Gun: Maverick takes its aeronautical acrobatics to a whole new level by featuring an array of real fighter jet planes throughout its runtime—one is exceptionally faster than the others. Set almost four decades after its predecessor, Top Gun: Maverick marks the return of Tom Cruise's Captain Pete «Maverick» Mitchell, who not only pulls more Gs in his high-flying endeavors but also packs a lot more grit, compassion, and comradeship. This time around, his naval aviation adventures take him back to Miramar, where he must train a new group of Top Gun graduates for a dangerous time-bound mission.
Top Gun: Maverick's soul lies in its redemptive arcs of nostalgia, multi-layered emotional drama, and exciting callbacks, but its cinematic spectacle comes from its incredible aerial maneuvers. These stunning flying sequences spotlight a wide range of planes—from Super Hornets to the F-6K Mustang—with each having a unique role in the film's overarching premise. While one (the fictional «Darkstar») puts Maverick's prowess and recklessness on full display in the film's opening scenes, another (Tom Cruise's «Kiss Me Kate» plane) brings a heartwarming closure to Maverick and Penny's romantic storyline.
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When it comes to the top speeds of these aircraft, the fictional hypersonic «Darkstar» is clearly the fastest, as it touches Mach 10 speeds. However, among all the real fighter jet planes in Top Gun: Maverick, the F-14 Tomcat ranks above all with a top speed of 2,485 km/h. Given that the aircraft was piloted by Tom Cruise's Maverick throughout the first 1986 movie, it is not surprising that it gets some screen time
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