If you're wondering why the Ranger didn't return for a "Top Gun: Maverick" close-up, it's because the US Navy decommissioned the aircraft carrier in 1993. While the Ranger was reportedly kept in ...

Maverick' screenwriter Eric Singer has filed a lawsuit claiming he wrote 'key scenes' for the film without credit or pay.

USS Yorktown (CV-5)—an aircraft carrier commissioned in September 1937 and sunk in October 1942—was equipped with 24 Oerlikon ...

The US Navy was paid $886,000 in the early 1980s to allow use of the aircraft, a central part of the movie. The F-14 was then reused in 2022 for ’Top Gun: Maverick’, further cementing its ...

The Prime Minister has warned the world is in a “new era” of global insecurity and uncertainty as he visited the UK’s flagship aircraft carrier ... the 1980s movie Top Gun, as the prime ...

There’s a threat of war. There’s hesitant rearmament here in Britain. And, as in the 1930s, the planes which fly from the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers belong to the RAF – with disastrous ...

Ford, flying past the aircraft carrier in the direction of a destroyer ... a fraction of the price of a standard missile typically used by the Navy. “Those two systems are part of that attempt ...