How the fuck did maverick shoot 3 of them down??? Russian 5th Gens are fucking god tier...

>its shit
Gee I wonder why blayts only got 4 working ones

>Russian 5th Gens are fucking god tier
it's a joke like the rest of the country, a drunken idiot's attempt at the F-22 (1990s technology), and only a handful were built, even less actually flew

>muh airshow tricks

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> Russian 5th Gens are fucking god tier
Too bad neither the poos want them nor vatniks cant build them because the philips screws they need for these pristine """5th gen fighters""" are sanctioned.

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Third one was going to blast them. So one out of three, for Maverick, in a Top Gun movie is not something moviebreaking.

it was a feint, the entire russian army is behind the hill waiting to strike

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All the competent Russian pilots died in Ukraine. There are no competent Iranian pilots.

the planes were behind on maintenance and the US caught them before the next shipment of erector sets came in

These. They only basically explicitly stated it half a dozen times in the leadup to the final confrontation that 1) modern pilots have become complacent in their dogfighting skills due to decades of, with only a few exceptions, engaging in high altitude bombing runs when overwhelming air superiority was already established and 2) Maverick is a salty dog who has been in the game a very long time, was a top tier pilot when he was young and less experienced, and has only accumulated further skills and tricks over the decades. In almost no point does Maverick rely on superior turnrates or acceleration or physical attributes of the platform he's fighting in. He utilizes the element of surprise, positioning, his environment and superior platform knowledge in that he knows that the IR missiles his opponent uses have issues with multipath propagation is close proximity to bodies of water He pulls a Jackie Chan and uses his environment, the circumstances and his own creativity to come out ahead against a physically superior opponent.

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He was flying a hijacked enemy plane which isn't something pilots expect to encounter and had the element of surprise.

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