In a high-speed encounter straight out of a Top Gun scene, a Su-27 Flanker aggressively intercepts an F-16 Viper—and fighter ...

The US Navy's Top Gun program is famous around the world thanks to the success of the Tom Cruise films. But the downside of ...

Top Gun was a breakthrough for Kilmer, who played Iceman, the rival to Cruise's hotshot Maverick at the US Navy's academy for ...

When Maverick is tasked with training a new group of Top Gun pilots for a “specialized mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen,” Maverick connects with Lt. Bradley Bradshaw ...

Top Gun's Maverick and Goose are among cinema's most iconic duos, with the two pilots becoming de facto blood brothers facing life-or-death situations. That takes a tragic turn when Goose dies on ...

Then, he breaks down the ways a modern day F/A-18 Super Hornet differs from an F-14, how Top Gun students train for dogfights, the physical effects gravitational forces can have on fighter pilots ...

As he proved with his incredible stunts in Mission: Impossible—Fallout, Tom Cruise just might be the youngest 56-year-old in Hollywood. Cruise has been hard at work on his next film, Top Gun ...

In March, a US Airways pilot accidentally fired his gun while he was stowing it during ... While the exact number of armed pilots is confidential, the TSA has said there are more armed pilots ...

Top Gun was a breakthrough for Kilmer, who played Iceman, the rival to Cruise's hotshot Maverick at the US Navy's academy for elite fighter pilots. On screen, saving the USA from Soviet MiG jets ...

Val Kilmer (left) and Tom Cruise were sparring partners on screen and off in classic 1986 film Top Gun [Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock] ...