In a recent mission, Sava, a Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot, demonstrated agility with a barrel roll post-strike, reflecting the ...

That’s because the MiG-28 doesn’t really exist. The filmmakers created it for the purposes of their film (they’d do it again in the 2023 sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, when Maverick pilots the ...

MiG-28s in "Top Gun" (Paramount Pictures) Okay, so that’s not technically true: The aircraft you see depicted as the MiG-28 in “Top Gun” is a real aircraft, it’s just not a MiG.

In “Top Gun: Maverick,” that question is left intentionally fuzzy, with the film offering vague and contradictory hints about the antagonist that don’t quite add up.