
on top of that, the high-carbon hardened shackle is covered with an anti-cut shroud. With a special high carbon laminated riveted body this will deal with a lot of punishment without giving up. The F-5s were painted black to show their "hostile" status.While this is one of the smaller locks on this list it really is built to be a real pain for anyone that doesn’t have a key. Navy F-5s that were used as aggressor aircraft at TOPGUN. The actual aircraft used in the movie are U.S. In real-life, all postwar MiG aircraft in military service have been odd-numbered, so the MiG-28 is a fictional designation. In video games licensed from the films, the enemy planes are replaced with real Soviet aircraft, the MiG-29 "Fulcrum".Īudio commentary on the film's Special-Edition DVD release states that they were originally intended to be North Korean.


In the script, American pilots were warned that the MiG-28 was armed with the AM 39 Exocet, a French-made Anti-ship Missile not found in the inventory of Soviet forces. The nation that flew the MiG-28s was not specified whatsoever in the film but assumed to be the Soviet Union or another Communist state. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell and his wingman Cougar squared off against MiG-28s with no NATO reporting name and of unspecified nationality. MiG is highly maneuverable, but somewhat slower than the F-14 Tomcat. As seen in Top Gun, it uses wingtip-mounted Vympel K-13 (NATO reporting name "AA-2 Atoll") missiles as its primary air to air weapon (the Atoll is a reverse-engineered version of the AIM-9 Sidewinder). The MiG-28 (МиГ-28 in Cyrillic script) is a twin-engine, single or two-seat fighter jet operated by Soviet bloc air forces. Three "MiG-28s" fly off the coast near San Diego


"MiG-28" - a Navy Topgun F-5 painted black for the movie
