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Budget. $170–177 million [ 1 ][ 3 ] Box office. $1.496 billion [ 4 ][ 5 ] Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie from stories by Peter Craig and Justin Marks. The film is a sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun.
In “Top Gun: Maverick,” the enemy is depicted as a rogue nation that possesses a fleet of fifth-generation fighter planes and is attempting to enrich uranium to develop nuclear weapons at a ...
China has two stealth fighter aircraft, Chengdu J-20 and Shenyang FC-31, both classified as fifth-generation fighter by United States Department of Defense. [53] By the late 1990s, several Chinese fifth-generation fighter programs, grouped under the program codename J-XX or XXJ, were identified by western intelligence sources. PLAAF officials ...
The Sukhoi Su-57 (Russian: Сухой Су-57; NATO reporting name: Felon) [3] [4] is a twin-engine stealth multirole fighter aircraft developed by Sukhoi. [5] It is the product of the PAK FA (Russian: ПАК ФА, prospective aeronautical complex of front-line aviation) programme, which was initiated in 1999 as a more modern and affordable alternative to the MFI (Mikoyan Project 1.44/1.42).
The SR-71 Blackbird was retired by the United States Air Force in 1998, [2] eliminating a unique and useful intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability. . Though most fifth-generation jet fighters and projected drones intended to operate in enemy airspace incorporated anti-radar stealth technologies, some came to believe that the growth of anti-access/area denial tactics and ...
The Boeing F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet are a series of American supersonic twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole fighter aircraft derived from the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, in service with the armed forces of the U.S., Australia, and Kuwait. The F/A-18E single-seat and F/A-18F tandem-seat variants are larger and more advanced ...
The two Chengdu J-20s making their first public appearance at Airshow China2016. The J-20 emerged from the late-1990s J-XXprogram. In 2008, the PLAAF endorsed Chengdu Aerospace Corporation's proposal, Project 718. Chengdu had previously used the double-canard configuration in the J-9, its first design and cancelled in the 1970s, and the J-10.
[10] [11] It has been suggested that Lockheed Martin "labeled the F-35 a 'fifth-generation' fighter in 2005, a term it borrowed from Russia in 2004 to describe the F-22". [12] Some accounts have subdivided the 4th generation into 4 and 4.5, or 4+ and 4++. The table below shows how some authors have divided up the generations, progressively ...