Top Gunner

Movie (2020)

Starring:
Eric Roberts (Colonel Herring)
Carol Anne Watts (Lieutenant Brown)
Ignaycyo Matynia (Lieutenant Marcus)
Julian Cavett (Lieutenant Speilman)

Mockbuster in which a US Army commando led by Lassen seizes a biological weapon of mass destruction designed by the Russian army. Taking off under fire, their ATC Valkirie is damaged and must land as soon as possible on an isolated training base where only a colonel and three young trainees pilot could supported the commando in case of Russian assault.

Note: This film utilises a significant quantity of Computer Generated Images (CGI). Aircraft portrayed in this film may not be entirely accurate and have been identified as closely as possible to real aircraft.

Mil Mi-26

ATC Valkirie (CGI)

McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet

McDonnell Douglas F-15 & Boeing E-3D Sentry

Four McDonnell Douglas F-15Cs and a Royal Air Force E-3D Sentry.

Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet

Aboard the USS Enterprise (CVN-65), a Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet of VFA-11 is hidding a Grumman C-2A(R) Greyhound (note the eight-bladed NP2000 propeller). On the far left, less visible, are a grey folded Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk alongside a Northrop Grumman E-2C Hawkeye (the rotodome is mostly hidden by the F/A-18F Super Hornet's tails). Archive footage as the CVN-65 last cruise was in 2012.

F/A-18F Super Hornet (VFA-211 / CVW-1) embarked on USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

Lockheed C-130 Hercules

Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon

The Thunderbirds, the famous USAF Air Demonstration Squadron.

An anonymous one.

Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor

Boeing AH-64D Apache

Two McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornets (in the shelter : VFA-83 flew the F/A-18C until 2018) and a Boeing AH-64D Apache.

Aero L-39 Albatros

Tupolev Tu-160

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

Without the integral M61 Vulcan cannon, so USAF C or D or U.S. Navy / Marine B or J or N variant ?

Grumman F-14 Tomcat

Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey

Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion

Mil Mi-28N

Reg. RF-95316 Mil Mi-28N code yellow 15 crashed during a Russian TV show on 02 August 2015. The pilot is dead and the other crew survived. The archive footage is digitally modified by addition of the bush and snow terrain on the foreground (more on the Discussion tab).