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So what country were they attacking in the movie? It was Iran, right? It's the only country I could figure that the US doesn't want enriching uranium and also still flies F-14s. The only thing that doesn't fit is that, as far as I know, Iran has no snow covered mountains within a short distance of any body of water that the US would have a carrier in. Well that and they don't have any Russian 5th gen fighters, but neither does Russia really.

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To me the F-14 wasn’t a matter of fact but just a chance to do a cameo flashback and put Maverick back in his trusty F-14 again.

In a movie like this so much is bringing back old cast members. The F-14 being one of them. I also felt the same seeing Penny drive a Porsche, Maverick’s motorcycles etc.

Sailboat scene was decent too.

I haven’t seen the movie, but aren’t the Zagros mountains a short distance from the Persian Gulf?

The enemy fighters were “MIG-28s” (actually T-5s). They were black and had a yellow circle with red star on the tail. I don’t think the enemy country was mentioned.

Edit: according to the Top Gun wiki, the audio commentary says North Korea. https://topgun.fandom.com/wiki/MiG-28

The enemy country was clearly purposely not mentioned, and I think intended to be "generic bad guy".

Propaganda need be timeless after all

Incorect. The enemy aircraft were all Su-57, Russia's 5th gen fighter.

Right, the enemy fighters in the first movie were MIG-28s.

I was not aware there was a second movie. The article only references the 1986 one.

Oh right, that makes sense. The new movie just came out, I saw it last night, it's really good. The comment you're replying to was referencing plot elements in the new one but didn't explicitly say so.

It’s just a fictional place for a fictional enemy that has planes from real life.

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