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Enemy figter jet
posted by manfromatlantisSTAFFMOD on February 10, 2020 at 3:21 PM
The fighter jet that Maverick and co.figtht has no country of origins the president of the u.s. which was Reagan was not called up..
Reply by northcoast
on February 11, 2020 at 7:17 AM
I always just assumed they were Soviet fighters-- since they sported a red star --operating out of a friendly country's base in the Indian Ocean area (such as Yemen, island of Socotra, where the Soviets really had a military base, or-- as mechajutaro said --Iran, etc.).
Also, in real life, the enemy MiGs were actually American F-5 Tiger II fighters painted to look like enemy planes; and the designation "MiG-28" was completely made up, as NATO only designated MiG fighters using odd numbers (MiG-21, MiG-23, MiG-25, MiG-27, MiG-29, all of which were real fighters, some of which are still flown by former East Bloc nations today).
The more you know (cue cheesy Public Awareness music)