{"id":42410,"date":"2020-07-08T02:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=42410"},"modified":"2024-07-08T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T22:13:07","slug":"these-are-the-authentic-top-gun-the-elite-of-the-us-navy-fighter-aviators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/07\/08\/these-are-the-authentic-top-gun-the-elite-of-the-us-navy-fighter-aviators\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the authentic Top Gun: the elite of the US Navy fighter aviators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US premiere of \"Top Gun: Maverick\", the sequel to the famous movie \"Top Gun\" released in 1986, is scheduled for next December.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/07\/18\/first-trailer-of-top-gun-maverick-this-is-how-the-fighters-of-the-1986-movie-ended\/\">First trailer of 'Top Gun Maverick': this is how the fighters of the 1986 movie ended<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2019\/09\/09\/the-meaning-of-the-different-colors-of-the-flight-personnel-on-warships\/\">The meaning of the different colors of the flight personnel on warships<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>\"Top Gun\" is the nickname of the Navy Fighter Weapons School<\/strong>, created by the United States Navy in 1969 at the Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California, <strong>to offer additional instruction to naval fighter airmen in close-range air-to-air engagements<\/strong>, known in aviation parlance as \"dog fights\".<\/p>\n<p><strong>Currently, the Top Gun program is conducted at the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center<\/strong> at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada, and is officially called the <strong>Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor Program.<\/strong> Gone are the times when your students flew with the famous F-14 Tomcat. <strong>They now fly in the F\/A-18E Super Hornet, and face an Aggressor Squadron equipped with different types of aircraft<\/strong>, from F-16A to F\/A-18A\/B Hornet and F\/A-18E\/F Super Hornet, going through the F-5E Tiger II. The NAS Fallon Aggressor Squadron is the VFC-13 \"Saints\".<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, <strong>the US Navy published a report on the true Top Guns, which shows three instructors of this training program.<\/strong> If you expected to see aviators playing volleyball on a beach, fans of large displacement motorcycles and flirting in a bar, the video will surely surprise you, because what we see are <strong>very professional guys with family<\/strong> and who dedicate their free time to hobbies very calm. For strong emotions they already have their job:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/00aHvkKj7Bs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US premiere of \u00abTop Gun: Maverick\u00bb, the sequel to the famous movie \u00abTop Gun\u00bb released in 1986, is scheduled for next December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11545],"tags":[6612,14049,14048,21932,6217,14047,12869,12870,10431,319,14050],"class_list":["post-42410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-navy","tag-boeing-fa-18ef-super-hornet","tag-nas-fallon","tag-nas-miramar","tag-naval-aviation-warfare-development-center-nawdc","tag-navy-fighter-weapons-school","tag-strike-fighter-tactics-instructor-program","tag-top-gun","tag-top-gun-maverick","tag-united-states","tag-us-navy","tag-vfc-13-saints"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 08:57:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}