The glorious and unquestionably righteous mission was to bomb the uranium enrichment site of a "rogue nation"? Gee whiz, who might that be? Iran? So the Top Gun sequel is refreshingly non-woke, but the tradeoff seems to be warmongering propaganda. What, they dared not be a little more specific? Iran? Syria? North Korea? It just doesn't matter does it? If they really wanted to be non-PC they wouldn't have flinched away from this.
shareDefinitely Iran, they just did not spell it out.
Only Iran has F-14s.
But it did not happen in reality, otherwise why bother to negotiate a deal? So this is more of wish fulfillment .... of warmongers.
Just like the tested Mach 10 aircraft in the beginning, that is not real either, US has Mach 10 aircraft, but they are all unmanned, and they do not take off from runways, but launched like missiles using aircraft like B-52.
But it did not happen in reality, otherwise why bother to negotiate a deal? So this is more of wish fulfillment .... of warmongers.
Yes, my feeling exactly. I just didn't want to appear too trollish and say it outright.
It's not about PC or non-PC. It's about deliberately omitting unnecessary information that'll not only date the film but also distract from the plot
And this film wasn't non-woke. I'm sure, SURE, we'll see MRA snowflakes whining about the female and non-white pilots, not to mention the very-white Hangman (who was almost TOO beat-for-beat identical with Iceman in the first film) as the "bad guy" (which of course he was not).
They're coming.
The original "Top Gun" did the same thing. We don't know who is the enemy. If anything, in "Top Gun: Maverick" we kinda can guess who it is by the planes they have.
Spoiler: Iran (the only country, apart from the US, who had/has F-14s).