Could it be a Checkmate?
Nah, scratch that… That one is even newer.
I guess it’s a Su-56 Fake. Nobody’s been this close before 
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God i hope its called a faker
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I was thinking Fake as NATO code, but Faker is even better! 
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Ward Caroll has a pretty good take on what the plot might be. So much so, that I wished that I hadn’t watched it.
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This has started making the rounds in Navy Nuke circles.
It’s accurate - to command a nuke carrier (and chances are very high that’s what he’d command), you have to qualify as a nuke through the pipeline.
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Woke up today and that one was in my list. Loved it. And his stuff. Think his Desert Storm one has like 14M! views.
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That “Cobra Maneuver” part. 
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More behind the scenes footage!
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but yet,
I have proof half the “aerial scenes” were blue boxed.
Has anyone claimed that all the aerial scenes were shot in aircraft?
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At the risk of sounding dumb, is this the same as green screen or something else
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Green Screen, Blue Screen, Chroma Key,
Blue screen has less color spill and more clarity than green screen.
Its just not used as much because the Blue color occurs more naturally than the green used in green screen.
nothing in Top Gun is likely to have that shade of blue other than the sky, so it will retain clarity, color edges and sharpness when chroma keyed, looking more realistic and natural.
they literally had a Tomcat and a few Block I Super Hornets in a blue box, so most of the dogfight scenes are likely chroma keyed with CGI. doubt we had permission to dogfight with a Su57 Felon for a movie.
So most of the Cockpit back shots of other aircraft in close prox. are likely blue screened (the Su-57 Tomcat Flyby, The F/A-18 Cobra Break and Cobra Break with Flares, and all of the extremely close flybys.
Especially when it is almost certainly going to lose…even to an outdated Tomcat…
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Did they even get the correct engines for the Su-57 Yet?
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@SkateZilla, I don’t understand… Of course CGI is involved. When you talk about proof of CGI I’m thinking, has anyone claimed otherwise?
Like, did Tom Cruise (or someone else in the movie) say that it was all shot in real aircraft and yes, they bagged a Felon…? I don’t get it.
What I love about the original Top Gun movie is that they used model aircraft for several scenes, in addition to real aircraft. The special effects team did a really good job, but today you could actually re-shoot all of the aerial scenes in Top Gun using DCS, and get a better result 
I’m really looking forward to see what they’ve done in TG Maveric.
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He did say in a lot of interviews and in the old and new behind the scenes that CGI was not an option, and it doesnt generate realistic results, etc.
But i think he meant the total use of CGI and not just minor use for otherwise prohibited manuevers.
most of the trailer for example, the close call passes, the hornet splitting the parade (both from the front and from below) etc, are all multiple layer scenes, with multiple layers of content layered over top of another.
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Yeah, that’s pretty obvious to me, as nobody would risk the lives and hardware on such stunts. What I think is incredible is how real it looks though.
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CGI or Not (is it Live or is it Memorex?) The degree to which either is true isn’t what I find curious. It’s that people (elsewhere) get their nickers all a-kilter over the question - that they may be wrong in their conclusions. Likely the minority however.
It’s a story, “Hollywood”. I think I’ll find it entertaining - the flying scenes. The rest is a standard HW plot(s)/formula, adjusted for demographics as HW sees it today. In about, oh, 2-10 years I’ll watch it on Netflix or Prime. Tom, et.al., implying (I’ve not really delved deep into this) that it is “real” is marketing. To be expected.
I don’t think it will have the reach, or legs, the first one did; the world is different today, and we have many other distractions vying for out attention. I’ll enjoy going inverted over Peggy B’s house in my virtual Tomcat more
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the original Top Gun used the same methods, so its nothing new.