I shit you not, the central hook of the plot is a death star trench run to bomb a yellow cake facility in Iran’s mountains. As you could imagine it’s epic and Tom “Xenu” Cruise pulls it off effortlessly…but then! He gets shot down, and is forced to hijack an F-14 to fly home (getting gun kills on the way back).
It still makes absolutely no sense why they had to use the f18s. I know the entire point was to make up a reason to replicate some of independence day but absolutely none it makes sense.
Because top gun is about navy pilots, and the main navy fighter when it was filmed is mainly the F-18. Just like in the first top gun movie they fly F-14s because that was the main navy fighter at the time. It has nothing to do with independence day at all.
I know, it’s just they wanted to do cool stunts. I just hate the reasoning they came up with