Top Gun: Maverick Page #6

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This allows you to maintain the lowest possible altitude and the only possible attack angle.

Your target is an impact point less than three meters wide.

The two-seat aircraft will paint the target with a laser bull’s-eye. [Beeping]

The first pair will breach the reactor by dropping a laser-guided bomb on an exposed ventilation hatch.

This will create an opening for the second pair.

That’s miracle number one.

The second team will deliver the kill shot…

[Target lock beeps]

And destroy the target.

That’s miracle number two.

If either team misses the target…

That’s a miss. [Maverick] The mission is a failure.

Damn it!

[Maverick] Egress is a steep high-g climb out to avoid hitting this mountain.

A steep climb at that speed, you’re pulling at least eight g’s.

Nine, minimum.

The stress limit of the f-18’s airframe is 7.5.

[Maverick] That’s the accepted limit.

To survive this mission, you’ll pull beyond that, even if it means bending your airframe.

You’ll be pulling so hard, you’ll weigh close to 2,000 pounds, your skull crushing your spine… [Grunting]

Your lungs imploding like an elephant’s sitting on your chest,

fighting with everything you have just to keep from blacking out.

[Grunting, gasping]

And this is where you’ll be at your most vulnerable.

This is coffin corner.

Assuming you avoid crashing into this mountain, you’ll climb straight up into enemy radar while losing all of your airspeed.

Within seconds, you’ll be fired upon by enemy sams.

You’ve all faced sustained g’s before, but this…

This is gonna take you and your aircraft to the breaking point.

Sir, is this even achievable?

The answer to that question will come down to the pilot in the box.

[Sonic boom]

Talk to me, Bob. We are 12 seconds late on target.

We gotta move! We gotta move! Copy. Try to stay with me.

[Radar beeping]

Huh? Wait, who’s that?

[Maverick] Blue team, you’ve been spotted.

Sh*t, it’s Maverick. What the hell is he doing here?

I’m a bandit on course to intercept. Blue team, what are you gonna do?

He’s 20 miles left. Ten o’clock. 700 knots closure.

Your call. What do you want to do?

Continue. We’re close. Stay on target.

He’s swinging around to the north! Stand by for pop-up.

Be ready on that laser, Bob. Copy. I’m on it.

Blue team, bandit is still closing.

Popping now.

[Grunting, gasping]

[Grunts]

Talk to me, Bob. Where’s Maverick?

He’s five miles out. He’s coming fast.

Target’s in sight. Where’s my laser, Bob?

Dead eye! Dead eye! It’s no good. Sorry, I can’t get a lock.

We’re out of time. I’m dropping blind.

Damn it, missed!

[Gasping]

[Gasping]

[Target lock beeps]

[Maverick] That’s tone.

Maverick’s got missile lock on us. Sh*t! We’re dead.

Blue team, that’s a fail.

Level out, coyote.

[Echoing] Coyote? Do you copy?

[Normal] Coyote, come in.

Coyote, level wings.

Oh, god. He’s in g-loc.

[Echoing] Coyote? Coyote?

He’s gonna burn in! I’m going after him.

Come on. Give me tone, give me tone, give me tone.

[Target lock beeping] Snap out of it, coyote. Come on! Come on!

Come on, coyote, come on. Come on!

Damn it! Coyote! Coyote!

[Automated voice] Pull up!

[Maverick] Coyote! Coyote!

[Automated voice] Pull up! Pull up!

Coyote, you okay? You okay?

[Breathes heavily] I’m okay. I’m good.

Good. Good. That’s enough for today.

That was close.

[Sighs] Too close.

Bird strike! Bird strike!

Bird strike!

[Alarm blaring]

Phoenix, left engine’s on fire! Climbing.

Throttling back. Shutting off fuel to left engine.

Extinguishing fire.

[Alarm continues] Right engine is out!

It’s still spinning. Trying to restart it.

[Engine powers up]

Phoenix, it’s on fire.

Don’t start… throttling up.

Oh, my god.

We’re on fire! We’re on fire! Damn it!

[Automated voice] Engine fire. Right. Extinguishing right engine.

Phoenix, Bob, punch out, punch out!

Warning lights everywhere! Hydraulic failure!

Flight controls. I can’t control it.

[Bob] We’re going down, Phoenix! We’re going in! We’re going in!

You can’t save it. Eject, eject!

Eject, eject, eject!

[Automated voice] Altitude. Altitude.

They’ll keep Phoenix and Bob in the hospital overnight for observation.

They’re gonna be okay.

That’s good.

I’ve never lost a wing man.

You’re lucky.

Fly long enough, it’ll happen.

There will be others.

Easy for you to say. No wife.

No kids.

Nobody to mourn you when you burn in.

Go home.

Just get some sleep.

Why’d you pull my papers at the academy?

Why did you stand in my way?

You weren’t ready.

Ready for what?

Huh? Ready to fly like you? No.

Ready to forget the book.

Trust your instincts. Don’t think, just do.

You think up there, you’re dead. Believe me.

My dad believed in you.

I’m not gonna make the same mistake.

[Door opens]

[Warlock] Maverick.

[Bugler plays “taps”]

[Officer] Ready, aim, fire.

Ready, aim, fire.

[Gunshots]

Ready, aim, fire.

[Gunshots]

I can only imagine what you must be feeling right now.

Take some time. Whatever you need.

I appreciate that, sir, but there is no time. The mission…

I’ll be taking over the training from here.

Sir?

We both know you didn’t want this job, captain.

Sir, they’re not ready. It was your job to get them ready.

Sir, they have to believe that this mission can be flown.

And all you’ve managed to do is teach them that it can’t.

Sir… you’re grounded, captain.

Permanently.

Sir… that is all.

I heard.

I’m sorry.

What are you gonna do?

Ice is gone.

What choice do I have?

You’ll have to find a way back on your own.

No, penny.

I’m out.

This is over.

Pete.

If you lost your wing man up there, you’d keep fighting.

You wouldn’t just give up.

Those are your pilots.

If anything happens to them, you’ll never forgive yourself.

I don’t know what to do.

But you’ll find a way.

I know you will.

[Cyclone] Captain Mitchell is no longer your instructor.

And as of today, there are new mission parameters.

Time to target is now four minutes.

[Beeps]

You’ll be entering the valley level at reduced speed.

Not to exceed 420 knots.

Sir, won’t we be giving their planes time to intercept?

Well, lieutenant, you have a fighting chance against enemy aircraft.

What are the odds of surviving a head-on collision with a mountain?

You’ll be attacking the target from a higher altitude, level with the north wall.

Gonna be a little harder to keep your lase on target, but you will avoid the high-g climb out.

We’ll be sitting ducks for enemy missiles.

[Monitor beeping]

Who the hell is that?

[Maverick] Maverick to range control. Entering point Alpha.

Confirm green range.

[Range control] Uh, Maverick, range control, uh, green range is confirmed.

I don’t see an event scheduled for you, sir.

[Maverick] Well, I’m going anyway.

Nice.

Setting time to target: Two minutes 15 seconds.

2:
15? That’s impossible.

Final attack point. Maverick’s inbound.

[Breathing heavily]

[Beeping]

[Breathing heavily]

[Grunting]

[Rapid beeping]

[Grunting]

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