Top Gun for hire: why Hollywood is the US military’s best wingman

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Film-makers get to borrow expensive bits of kit on the cheap, but the Pentagon uses movies as a propaganda machine

ere comes Tom Cruise’s Maverick again, breaking the rules, pushing the limits, buzzing the control tower, then flashing his toothy grin and getting away with it like it’s still 1986. As with its smash-hit predecessor, though, there is one set of rulesscrupulously obeys: those of the US navy – without its fighter planes, bases, aircraft carriers and full-on cooperation the Top Gun movies would never exist.

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