Strike University (Strike U), the Naval Strike Warfare Center, and TOPDOME (the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons School) wears desert or Su-27-like color schemes to simulate the Russian or ...

About two years ago, Hollywood movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer saw a magazine article about the Navy’s Fighter Weapons School at Miramar Naval Air ... Heatley said, no trophy is given to ...

Though it's popularly known as TOPGUN, the Navy's program is actually called the Fighter Weapons School ... Gun the movie only increased the world's interest in, and respect of, naval fighters.

FALLON, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — "Top Gun: Maverick" is the most anticipated movie of the summer. Tom Cruise isn't the only star. So are the Navy fighter weapons school and the staff in Fallon ...

NAVAL AIR STATION OCEANA (WAVY) — Some U.S. Navy pilots completed some intense training that a lot of us civilians know of from a popular 80s movie. On Thursday, Naval Air Station Oceana, the ...

“In the history of motion pictures, there is not a more iconic aviation movie than the 1986 ... excellence of the Navy Fighter Weapons School, the ethos of Naval Aviation, and the fighting ...

In his illustrated talk about the program popularized by a Hollywood movie ... fighter pilot Dan Pedersen, the first officer in charge and co-founder of the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons School ...