If you thought the most dangerous parts of “Top Gun: Maverick” were the MiGs, just wait until you meet the lawyers.
Whilst we wait for updates on the third installment of “Top Gun” (a story that screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie has called “in the bag”), let’s do a little catching up on the lawsuits filed against the gangbuster “Top Gun: Maverick. “
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After pulling off a major open-ocean rescue hundreds of miles off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California, two U.S. Air Force helicopters landed at a Mexican airport last week on the mission’s return leg. But as the Arizona-based crews rested and slept after a grueling 12 hours of flying, a wave of online rumors and misinformation erupted around their arrival.
By morning, the Mexican defense department had issued a statement clarifying that the U.S. airmen were just passing through.
In January 2026, neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. His message was clear: “Our kids are less cognitively capable than we were at their age.”
From a military and national defense point-of-view, the declaration might catch the War Department’s attention. But it’s really the Department of Education that should be paying attention. If a viewer stopped viewing after that first sentence, they missed a whole lot of important nuance.
Two punishing days in the barren expanse of the
There’s a scene in “It’s a Wonderful Life” where George Bailey sits in a bar. He’s struggling, at the end of his rope. He prays for help and begins crying. It’s one of the most emotional scenes in film history and makes us all ugly-cry every Christmas.
What some people may not realize is that actor Jimmy Stewart, who plays Bailey in the movie, was really crying.
He was on a Hollywood soundstage, in front of a crew of hundreds, really pouring his heart out. Crying wasn’t even in the script.
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The Marine Corps is steadily growing its arsenal of long-range weapons with a Pacific fight in mind. On Jan. 30, the service selected a “launched effect” from L3Harris called Red Wolf that can be deployed from AH-1Z Viper helicopters and hit a target over 230 miles away.
Put another way, Marine attack helicopters will soon be able to reach out and touch something 3,373 football fields away (with a missile).
This gives Marines, who continue to push forward with Force Design 2030, the ability to conduct over-the-horizon strikes from Vipers and other vertical take-off platforms.
The People’s Liberation Army Navy might have a ridiculous name, but it’s starting get some serious weaponry. A Chinese Shenyang J-15 “Flying Shark” was recently spotted carrying two YJ-15 anti-ship missiles, and that little detail is a loud message about reach, targeting, and making life harder for everyone operating inside the first island chain.
This wasn’t a conceptual mock-up or a test flight. It was a carrier-based fighter, in flight, sporting a pair of YJ-15 supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles powered by ramjet engines.
Vladimir Putin likes to talk a lot of smack when demonstrating Russia’s new weapons. But Western analysts face a familiar dilemma every time: We have to separate genuine technological advances from the propaganda hype. Luckily, history is a valuable filter here.
Moscow has repeatedly showcased platforms billed as revolutionary, only for actual combat experience and technical analysis to reveal some pretty critical flaws.