Iceman again saves Maverick's career by assigning him to the Top Gun school at NAS North Island for his next assignment, but Cain tells Maverick that the era of crewed fighter aircraft will soon be over. However, the prototype is destroyed when he cannot resist pushing beyond Mach 10. To save the program, Maverick unilaterally changes the target speed for that day's test from Mach 9 to the final contract specification of Mach 10. Rear Admiral Chester "Hammer" Cain plans to cancel Maverick's hypersonic "Darkstar" scramjet program in favor of funding drones. Despite many achievements, repeated insubordination has kept him from flag rank his friend and former Top Gun rival, Admiral Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, now commander of the U.S. More than 30 years after graduating from Top Gun (1986), United States Navy Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is a test pilot.
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