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I shit you not, the central hook of the plot is a death star trench run to bomb a yellow cake facility in Iran's mountains. As you could imagine it's epic and Tom "Xenu" Cruise pulls it off effortlessly...but then! He gets shot down, and is forced to hijack an F-14 to fly home (getting gun kills on the way back).

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[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 22 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yeah, and one of the main premises is that ChinaRussiaIran has more advanced planes, but because Tom Cruise and the other 'Mericans are so good and heroic, that doesn't matter. Granted, they're flying F-18s (and later an F-14 which actually beats them) which were dated when the movie was filmed and even more so because it was postponed due to COVID, but it's still ridiculous that the premise is that the US is a smol bean underdog.

[-] Goferking0@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 hours ago

It still makes absolutely no sense why they had to use the f18s. I know the entire point was to make up a reason to replicate some of independence day but absolutely none it makes sense.

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