The MiG-28 jet from "Top Gun" may not be a real craft, ... The first delivery took place in 1964 and the last one in 1989, three years after "Top Gun" premiered.

Top Gun’s primary antagonist wasn’t a human being as is the case in so many Hollywood blockbusters. It wasn’t a living being at all. The main villain in that iconic film was the mythical MiG-28.

Summary and Key Points: In Top Gun (1986), the fictional MiG-28 aircraft is depicted as an adversary to U.S. Navy pilots, but it was actually a repainted Northrop F-5, a real-world fighter.

In Top Gun (1986), the “bad guys” fly MiG-28s, capable of a “negative G pushover.” Now, there is no such thing as a MiG-28; the screenwriters made the thing up entirely.