- Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.
- Butch 'Cobra' Masters aces his USNAF top gun squad, until they are all disgraced, blamed for an exercise turned tragically wrong as manipulated real-time information made them launch real rockets on a cave hideout for chemical arms. As suggested at court trial, his mates accept to avoid a conviction by applying for a voluntary dismissal, each finding a niche in civilian aircraft. When ambitious Pentagon official John Webster, the former squad's former superior, urgently needs their specialty of strike capacity in the Middle East but can't officially engage troops for diplomatic risks, the team is informally reassembled under promise of full rehabilitation. They are retrieved from placed as far as Moscow, complemented for research with his ex girl friend, now investigative reporter, supposed to prevent chemical weapon Rainmaster falling in the hands of crazy Kurdish militia in Syria, but layers of betrayal cause unforeseen trouble.—KGF Vissers
- In 2001 in Iraq, two American Navy pilots - Butch Masters and Tom Craig - are ordered to bomb an abandoned plant. Masters and Craig were on a routine observation mission when they received their orders on radio from an anonymous CIA agent, who was observing the target. The order appears to be false & unauthorized. American chemical experts get killed in the plant. A secret chemical device, called "Rainmaker", designed for oil fields destruction, gets stolen. Iraq had been developing the Rainmaker to attack Iran & the US had tracked its location to the building bombed by Masters and Craig. By the time another team reached the building, the contents had been removed by unidentified forces.
Military court cannot prove the pilots' intentions, and gives them a dishonorable discharge. After 7 years Craig is rich and famous. He manages a private pilot team, working for Top Gun and for movies. Masters is a grease monkey in a small airport. He still tries to investigate his old case, and dreams of his own pilot's team. In order to get a license to fly Russian jets, Masters goes to St. Petersburg, where he meets old friends and new problems. Masters meets Emma. Emma was engaged to Craig 7 yrs ago, but Craig broke off the engagement after the trial as he suspected Master & Emma of having an affair. Masters finds from a common friend that Craig has been missing from his job for 2 months & figures this has something to do with the Rainmaker.
At the same time, a Kurdish terrorist group plans to capture a part of Northern Iraq and found a new Kurdish state there. They plan to use Rainmaker to destroy oil fields there and make the territory uninteresting for Americans. The terrorists' base is located in Northern Iran, and cannot be reached by US military.
Navy intelligence offers Masters to clear his name by performing a secret off-records mission to Iran with a team of retired pilots. Using unmarked planes, they have to bomb the base and destroy "Rainmaker". The Navy liaison also tells Masters that Criag has in all probability joined the Kurds as a mercenary & is leading their air assault team. CIA agent (who ordered Masters and Craig 7 yrs earlier) named Cutter, who led the Kurdish forces to the Rainmaker after the airstrike 7 yrs earlier, joins Master's strike-force. Emma, meanwhile conducts her own investigation on Craig & finds that he owns millions of shares of a company called GeoPetrol. She also finds that GeoPetrol had created the technology to decompose oil Bio-Genically, & had provided that technology to Iraq to turn into a weapon.
The attack plans includes Master's team to fly into Greece & then get air dropped into Azerbaijan, where they will receive 3 Su-27, in Iranian air-force colors, and a cache of bunker buster missiles to attack the Rainmaker location in Iran. A Russian missile expert, Anna, also goes with the team. The Azerbaijan air force betrays the Americans & holds them captive. The team escapes their prison & flies off in a Russian bi-plane. The team makes it to a Russian airbase in SYria, but many members of the team are injured. Masters informs his superiors in US & they call Cutter & bring him into the loop as they still don't know that Cutter was the agent who ordered the airstrike 7 yrs ago. The Russians inform Masters that Rainmaker will not only decompose oil, but will create a radioactive cloud that will kill millions.
Meanwhile the Naval intelligence figures out that the unknown CIA agent who ordered the airstrike 7 yrs ago, didn't want the rainmaker destroyed. He only wanted the building evacuated, so that the rainmaker could be extracted safely. Cutter orders Craig to attack the Russian airbase where Masters & his team have taken refuge as he doesn't want any interference in his plan to deploy the rainmaker.
The Russians are reluctant to help the Americans, but their base is attacked by Craig & his team, on their route to Iraq, where they intend to deploy the rainmaker. The Russians are angry & decide to help the Americans, by letting them borrow their SU-27's. In the air battle, both sides loose planes. Masters tells Craig about the side effects of Rainmaker & this triggers his loyalty. Craig gives up his life to destroy the Rainmaker. He gives Masters the coordinates to location of the CIA agent who betrayed them. Masters kills the CIA agent & returns with his team to the US
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