This was a mockbuster of Top Gun: Maverick (2022), which was first intended to be released in 2019, and then rescheduled to June 2020, before being rescheduled to December 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and then again to 2021 before being delayed to 2022. Because of the numerous delays, the mockbuster saw home video release two years before the movie it was meant to cash in on had a scheduled release date.