The United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program, more popularly known as Top Gun, is a United States Navy training program that teaches air combat maneuvering tactics and techniques t
"TOP GUN" text at the line shack of NAS Miramar, 1984
U.S. Navy Fleet Air Gunnery Unit Pacific aircraft from NAAS El Centro in the late 1950s
An F-16 Fighting Falcon and an F-14 Tomcat engaged in a mock dogfight as part of Top Gun training in 1989
Mechanics at the flight line of NAS Miramar, 1984
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar is a United States Marine Corps installation that is home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, which is the aviation element of the I Marine Expeditionary Force. It is loc
United States Navy Strike Fighter Tactics Instructor program
…operating units as surrogate instructors. The program began as the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School, established on 3 March 1969, at the former Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California. In 1996, the school was merged into the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center at Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada. An earlier…
An aerial view of MCAS Miramar during 2008
Naval Consolidated Brig, Miramar
NAS Miramar in 1954
VF-111 pilots at NAS Miramar