After more than thirty years of service, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell finds himself training a detachment of Top Gun graduates for a specialised mission the likes of which no living pilot has ever seen. Among his students is Lt Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Maverick's late friend Lt Nick Bradshaw, aka "Goose". Facing an uncertain future and the ghosts of his past, Maverick is drawn into a confrontation with his own deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who will be chosen to fly it.
