Factual error: The two white jets they keep showing doing bombing runs, multiple times throughout this movie, are Air Force training jets, not combat aircraft.
Bat*21 (1988)
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Directed by: Peter Markle
Starring: Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, Jerry Reed, David Marshall Grant
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Suggested correction: The aircraft are F-5 Tigers... They are absolutely combat aircraft.
I looked up the F-5 Tiger, and those planes do look similar to what I saw in the movie, but also very similar to films of training jets I've seen. Whatever those things were in the movie, they carried no bombs or missiles; they just flew over, and then stuff went off on the ground. https://www.military.com/equipment/f-5-tigershark.
OK - I think I found the answer - the F-5 Tiger is the combat aircraft and the F-5 Tigershark is the training version. They look almost the same but not quite.
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