--- title: "This Is The Navy Weaponry That Top Gun 2’s Box Office Haul Could Buy" description: "In the roughly month and half since *[Top Gun: Maverick]()* opened in theaters to rave reviews, the long-awaited sequel has raked in $1.13B at the box office. The film is still filling theater seats even while competing with Marvel's latest…" date: "2022-07-09" modified: "2022-07-09" authors: - name: "Tyler Rogoway" job_title: "Editor-in-Chief" link: "https://www.twz.com/authors/tyler-rogoway" url: "https://www.twz.com/top-gun-maverick-has-made-16-super-hornets-worth-of-box-office-cash" categories: - "Aggressors" - "Air" - "Hollywood" - "Navies" - "Navy Adversaries" - "News & Features" - "Sea" - "Topgun" - "U.S. Navy" tags: - "Must Read Features" --- # This Is The Navy Weaponry That Top Gun 2’s Box Office Haul Could Buy ![top-gun-maverick formation super Hornet]() *Paramount Pictures* In the roughly month and half since *[Top Gun: Maverick]()* opened in theaters to rave reviews, the long-awaited sequel has raked in $1.13B at the box office. The film is still filling theater seats even while competing with Marvel's latest entry into the Thor franchise. With a huge part of the backend, it will mark [Tom Cruise's biggest payday](), which is remarkable considering the 60-year-old's incredible career and COVID-19 continuing to blunt the movie industry. Now [there are talks of a sequel]() (of course there are) that could turn *Top Gun* into a traditional franchise. Regardless, against a budget of $170M, this thing made a ton of cash, but considering the world of military technology it leverages as a backdrop, it can be viewed as an amazingly small *or* large amount, depending on what you compare it to within that world. So, what Navy weaponry could be bought with *Top Gun: Maverick's* box office total? The answer may surprise you: -16 F/A-18 Super Hornets. That is over a squadron and a half of Boeing's '4.5' generation naval strike fighters that star in the movie. -You could fly around 6,275 hours in one of those Super Hornets for that same sum. ![]() *F/A-18E Super Hornets fly in formation. (USN)* -The Navy could buy six-to-seven E-2D Hawkeyes, the U.S. Navy's other flying star in *Top Gun: Maverick.* -If flying rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong is your thing, then you could buy 14 KC-130Js -Or around 11 CMV-22 Osprey carrier onboard delivery tiltrotors. -Roughly two Littoral Combat Ships *with* their mission packages. -You could operate an LCS 16 years ![]() **Independence* class LCSs. (USN)* -Just shy of a single *constellation* class next generation Frigate. -Around half of one *Arleigh Burke* class destroyer. -You could operate that destroyer for 14 years. -About 1/3 of a Block IV *Virginia* class nuclear fast attack submarine. -Roughly 1/12 of a *Ford* class supercarrier. ![]() *USS *Gerald R. Ford* underway. (USN)* -2625 AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder air-to-air missiles -1032 AIM-120D Advanced Medium-Range Air-To-Air Missiles (AMRAAMS) -Close to 29,000 GBU-39/B Small Diameter Bombs -Roughly 5100 GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb IIs/Storbreakers -51500 Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAMS) -321 AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASMs) ![]() *A Super Hornet launches a LRASM during a test mission. (USN)* -184 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile-Extended Range (AARGM-ER) missiles -735 Block V RGM -109 'Tactical' Tomahawk cruise missiles -630 RIM-162 Block II Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles -481 Block IIIC SM-2 Standard surface-to-air missiles. -262 SM-6 advanced multi-purpose missiles -1250 RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles ![]() You can read more about what particular missiles and bombs [cost in these]() past [reports of ours](). The film has done incredibly well, but when you compare its big gross number with what the Navy doles out for hardware it can add a bit of perspective as to what all that capability depicted in the move or associated with it actually costs. Regardless, go see it! It's a fun movie with [*great* aerial sequences](). If you can, do so in a SCREENX theater, it was a great addition to the experience! *Contact the author: Tyler@thedrive.com* ## Author Tyler’s passion is the study of military technology, strategy, as well as foreign policy, and he has fostered a dominant voice on those topics in the defense and national security space. Tyler was the creator of the hugely popular defense site *Foxtrot Alpha* before developing *TWZ*, which he continues to lead as the Editor-In-Chief to this day. ### Author social links [Twitter]()