Sky Fighters (Les chevaliers du ciel ) is a 2005 French action film starring Benoît Magimel and Clovis Cornillac, directed by Gérard Pirès. It is based on comic series Tanguy et Laverdure, although the character names are different. It can be described as France's answer to Top Gun, a propaganda film with incredible flying sequences. Unlike Top Gun, in which most of the filming was done from the ground, most of the filming in this film was done from the air, with specially designed camera pods fitted to the Mirage 2000 fighters.
Captains Antoine "Walk'n" Marchelli (Benoît Magimel) and Sébastien "Fahrenheit" Vallois (Clovis Cornillac) briefly use AKMS rifles taken from terrorists.
As Walk'n and Fahrenheit watch the Bastille Day festivities from home, a Steyr SSG 69 is shown. Since they actually filmed on Bastille Day, it's not clear if this is actually just stock footage.
Walk'n blows up the remaining Mirage 2000 with a single Matra R.550 Magic heat seeking missile.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingIt should be noted that instead of cutting to stock footage of an R.550 Magic missile firing, like in Top Gun, the filmmakers actually went out of their way to have a missile fired by the right plane. Notice that it is a two seater, with the second canopy missing, and even Fahrenheit (or a stunt double) in the back.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe first rogue Mirage 2000 with R.550 Magic and Super 530 missiles.
Matra Super 530
Walk'n blows up the last rogue Mirage 2000 with a single Matra Super 530 missile.