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Revealing mistakes: Although the aircraft carrier is identified as the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) early in the movie, and initial action is indeed on the Lincoln, subsequent scenes are on both the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) as indicated by the large "68" and "70" on the flight deck and island structure.

Factual errors: In the war game scenario at the beginning, the planes are getting heckled by both Anti-Aircraft Artillery and Surface-to-Air Missiles. SAMs are only useful when the planes are flying above 500 feet, however, so they should have been no problem. Likewise AAA does not criss-cross as shown, for fear of destroying each other.

Factual errors: In the beginning of the movie, the commanding officer during the exercise refers to the crew as Naval pilots. In the Navy, pilots are referred to as aviators.

Factual errors: The North Korean sniper using the SVD marksman rifle, when the camera shot is through the scope, the wrong reticule is shown.

Factual errors: In the sniper shot fired by the North Korean at Lt Wade, the sound of the gunshot is heard before it seen penetrating her. The gunshot sound would have been heard after the bullet hit it's mark, since the scene is shown from the opposite side of the cliffs from where the shot was fired. Part of a gunshot sound is the sonic boom of a bullet exceeding the speed of the sound.

Miscellaneous: EDI flies through a 'water explosion' which extinguishes a fire on it, but its engines are totally unaffected.

Factual errors: In the night scene when the EDI first lands on the carrier, the ship has none of her navigation lights lit. We should see two masthead lights and a green sidelight.

Revealing mistakes: Refueling booms have that cone on the end for several reasons: one is stability; another is to help guide the refueling probe into the receptacle. By shooting off that cone the boom would whip around so violently that it would be impossible to pinpoint its end. Also, inside that cone are protrusions which interact on the aircraft probe valve system to allow the passage of fuel. Without that interaction, the interlock on the probe would never open.

Factual errors: If a plane is traveling at 350 knots. Pilot punches eject and flies off with his seat. The plane blows up 5 seconds later. Ejection seats are designed to get the pilot away from the plane as fast as possible. In five seconds, the plane, moving at 350 knots, should be almost 1 mile away. How did anything separated from the plane hit her seat/chute?

Factual errors: There is no way a pilot will store the personal defense weapon (that small machine pistol Wade pulled out just before ejection) inside the front instrument panel. Any such item would be stored under the seat in the survival pack. The force of ejection would have ripped it right off, even with the straps and her holding on.

Factual errors: When the fighters are whipping through the canyon, the G forces would knock out the pilots in a few turns, due to the small radius of the turns and the high speed at which they are traveling. Aside from the fact that they would be blacked out, the planes would probably also suffer damage, if not break apart completely.

Revealing mistakes: 140 The planes were flying at 15' in altitude over rice paddies and water at very high speeds. The force of the air being compressed under the jet would have made major disturbances in the water - yet nothing happened to the terrain. A few seconds later, they flew over building and ripped the roof tiles off.

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Factual errors: While the Talon pilots are speaking to the EDI, it often hesitates when answering a question or responding to orders. Since quantum processing's computational speed is theoretically limitless, there should be absolutely no delay between the action of the Talon pilots and the EDI's responses. In fact, quantum processing is so fast that it enables predictions almost instantaneously. Therefore, the EDI should know the answer to the Talon pilot's questions even before they ask them.

Factual errors: The GBU-84 Paveway-series bombs used at the beginning of the film are shown as rocket-propelled weapons, but are in fact Glide Bomb Units (given away by their GBU name). They are delivered to the target using gravity, forward momentum and small guidance fins in the nosecone.

Factual errors: It is known that scram jet technology can only work at hypersonic travel, but in the canyon scene they engage it in subsonic travel.