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.
Arsenal AR-SF
Terrorists are armed with Arsenal AR-SF carbines. "Ipod" (Jean-Baptiste Puech) uses one briefly as well.
AKS-74U
Terrorists are armed with AKS-74Us when they capture the jets.
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.
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DEFA 554
Walk'n shoots down the rogue Mirage 2000 with his DEFA 554 cannon.
Matra R.550 Magic
Walk'n blows up the remaining Mirage 2000 with a single Matra R.550 Magic heat seeking missile.
Matra Super 530
Walk'n blows up the last rogue Mirage 2000 with a single Matra Super 530 missile.
Crotale Surface-to-Air missile
A Crotale missile launcher is seen outside of the Special Missions base.