For more than thirty years as a service to one of the nation’s finest Navy sailors, Pete Maverick Mitchell (Tom Cruise) is where he belongs, pushing the envelope like a brave test pilot and avoiding the investment progress that will bring him down. While training for a senior subgrade qualification for a specialized mission that a live pilot has never seen, Maverick meets Lieutenant Bradley Bradshaw (Miles Teller), Cold Mark: Pet, Maverick's son a late friend, and Lieutenant Nick Bradshaw's labor officer. , called the goose.

Facing an uncertain future and confronting the ghosts of the past, Maverick faces her deepest fears, culminating in a task that requires the ultimate sacrifice of the chosen to fly her.