Fire Birds (also known as Wings of the Apache) is a 1990 action film starring actors Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young released in 1990 by Touchstone Pictures.
Critics panned the film, saying it was a mediocre rip-off of the much more popular and acclaimed Top Gun with Tom Cruise.
A joint task force operation of the DEA and US Army has been formed to take down one of the largest drug cartels in Central America. Multiple attempts to ass...
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Fire Birds (also known as Wings of the Apache) is a 1990 action film starring actors Nicolas Cage, Tommy Lee Jones and Sean Young released in 1990 by Touchstone Pictures.
Critics panned the film, saying it was a mediocre rip-off of the much more popular and acclaimed Top Gun with Tom Cruise.
A joint task force operation of the DEA and US Army has been formed to take down one of the largest drug cartels in Central America. Multiple attempts to assault the cartel's mountain compound, however, have been thwarted by a black Scorpion attack helicopter (actually a Boeing MD500 Defender) piloted by Eric Stoller, a known terrorist and one of the world's most skilled pilots. After having several aircraft shot down (most notably a pair of UH-60 Black Hawks and their AH-1 Cobra escorts), the US Army turns to the new AH-64 Apache attack helicopter - the only aircraft in their arsenal that can match the Scorpion for both maneuverability and firepower.
Hotshot pilot Jake Preston (Nicholas Cage) was...
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