- Awesome Music: Gant is walking towards the hangar; the camera pans down and a Scare Chord plays as we get our first look at the MiG-31. It helps that the music was composed and conducted by Maurice Jarre, of Doctor Zhivago fame.
- Hilarious in Hindsight:
- The nose/cockpit section of the Firefox bears a striking resemblance to the F-117 Nighthawk, which entered service the same year this movie came out.
- The original novel describes the titular aircraft as being similar in appearance to the MiG-25, which the real MiG-31, introduced around the same time as the film's release, did indeed end up resembling.
- Retroactive Recognition: A number of well-known actors were in the film.
- Dirty Harry vs. Admiral Piett!
- Dr. Semelovsky was Thoth in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Yuri Andropov also played Dietrich, also from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- Pavel Upenskoy played Dim in A Clockwork Orange.
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