Why is Tom Cruise's 'Top Gun' being linked to Iran's F-5 hitting US base in Kuwait?

Tom Cruise's 1986 movie 'Top Gun' featured an American F-5 fighter jet painted black to depict the enemy's MiG-28. Ironically, a recent NCB report claimed an Iranian F-5 fighter jet bombed a US base in Kuwait despite its air defences. The report called it a "rare breach...[marking] the first time an enemy fixed-wing aircraft...struck an American military base in years".