Les Chevaliers du ciel (Sky Fighters) is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.
The film was advertised as "Top-gun new generation" At the Farnborough Airshow, a rogue group hijacks a Mirage 2000-10 after killing its pilot.
A subsequent court-martial finds Marchelli guilty of destroying the stolen Mirage without provocation and discharges him from the air force, prompting Vallois to resign as well.
Special Missions promises to have them reinstated if they fly a Cannonball run over hostile territory to the Horn of Africa to help sell the Mirage to an Asian customer.
The terrorists plan to use the stolen Mirage to shoot down a tanker aircraft over Paris during the Bastille Day celebrations.