Archive: https://archive.today/rDZ2u From the post: >>In the film “Top Gun: Maverick,” there’s a memorable scene where Tom Cruise looks over his shoulder in the cockpit and sees inbound missiles hot on his tail. Amid the riveting action, most fans of the film don’t realize the real hero of this moment is magnesium. Cruise fires deflection flares, which shoot out the back of his F/A-18 Super Hornet and throw the enemy missiles off course. Those are magnesium flares. Big Blue Technologies, a magnesium processing startup with operations at Cheyenne’s Swan Ranch Industrial Park, told Cowboy State Daily the magnesium needed to make those flares “could come from Cheyenne tomorrow.” Big Blue Technologies CEO Aaron Palumbo said the company is still in the startup phase, but it’s applying for development grants and courting investors, while looking to satisfy the demand for domestically produced magnesium materials, including metals, aluminum alloys and fighter jet deflector flares.