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== Cast ==
*The [[United States Air Force]]
**[[Clint Eastwood]] as Major Mitchell Gant USAF (retired), former member of the Aggressor Squadron, and former attack pilot in the [[Vietnam War]].
**[[David Huffman]] as Captain Arthur Buckholz, his handler.
**[[Thomas Hill]] as General Brown, who directs Gant's retraining in aerial combat

The [[United States Navy]]
* Michael Currie as Captain Seerbacker, commanding an unnamed US ballistic-missile submarine
* James Staley as Lt. Cmdr. Fleischer, his executive officer
* John Ratzenberger as MCPO Peck, his chief-of-the-boat

The Secret Intelligence Service of the [[United Kingdom]]
*[[Freddie Jones]] as Kenneth Aubrey, chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

The [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]]
* [[Stefan Schnabel]] as (presumably) [[Leonid Brezhnev]], First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (never specifically identified)
* The Soviet Army Air Forces:
** Alan Tilvern as Kutuzov, Chief Air Marshal
** Klaus Löwitsch as General Vladimirov, officer-in-charge of trying to stop Gant from escaping
** Kai Wulff as Lt. Col. Yuriy Voskov, chief test pilot
* The [[KGB|Committee for State Security]]
** Wolf Kahler as [[Yuri Andropov|Yuriy Andropov]], Chairman
** Kenneth Colley as Col. Kontarsky, officer-in-charge of security for the MiG-31 development project
*** Oliver Cotton as Lt. Col. Dmitri Priabin, his second-in-command
*** Eugene Lipinski as a KGB agent who challenges Gant and gets himself killed for his trouble
*The [[Moscow]] Militia (i.e., police):
** Hugh Fraser as Chief Inspector Aleksei Tortyev, investigating the murder of Leon Sprague

The Anti-Soviet resistance:
* Nigel Hawthorne as Dr. Pyotr Baranovich, chief project scientist for the MiG-31
** Dmitra Arliss as Natalya, his significant other and assistant chief project scientist
** Ronald Lacey as Semelovskiy, another project scientist
* Warren Clarke as Pavel Upenskoy, a delivery-van driver
** Barrie Houghton as Boris Glazunov, his regular driver's mate, for whom Gant is substituted to get him out of Moscow
** Czeslaw Grocholski as an old man who ultimately commits suicide to avoid interrogation-under-torture
** George Orrison as Leon Sprague, an American businessman whose identity Gant steals to get into Russia

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