Posted on 01/31/2011 11:27:41 AM PST by driftdiver
On Jan. 23, China's state broadcaster, CCTV, ran a story about an air force training exercise that contained some suspicious footage.
Around the segment's one minute 12 seconds mark (see above), as the China-U.S.-oriented blog Ministry of Tofu pointed out, "the way a target was hit by the air-to-air missile fired by a J-10 fighter aircraft and exploded looks almost identical to a cinema scene from the Hollywood film Top Gun."
Viewers were led to believe that what they were seeing was a live fire exercise. But according to Ministry of Tofu: "A net user who went by the name "刘毅" (Liu Yi) pointed out that the jet that the J-10 'hit' is an F-5, a US fighter jet. In Top Gun, what the leading actor Tom Cruise pilots an F-14 to bring down is exactly an F-5. Looking at the screenshots juxtaposition, one cannot fail to find that even flame, smoke and the way the splinters fly look the same."
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What?
No big gay vollyball scene too!
Don’t they want to keep up with us on that too???
The Chinese minister when asked to comment said “Ching chong, ching ching chong”
LOL!
Post of the day!
“Top Chow Fun”
A J-10 hitting an F-5 in tests wouldn’t be strange. We’ve exported and licensed it all over the world, and it’s fallen into enemy hands (esp. the Vietnamese). It’s not hard to imagine China getting several copies.
The scenes looking exactly the same is a bit harder to explain.
One of the comments was pretty good. China has also invented a faster than light spaceship.
Its called the Millennium Falcon.
-China
He totally owned that Mig-28.
Someone head in the state propaganda office is going to be on the chopping block, and since this is Communist China that might just be more that a figure of speech.
What a piece of JUNK!
She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts.
It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 230 trillion miles. Wait, that's a unit of distance. That makes no sense.
NO NO Its the Merriniam farcon!
China is taking the highway to the danger zone.
The new propaganda guy can share a cell with the old propaganda guy, who released the underwater spacewalk film last year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-qEZJh0mTU
I think it would be fun to crop in other dogfight scenes from various movies into that report. Maybe some WW1 biplane getting shot down, or the Hindenburg explosion. Let your imagination soar!
Maybe CCTV would run it! He’ll, they ran with Homer Simpson’s brain.
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