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Did Chinese TV pass off Top Gun footage as a military drill?
Foreign Policy ^
| Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 12:36 PM
| Joshua Keating
Posted on 01/27/2011 1:23:21 PM PST by FreedomPoster
As part of its ongoing expansion, has the People's Liberation Army signed up Goose and Maverick? Chinese bloggers are accusing state broadcaster CCTV of using repurposed footage from the 1986 film Top Gun for a story on a recent air force drill. "Ministry of Tofu" explains:
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: navair
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LOL! Those Chinese will rip off anything. See the link for screen shots.
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01/27/2011 1:24:16 PM PST
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
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01/27/2011 1:24:49 PM PST
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Dead Corpse
(III%. The last line in the sand)
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01/27/2011 1:25:05 PM PST
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GnL
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01/27/2011 1:26:34 PM PST
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: GnL; Dead Corpse
See post #5; sorry about that. That’s what I get for using their “share” and not just what is in my browser URL box.
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01/27/2011 1:27:37 PM PST
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
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http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/27/did_chinese_tv_pass_off_top_gun_footage_as_a_military_drill
Here is a working link. Sorry, but I am html deficient.
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01/27/2011 1:28:27 PM PST
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USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: FreedomPoster
Maybe they just like seeing Tom Cruise again.....
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01/27/2011 1:29:15 PM PST
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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01/27/2011 1:31:08 PM PST
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Dead Corpse
(III%. The last line in the sand)
To: FreedomPoster
The funny part is, that particular show was done with models.
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01/27/2011 1:32:53 PM PST
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FrankR
(The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
To: FreedomPoster
That is pretty funny. They could have at least taken some footage that was from a military test. The Russians have to have something they could use.
Here is a picture of the J-10 destroying a ground target.
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01/27/2011 1:34:29 PM PST
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USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: USNBandit
Paramount ought to sue. I didn’t see any “courtesy of XXXXXX” subtitle on that.
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01/27/2011 1:38:14 PM PST
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USNBandit
(sarcasm engaged at all times)
To: FreedomPoster
And they have new tank designs pirated from the Germans.
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01/27/2011 1:41:23 PM PST
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Arrowhead1952
(America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
To: FreedomPoster
You've rost that rovin' feering.
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01/27/2011 1:43:55 PM PST
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KarlInOhio
(Washington is finally rid of the Kennedies. Free at last, thank God almighty we are free at last.)
To: FreedomPoster
Was this when Val Kilmer was not fat?
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01/27/2011 1:46:24 PM PST
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Frantzie
(Slaves do not have freedom only the illusion of freedom & their cable TV to drool at)
To: KarlInOhio
Negrative Ghost Lidel, the Patteln is Furr.
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01/27/2011 1:49:21 PM PST
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UNGN
(I've been here since '98 but had nothing to say until now)
To: Snickering Hound
OMG!
I can’t stop laughing!
To: Snickering Hound
Walkers might be useful for a beach landing.
Seriously.
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01/27/2011 1:51:53 PM PST
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Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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