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China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:41 am
by Slapzy
Did they really try this.. discuss!
A few days ago, China Central Television showed footage of what they claimed was an air force training exercise conducted on January 23. From the looks of things, they were actually just playing clips from Top Gun.
The clips in question were reportedly aired during the News Broadcast program on China Central Television, the major state television broadcast company. They supposedly showed a J-10 fighter firing a missile at another aircraft during a practice exercise.
But an internet commenter quickly pointed out that the aircraft the J-10 was shown shooting down was an F-5, an American aircraft, and the very one Tom Cruise guns down in a scene from Top Gun. Comparing frames from the CCTV broadcast (left) and Top Gun (right), well, they're lookin' pretty much identical.
I lol'd.
Source:
http://gizmodo.com/5745307/did-china-tr ... ce-footage
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:16 am
by Noodle
I did too.
Funny how the PLAAF always shows off it's planes but never their capabilities...
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 11:05 am
by kiddten
Lol'd hard.
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 1:15 pm
by Mgalekgolo
lol saw this on the news.
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:41 pm
by Devious
Lol Propaganda.
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 7:26 am
by Sugarlumps
I lol'ed very hard.
Off-topic: Top gun was one of the shows i really enjoyed when I was younger.
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2011 11:43 pm
by Mota-Lev
Fucking asians how do they work?
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:07 am
by wildrn
Geez, its like A1: 'We need to advertise our planes' A2: 'But our planes are crap...' A1: 'I KNOW! We can steal footage from a movie that heaps of people have seen!'
Rest of the world: 'Hey wait a second..... Is that tom cruise?'
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:39 am
by Pielogist
I don't actually have much to say, but since i actually live in China and all, i'ma post.
lol china.
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:26 am
by Smythe
Pielogist wrote:I don't actually have much to say, but since i actually live in China and all, i'ma post.
lol china.
Your country am derp.
Re: China tries to pass off "Top Gun" as air force footage.
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:11 am
by Noodle
Korpic wrote:Geez, its like A1: 'We need to advertise our planes' A2: 'But our planes are crap...' A1: 'I KNOW! We can steal footage from a movie that heaps of people have seen!'
Rest of the world: 'Hey wait a second..... Is that tom cruise?'
Actually, though I will bring up my point again of they've never really shown it, the PLAAF is quite capable, being equipped with new fighters like the russian Su-27 Flanker (or a chinese copy anyway), arguably the most manuverable multirole fighter in the world, and the new J-10 Vigorous Dragon, which is shown in the video, the newest aspiring compact fighter that's more or less an F-16 given israeli steroids and made asian awesome. For a modern day air force they've got a pretty good arsenal, albiet a bit outdated compared to the US, but they've also got strength in numbers and they'd put up a fight for any modern day nation.