Thursday, January 27, 2011

Busted: Chinese Media Caught Faking Air Force Training Drill Using "Top Gun" Footage

"What really gave them away was the fact that they used the original sound track."  (Grizzled Bear at Free Republic)
Xinwen lianbo, or News Broadcast, on China Central Television, comes under fire again for its report of an air force training exercise on January 23. In the newscast, 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.

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.

On the left are screenshots of CCTV News; on the right are screenshots of Top Gun.


Don't be so quick to concede these buffoons are the soon to be masters of the universe.  They've still shown no propensity to create original high tech weaponry.  They have, however, shown the propensity to make crappy counterfeits.  Of everything.  Step it up Japan.  It's your time.

 h/t Weasel Zippers and Ministry of Tofu

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