• Chinese air force J-10 drill looks awfully similar to ‘Top Gun’(WSJ) put the videos side-by-side

    Date: 2011.08.22 | Category: Chinese Wall Videos | Tags: ,,,,,,,,,

    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-US-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.” Not convinced? The Wall Street Journal’s China Real Time Report put the videos side-by-side.

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