knapplc Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: :facepalm: Chinese air force drill looks awfully similar to ‘Top Gun’By Joe Pompeo 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." Not convinced? The Wall Street Journal's China Real Time Report put the videos side-by-side. (Click headline for side-by-side videos) 1 Quote Link to comment
RockyMountainOySker Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Nice! Quote Link to comment
holvy83 Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 no, no, no... there's 2 O's in Goose boys! Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 An actual live fire missile shot? That's a negative, Ghost Rider. Quote Link to comment
308_Husker Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Revvin' up your engine Listen to her howlin' roar Metal under tension Beggin' you to touch and go Hiiiiighhhwaayyy to the Danger Zone! dun dun duuuuunnn Quote Link to comment
dizzturbedNUfan Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 If you want to make this story even funnier, go to Yahoo and read the comments! Dear lord people! Quote Link to comment
NUance Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 comment: What are you going to do release mothra on us. Ha ha! Funny comment. Everybody knows Mothra is from Japan not China. Quote Link to comment
HuskerNLimbo Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 Revvin' up your engine Listen to her howlin' roar Metal under tension Beggin' you to touch and go Hiiiiighhhwaayyy to the Danger Zone! dun dun duuuuunnn You beat me to it! : Quote Link to comment
walksalone Posted February 1, 2011 Share Posted February 1, 2011 bomb them now... That is all... Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted February 1, 2011 Author Share Posted February 1, 2011 bomb them now... That is all... Willard and Simkin are standing by on cats 3 and 4, but right now we've only got Ice and Maverick in the air. Gonna be tough. Quote Link to comment
okaive Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 If you want to make this story even funnier, go to Yahoo and read the comments! Dear lord people! Oh sure, don't leave a link for it. Quote Link to comment
zoogs Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 I was just thinking that nobody could possibly be this stupid. After watching, I am pretty confident about this thread title being extremely misleading. Rather than the Chinese government releasing that footage and trying to pass it off as such, some idiot news station just put that footage up as part of their news report. It is quite common, unfortunately, for irresponsible news stations to do this sort of thing. I remember when BBC/CNN were running stories about the Tibetan riots. They'd try to go along the "Big strong military crackdown" theme and would run pictures of non-Chinese soldiers along with their stories. Makes me at news media everywhere. Quote Link to comment
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