Sneaky Chinese military

[utvolpj]

Looks like their propaganda machine needs better special effects

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."

Chinese air force drill looks awfully similar to ‘Top Gun’ - Yahoo! News

this part was pretty funny too

"In 2002, the popular Beijing Evening News tabloid translated and published as genuine a satirical news article by The Onion about U.S. Congress threatening to leave Washington D.C. unless the city built them a new building with a retractable roof," writes Josh Chin. "Five years later, the state-run Xinhua news agency infamously used an x-ray image of Homer Simpson's head to illustrate a story about the discovery of a genetic link to multiple sclerosis."

 

[OrangeWilly]

I think its legit.

That one pilot Hu Chun Goose is pretty good. Not as good as Chen Lu Iceman however.

 

[utvolpj]

and why would shooting down a drone be impressive anyway? Unless the Chinese people think that the loser of the exercise is killed