Dan T. Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Yahoo News - 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, 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. Link, with WSJ's video comparison: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thecutline/20110131/ts_yblog_thecutline/chinese-air-force-drill-looks-awfully-similar-to-top-gun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.T.real,lights,out Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Thats pretty funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Ministry of Tofu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted January 31, 2011 Author Share Posted January 31, 2011 Ministry of Tofu? That's the name of the blogger who saw the news piece on China's state television and pointed out the similarity between the explosion in the "news" piece and the explosion in "Top Gun." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Oh. Sorry. Must have missed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamshatterer Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 Epic fail!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubbs Posted January 31, 2011 Share Posted January 31, 2011 I heard that after the training exercise, the pilots all played beach volleyball. The completely unambiguous, 100% heterosexual kind, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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