Chinese air force drill looks awfully similar to ‘Top Gun’

Yahoo News ^ | Jan 31, 2011 | Joe Pompeo

[driftdiver]

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."

[JRios1968]

You came in that? You’re braver than I thought!

[JRios1968]

Guess I should have pinged Laz...

[Lazamataz]

"She once made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs...."

- China

[driftdiver]

Thats no moon!

[MeganC]

In other news the PLAF says the song “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” was originally written by Mao as “You’ve Rost that Ruvin Feering” in 1947.

[spetznaz]

Hahahaha ...silly Chinese

[Axenolith]

It would make sense if you had to drop in and out of hyperspace to avoid interacting with gravitational fields. Then the "ballsiest" runner would be the guy who flirted with the fields closely, shaving the actual real space distance that was traveled to a record...
Of course, now you get to the sense part of the actual traveled distance taking about a half year if all undertaken at around 99.99% C...

[Axenolith]

It would make sense if you had to drop in and out of hyperspace to avoid interacting with gravitational fields. Then the "ballsiest" runner would be the guy who flirted with the fields closely, shaving the actual real space distance that was traveled to a record... Of course, now you get to the sense part of the actual traveled distance taking about a half year if all undertaken at around 99.99% C...

[Axenolith]

Arggg... out of practice posting FAIL!

[MeganC]

Interesting. ‘The Ministry of Tofu’ website is coincidentally down right now.

[nothingnew]

‘The Ministry of Tofu’ website is coincidentally down right now.

Good. I hate Tofu.

FMCDH(BITS)