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Chinese air force drill looks awfully similar to ‘Top Gun’
Yahoo News ^ | Jan 31, 2011 | Joe Pompeo

Posted on 01/31/2011 11:27:41 AM PST by 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."

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: china; oldnews
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To: driftdiver

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


21 posted on 01/31/2011 12:45:30 PM PST by JRios1968 (This is me, in a nutshell: "Let me out of here...I'm trapped in a nutshell!!!!")
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To: JRios1968; Lazamataz

Guess I should have pinged Laz...


22 posted on 01/31/2011 12:46:24 PM PST by JRios1968 (This is me, in a nutshell: "Let me out of here...I'm trapped in a nutshell!!!!")
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To: SIDENET; JRios1968
"She once made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs...."

- China

23 posted on 01/31/2011 12:55:16 PM PST by Lazamataz (If Illegal Aliens are Undocumented Workers, then Thieves are Undocumented Shoppers.)
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To: Lazamataz

Thats no moon!


24 posted on 01/31/2011 1:01:38 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Names Ash Housewares

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.


25 posted on 01/31/2011 1:02:59 PM PST by MeganC (Soli Deo Gloria)
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To: crazydad

Hahahaha ...silly Chinese


26 posted on 01/31/2011 1:27:56 PM PST by spetznaz (Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
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To: KarlInOhio
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...
27 posted on 01/31/2011 1:34:22 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: KarlInOhio
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...
28 posted on 01/31/2011 1:34:32 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: Axenolith

Arggg... out of practice posting FAIL!


29 posted on 01/31/2011 1:35:23 PM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: driftdiver

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


30 posted on 01/31/2011 1:51:45 PM PST by MeganC (Soli Deo Gloria)
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To: MeganC
‘The Ministry of Tofu’ website is coincidentally down right now.

Good. I hate Tofu.

FMCDH(BITS)

31 posted on 01/31/2011 2:20:12 PM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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