Did China Attempt to Pass Off Top Gun As Air Force Footage? [Substitutions]

a couple of days ago, China Central Television showed footage of what they claimed was an air force training exercise conducted on January 23. From the looks of things, they were actually just playing clips from Top Gun.

The clips in question were reportedly aired in the course of the News Broadcast program on China Central Television, the main state television broadcast company. They supposedly showed a J-10 fighter firing a missile at another aircraft during a convention exercise.

But an online commenter quickly observed that the aircraft the J-10 was shown shooting down was an F-5, an American aircraft, and the very one Tom Cruise guns down in a scene from Top Gun. Comparing frames from the CCTV broadcast (left) and Top Gun (right), well, they’re lookin’ very nearly identical.

So that’s amusing. There’s no word yet on whether or not the Chinese fighter pilots engaged in any beach volleyball after the exercises. [ MiniTofu via Geekosystem ]

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