February 5, 2011
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State-sponsored China Central Television recently ran a clip of the country’s newest J-10 fighter engaging in mock combat maneuvers. Evidently at a loss for things to blow up, the clip features an air-to-air missile taking down enemy aircraft from the 1986 film Top Gun.
Although China has not admitted to any fraud, the two clips are obviously identical, and thanks to a Wall Street Journal article from earlier this week, the only visible difference is in the CCTV logos.
Somehow, the J-10 clip did not include any footage of volleyball, nor singing in dive bars. Check out the clip:
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China once again shows that anything cool they do is “borrowed”. Almost makes you want to pre-emptively nuke them, i mean send the MPAA after them (same thing??)
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