Chinese Use Footage from "Top Gun," Claim it was a "Live Fire Exercise"

There are fears that the Chinese have been gaining on the United States technologically in the last few years.  President Obama has slowed military technology and cancelled funding for F-22s, while new secret photographs show that China is developing new fighter jets.

However, the Chinese government apparently does not know who Tom Cruise is.  At the very least, their news agencies did not realize that, while their citizens have not seen many Western films, that the U.S. has.

In a recent news cast, the Chinese media was touting new, live fire exercises.  They then showed footage of the dog-fights.  The problem is, they simply used clips from the 1986 film 'Top Gun.'  Here is the original footage from the news cast:



And here is the footage, slowed down and compared to the movie:



I didn't realize Tom Cruise was big over there!

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