The Chinese passes off Top Gun clip as military footage

[E CLASS]

Video: CCTV passes off Top Gun clip as military footage - Shanghaiist

Enjoy...!!

 

[Godot]

Makes a change from Hollywood re writing History I suppose or could it be that China, now owning most things American, like their HUGE debt, also own the film ?

 

[grober]

The ultimate irony was that the "enemy MIG " in Top Gun was an American Northrop F5 "shot down " by Tom Cruise in a F14 Tomcat. So the US navy shooting down one of their own planes has its own slightly "macabre twist on reality " already built into the film.
Northrop F-5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Dryce]

The ultimate irony was that the "enemy MIG " in Top Gun was an American Northrop F5 "shot down " by Tom Cruise in a F14 Tomcat. So the US navy shooting down one of their own planes has its own slightly "macabre twist on reality " already built into the film.
Northrop F-5 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ultimate irony?

Nah. Real world is much better at that sort of thing.

That was maybe the Argentinian Navy using Type 42 destroyers.

Or the Iranians using F14s.

 

[grober]

Or the British guidance system [ allegedly] on the Super Etendard launched AM39 Exocet missile that caused irreparable damage/ disabled the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Sheffield on 4 May 1982 and the two Exocet anti-ship missiles that struck the 15,000 ton merchant ship Atlantic Conveyor on 25 May1982 during the Falklands conflict.

 

[Dryce]

Or the British guidance system [ allegedly] on the Super Etendard launched AM39 Exocet missile that caused irreparable damage/ disabled the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Sheffield on 4 May 1982 and the two Exocet anti-ship missiles that struck the 15,000 ton merchant ship Atlantic Conveyor on 25 May1982 during the Falklands conflict.

AFAIAA the guidance system was French. The UK reportedly had some sort of contractual agreement in place that they weren't allowed to examine it in the missiles supplied to the RN. If that was the case then it presumably wasn't British.

Ironically - Exocet - despite the hype - only once hit its intended target during the conflict. HMS Glamorgan was the only intended target that was hit. The other related irony is that of the three ships hit it was HMS Glamorgan that survived so arguably (on a technicality!) Exocet never sunk its intended targets.

 

[Charles Morgan]

The other irony of the conflict was that the only pre-WW11 warship, the Belgrano, was sunk by the only pre - WW11 torpedo - the Mark VIII** 21 inch fired by HMS Conqueror and supplied (coincidentally) by Mr Morgan senior.

 

[JOB-BLACK-RAT]

The other irony of the conflict was that the only pre-WW11 warship, the Belgrano, was sunk by the only pre - WW11 torpedo - the Mark VIII** 21 inch fired by HMS Conqueror and supplied (coincidentally) by Mr Morgan senior.

Gotcha?

 

[Dryce]

The other irony of the conflict was that the only pre-WW11 warship, the Belgrano, was sunk by the only pre - WW11 torpedo - the Mark VIII** 21 inch fired by HMS Conqueror and supplied (coincidentally) by Mr Morgan senior.

I've wondered whether HMS Venturer's successful attack on U-864 used the Mark VIII weapon.

If so that gives the Mark VIII a remarkable pair of 'firsts' - 37 years apart.

 

[grober]

AFAIAA the guidance system was French. The UK reportedly had some sort of contractual agreement in place that they weren't allowed to examine it in the missiles supplied to the RN. If that was the case then it presumably wasn't British.

As far as I remember BAE systems supplied some electronic circuitry for part of the guidance system but were not responsible for the integrated design of the system per se as you correctly stated.

you might be interested in these Hansard excerpts:-
Falklands Campaign (Argentine Weapons and Equipment) (Hansard, 16 November 1982)

Exocet Missiles (Hansard, 22 November 1982)

Exocet Guidance System (Hansard, 7 March 1983)

 

[Dryce]

Bodes well for the projected "Can we borrow some of your planes s'il vous plait " scenario for our 2 new "aircraftless" carriers. http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1983/mar/07/exocet-guidance-system

Some of what happened in '82 bodes rather better than people might imagine.

That said - I'd rather the we retained our strategic independence from the EU with regard to our military.