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MOVIE: China's Top Gun with J-10s

We hesitate to show you this movie, Sky Fighters, but we'll at least give you fair warning. This  attempt to wrap the PLAAF's J-10 in Top Gun's blockbuster meme is ... well, let's put it this way: Compared to Sky Fighters, Top Gun's plot is Mamet-like and its dialogue is Shakespearean. And, compared to Sky Fighters, King Kong of the 1930s may have had better special effects. But you do see crudely animated J-10s in simulated combat, pulling Pugachev's Cobra manoeuvre against, of all fighters, the Su-30 rip-off J-11, and going inverted to communicate with the cockpit of a non-country-specific F-16. So microwave some popcorn, lower your artistic expectations and enjoy the show ...

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