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Comparison between the Chinese Air Force video (above) and the scene from the American movie “The Hurt Locker” – Source: Weibo
On September 25, at a press conference on the ongoing U.S. Courageous Shield exercise, Gen. Jeremy T. Sloane – Andersen Air Base Commander in Guam in the Pacific – voice over video simulating a attack by the Chinese Air Force.
“About that video, they know that we are training. It is a propaganda video. The video was created only to pressure and oppose us” – explained General Jeremy T. Sloane.
General Jeremy T. Sloane also noted: “We are always concerned about the protection of this island and our people.”
Before that, on September 19, the Chinese Air Force on his Weibo account, a 2 minute 15 second video contains Name: “H-6K, exit!”, Which shows a bomber launching a missile towards an unknown base.
Based on a satellite photo, the Reuters news agency said the runway the Chinese military fired the missile on in the video is identical to the runway at Andersen Air Base on Guam in the United States.
Collin Koh, a researcher at the Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies (IDSS) in Singapore, evaluatedThe video appears to be a Chinese warning to the United States that even supposedly safe places like Guam could be threatened when conflict breaks out in Taiwan or in the South China Sea.
A Weibo account in China reported that the PLAAF video uses some scenes from the movie “The Hurt Locker” – Screenshot
The video was posted as the United States was conducting the Valiant Shield drills around Guam in the western Pacific from September 14 to 25.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet said many warships, including the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, the USS America amphibious assault ship, 100 aircraft and 11,000 military forces participated in the exercise.
However, the video above is said to mimic footage from some Hollywood movies like “Transformers Revenge of the Fallen”,“The Hurt Locker” Y “The rock”.
For example, in the scene 1 minute 7 seconds onwards in the video, the Chinese H-6K bomber airstrike blew up the base and created a giant fireball. However, this scene is like the opening scene of the movie. “The Hurt Locker” (film on the theme of the Iraq war, won an Oscar in 2010), according to the newspaper Apple.
Newspaper Apple citing comments from some network users: “They use American computer graphics to attack American bases!”, “Does the Chinese military thank the Americans?” On Weibo, Chinese netizens even discovered the use of Hollywood movies by the Chinese military.
