China Defense Mashup
China Has A New Propaganda Machine -- and This One Can Fly -- Killer Apps/Foreign Policy
In a move straight from the U.S. Air Force's playbook, China is now fielding its very own flying propaganda broadcast plane.
Chinese state-run media is reporting that the People's Liberation Army Air Force has modified one of its planes -- what appears to be a Y-8 airlifter (basically, Beijing's version of the U.S.-made C-130 Hercules) -- to carry the kind of broadcast equipment capable of taking over a country's radio and TV channels. It's another sign that the Chinese military is slowly starting to close the enormous advantage that the U.S. Air Force has over it in the skies.
The new plane, dubbed the Gaoxin 7, will "give the enemy nervous breakdowns" as it flies through the skies, according to a hype-ridden article by the Chinese state-run Global Times.
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My Comment: Chinese Communists have always had a firm belief in propaganda .... so having a plane to do this is not a surprise .... but what is a surprise it has taken the Chinese this long to have one.
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