![]() Before the war began, in the mid-1930s, Adolf Hitler’s new National Socialist government needed a modern fighter for its nascent Luftwaffe. ![]() and Russia-but the computer skills of the propagandist are apparent in some of these too-obviously Photoshopped and computer-generated images.īack in the bad old days of World War II, all it took to fool the gullible was a dozen leftover fighters nobody knew what to do with, a camera and a few good PR men (including Josef Goebbels). The Chinese air force is indeed huge-third largest in the world, after the U.S. There are stealth fighters and lookalike B-2 bombers, quasi-Harriers and Black Hawk helicopters, Sukhoi clones and MiG-29 knockoffs-many in numbers so vast the parked rows stretch halfway to the horizon. He-100: Heinkel’s Mythical Super-Fighter CloseĪ popular PowerPoint presentation that recently made the rounds via e-mail consisted of photos purporting to show equipment of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force. ![]()
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