Such photoshopping work usually does an counter-productive job for whatever point you want to make.
H-6 Bomber Aircraft Discussions
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This is Google Earth recreation of the original photo release by PLAAF. You missed the more important part.
In relation with Chinese names or ?
Dizasta1
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There is definitely land I can identify in the top right corner of the photo.
My point is that using a doctored photo is going to give the impression that "everything from then on by this person is fake" even though the depiction is reflection of fact. I was not disputing the fact that H-6 actually got that close to the land.
Very often some journalists use substituted photos in their articles regarding a real event. When revealed that the photo is not taken during that event, people come to the conclusion of the journalist being lying and ignore whatever the journalist is saying afterwards, no matter how true. That is counter productive.
For example, BBC has used a photo of riot in Guangdong in their article about another (half year later) riot in Xinjiang, even though the later riot is true, people questioned the authenticity and motivation of what BBC was doing and discarded BBC's future report.
It is very important for anyone to maintain their credit by stating a disclaimer "this photo is a depiction of a real event" if they have to use a substitute or recreation.
But plawolf's point stands.
They put out an onbvious PS...not even a very good one at that to try and show the H-6 coming closer than it actually did.
On the map of the route they took, they were much further away than the photoshop shows...and that's what others were talking about being and remanining within international law.
Of course the Chinese are going to do fly bys...and if they want to get G2 intelligence, they will use electronic surveillance aircraft for that.
The H-6s and any escorting J-11Bs or others are meant to send a message and not so much gather intel.
The message is that we have these bombers and they have a long reach, and we have fighters that can escort them.
All of that is fine.
But if the Chinese were to ever use those aircraft against such a target they would be launching missiles from a long distance away. The fighters might escrot them to the launch point, but they would have no need to risk the aircraft being shot down by coming so close, nor is the H-6K meant to come so close. doing so, like I said is simply sending a message.
Like the B-52s, in any contested air space they are a standoff weapon.
If the US has complete air superiority and dominance, it will send the B-52s in with diret attack munitions. Otherwise they are gouing to use much longer range PGMs. Which is also what the H-6K would do.
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The point of PSing the picture wasn't to demonstrate that the PLAAF flew close to Ryuku, it's to clarify exactly what was in the background. The original picture had a landmass in the background but it was obscured by clouds so someone PSed it to show what was there, which was Naha Airbase.
You mistake its intention to be "looking good", when its actual intention is to "clarify what was in background", and to that end, it achieved its purpose quite well. I now know exactly what was in the background when I didn't before.
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