China does this often, and it's not for internal consumption. Releasing info this way achieves deterrent objectives, as foreign military intel can tell what's genuine info, but it also affords the Chinese government plausible deniability diplomatically since military intel generally can't release to the public their methods for ascertaining the veracity of these unofficial releases.
If This Is True, It Will Change Entire Ball Games Of Air Defenses
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China does this often, and it's not for internal consumption. Releasing info this way achieves deterrent objectives, as foreign military intel can tell what's genuine info, but it also affords the Chinese government plausible deniability diplomatically since military intel generally can't release to the public their methods for ascertaining the veracity of these unofficial releases.
Haha. This reminds me of the micro-parasite satellite story that got published by the Pentagon. When they traced back their sources they found out that it was an YY article (actually we don't know for sure) on a Chinese defence forum. Must've been pretty frustrating for those guys.