On stations such as Republic TV, Times Now Navbharat, TV9 Bharatvarsh and Zee Hindustan recently saw a report about an alleged air strike by the Pakistani military on the Afghan province of Punjir. In the excerpt, which comes from Hasti TV according to a logo, you can see a fighter aircraft that is under heavy fire at a ground defense position. At first glance, the viewer could actually believe that this was real material.
But if you take a closer look, you will quickly see that something is wrong with those scenes. A little later, the embarrassing resolution followed via Twitter: The material is gameplay scenes from the military simulation Arma 3 (buy now), which originally came on the market in 2013. There was therefore no air stop. The Twitter user "Mohammed Zubair" juxtaposed the two videos and thus exposed the error.
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Source: Twitter