Chinese military rips scenes from 'Transformers' and other Hollywood blockbusters for this propaganda video touting its bombers

• The Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) posted a video to Weibo over the weekend touting the capabilities of its H-6K bombers.
• The video shows an attack on an airfield that resembles Andersen Air Force Base on Guam.
• While the PLAAF video includes actual footage of Chinese bombers in flight, the video also pulls in several scenes from big Hollywood films, such as "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "The Rock," the South China Morning Post first reported.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force posted a new video to an official social media page over the weekend touting its bomber force. The propaganda video includes several scenes from big Hollywood films.

The short video — "God of War H-6K, attack!," a reference to its H-6 bomber — is set to dramatic music and shows an attack on an airbase.

The scenes of Chinese bomber aircraft in flight appear to be real PLAAF footage, but the combat scenes look like they were taken from the films "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," "The Hurt Locker," and "The Rock." (The links go to the relevant scenes from the movies)

Here's the "attack" footage from the new PLAAF video showing scenes from the three movies.

A source close to the Chinese military told the South China Morning Post that it is not uncommon for the Chinese military to "borrow" scenes from Hollywood films.

"Almost all of the officers in the department grew up watching Hollywood movies, so in their minds, American war films have the coolest images," SCMP's source said.

SCMP reported that back in 2011, Chinese state-run broadcaster CCTV presented footage of a training exercise that included scenes from "Top Gun."

The scenes from Hollywood films are not the only notable inclusions in the PLAAF video though.

Included in the airbase attack scene is satellite footage of an airfield that Reuters reports "looks exactly like the layout of" the US military's Andersen Air Force Base on Guam, an important strategic location for US operations in the Pacific and a likely target in a US-China conflict.

The Chinese PLAAF bomber force currently consists of variations of the H-6 bomber, a Chinese version of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 bomber, though newer aircraft are being developed.

"In recent years, China has fielded greater numbers of the H-6K, a modernized H-6 variant that integrates standoff weapons and features more-efficient turbofan engines for extended-range," the Department of Defense wrote in its latest China Military Power report.

"The H-6K," the report further explained, "can carry six [Land Attack Cruise Missiles], giving the PLA a long-range standoff precision strike capability that can range Guam from home airfields in mainland China."

Among the Chinese military assets available for strikes on Guam are also DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missiles, which can carry both conventional and nuclear warheads.

Lately, China's air force has been focused on Taiwan.

In just two days last week, the Chinese military conducted 37 sorties involving fighter jets, bombers, and other aircraft that saw planes crossing the midline of the Taiwan Strait and crossing into Taiwan's air defense identification zone.

Chinese Ministry of National Defense spokesman Ren Guoqiang said at a press briefing last Friday that the exercises were "legitimate and necessary action taken to safeguard China's sovereignty and territorial integrity in response to the current situation in the Taiwan Strait."