A video purporting to show the spectacular fall of Indian soldiers, perched on scaffolding during a military parade, is making the rounds on social networks. It was actually generated by artificial intelligence.

Published on: 06/05/2026 - 18:27

A video, which has accumulated more than 12 million views on X and TikTok since May 3, makes the Indian army the laughing stock of social networks. It would reveal a spectacular and funny accident during a military parade in India. In the video, a military vehicle topped with scaffolding several stories high carries around twenty soldiers. The Indian army has a tradition of making its soldiers perform acrobatics worthy of circus artists during its parades.

Problem, during the sequence, the scaffolding begins to lean dangerously before collapsing. The unfortunate soldiers then fall pitifully to the ground. “This country [India, Editor’s note] never disappoints us” laughs an Internet user who shares the video.

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This video is fake: it was generated by AI.

Jerky movements, split soldier

Several clues betray the work of artificial intelligence. The movements of fallen soldiers are jerky and unnatural as they try to get up. In the background a soldier even doubles up. He first goes into convulsions and then grows another pair of legs. When he finally got up…another soldier came out of his body.

We can also doubt the reality of the video by the fact that just after the fall, men in military uniform run towards the pick-up and not towards the soldiers, some of whom had fallen from several meters high.

As indicated by the watermark on the video, the author of the video is an Internet user on Tiktok, china.lora. This is a Chinese-speaking account which also displays pro-Pakistan positions. We find on this account several other fake videos of military parades generated by AI, always showing Indian soldiers falling in a funny way.

The Indian army is in fact regularly the target of mockery from certain Chinese and Pakistani Internet users, which can take the form of an information war against India, as the editorial staff of France 24 Observers was able to observe during the conflict between India and Pakistan in June 2025.

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