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[[Image:HRM60-1.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Johansson "The Swede" gives supporting fire with his M60E1.]] | [[Image:HRM60-1.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Johansson "The Swede" gives supporting fire with his M60E1.]] | ||
[[Image:HRM60-2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|"The Swede" walks with the rest of his men to the hill, somehow comfortably holding the 23lb M60E1 with one hand. Perhaps it was lightened for the film or perhaps he really is strong enough to hold it like that.]] | [[Image:HRM60-2.jpg|thumb|none|400px|"The Swede" walks with the rest of his men to the hill, somehow comfortably holding the 23lb M60E1 with one hand. Perhaps it was lightened for the film or perhaps he really is strong enough to hold it like that.]] | ||
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[[Image:HRM60-4.jpg|thumb|none|400px|"The Swede" climbs the hill with his M60E1.]] | [[Image:HRM60-4.jpg|thumb|none|400px|"The Swede" climbs the hill with his M60E1.]] | ||
[[Image:HRM60-3.jpg|thumb|none|400px|A Cuban soldier fires an M60E1 out of the armored vehicle.]] | [[Image:HRM60-3.jpg|thumb|none|400px|A Cuban soldier fires an M60E1 out of the armored vehicle.]] |
Revision as of 05:26, 18 August 2008
The following guns are used in the film Heartbreak Ridge
M16 (AR-15/SP1)
In many scenes M16 AR-15/SP1) rifle is seen. Some of them appear to be genuine civilian AR-15/SP1s and aren't seen fired full-auto. Instead, M16A1s seem to be used to depict full-auto fire. That is, until the Grenada sequence, when the Recon platoon's weapons are both M16A1s and M16 rifles, possibly AR-15/SP1's converted to fire full-auto, perhaps to to a lack of enough M16A1 rifles for those scenes.
- What's the language limits of this site? Just to be sure.
M16A1
Seen in the hands of several Recon Marines, used when a fully-automatic weapon is required early in the film, until Grenada when possibly all the weapons were converted to full-auto fire, perhaps do to a lack of M16A1s.
- Look at the magazine release buttons on all of these guns. All of them that I see are missing the "fencing" around the button which tends to distinguish real full-auto M16s from the civilian AR15s (look at the picture of the M16A1 in this entry, and you can see what I mean). Now, the early M16 and CAR15 variants also didn't have the fencing around the mag release, so what I'm guessing is that those are M16A1 upper receiver/barrel assembles slapped onto very early M16 lowers, or possibly AR15 lowers with auto sears. If only MoviePropMaster2008 were around so we could ask him!
Colt 37mm Flare Launcher
One of the Marines has an AR-15/SP1 (or possible M16) fitted with an underslung Colt 37mm flare launcher, made to take the place of the HE M203 40mm launcher.
M60E1
Used by Recon Marine Private Johansson "The Swede", Used inside an armored vehicle by the Cubans, and seen on the helicopter that picks up the Recon men after the operation is complete.
- It's most likely a lightweight polyurethane (read: "rubber") cast of one of the real guns (read: "hero" guns), intended specifically for non-firing scenes.
AKM
Gunnery Sgt. Tom Highway (Clint Eastwood) uses an AKM to teach his recruits in basic training, by shooting at them so they know the distinct sound of an AK-47 being fired at them. Several Cuban soldiers use them as well, just as Highway said they would.
Norinco Type 56
What looks like a Norinco Type 56 is seen lying next to a dead Cuban soldier. This is assumed based on the smooth reciever and front grips. The front sights aren't seen so it is hard to be sure.
DShK
A Cuban soldier is seen firing a DShK heavy machine gun at the Recon Marines. It is most likely an M60D dressed up to look like a DShK, similair to the guns in Red Dawn, as DShKs weren't too common at the time, but it isn't seen close enough to tell. The belt feeding into it does look considerably small though.