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The following guns were used in the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)

Webley Mk VI

File:IJ-Webley.jpg

Indy (Harrison Ford) with his Webley Mk VI.

M1 Carbine

Used by the Russians posing as US Army soldiers and by Indiana Jones at the beginning of the film.

M1919A4/A6?

Seen in screen capture, has a conical muzzle added to it so i'm guessing its a vismod to make it seem more Soviet.

The M1919A6(converted for field use) had a stock, bipod and cone shaped flash hider, But as this modification was extremely clumsy and heavy, US Troops often discarded the stock and bipod therfore returning to the M1919A4.

Its possible this weapon could be a 'captured example' from WW2/Korea? used by the Soviets prior to the PK machine gun?, Im not trying to convice anyone but its just a thought.

It was clear that the weapon was an attempt (a fairly poor one at that) to imitate the design of the KPV. You could tell it was a Browning M1919 by the receiver and trigger, but the conical flash hider and everything else on the gun were from a KPV.

AK-47

At least one screenshot from the movie shows Russian soldiers armed with Type III AK-47 assault rifles (which would have been standard-issue in the Red Army in 1957).

All of the AKs in this movie are actually stamped-receiver Chinese Type 56 and Type 56-1 (including the one used by Cate Blanchett during the chase). Aside from the fact that Russians should not be using Chinese-made weapons, AKs with stamped receivers didn't exist until 1959, and the Chinese didn't go to the stamped receivers until 1963. So, although AKs were around then, these particular models are an anachronism.

AK-47 7.62x39mm.

Russian soldiers firing at Indy with AK-47s.

RPG-7

A Chinese Type 69 copy of the RPG-7 is seen in a poster for the film, and is fired by Indy in the trailer. This is not historically accurate, as the movie is set in 1957, and the RPG-7 was not adopted by the Soviet Union until 1961. In the film, the weapon seems to have been modified to fire a PG-2 rocket-propelled grenade (a round which only the RPG-2 can fire), but the launcher itself is clearly not an RPG-2.

RPG-7 40mm

Poster showing Indiana Jones with an RPG-7.

Tokarev TT-33

Carried by Red Army officers and KGB agents; the versions used in the film are the Chinese Type 54 copy, which would have existed at the time (the '54' refers to the year of its adoption by the PLA), but would not have been used by Russians. You can tell because they have the safety catch, which only Chinese-made Tokarevs have.

Thompson M1928

Seen in the hands of the Russians posing as US Army soldiers at the beginning of the film.

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 Its possible this weapon could be a 'captured example' from WW2/Korea? used by the Soviets prior to the PK machine gun?, Im not trying to convice anyone but its just a thought.
+:It was clear that the weapon was an attempt (a fairly poor one at that) to imitate the design of the KPV. You could tell it was a Browning M1919 by the receiver and trigger, but the conical flash hider and everything else on the gun were from a KPV.
 ==AK-47==
 At least one screenshot from the movie shows Russian soldiers armed with Type III [[AK-47]] assault rifles (which would have been standard-issue in the Red Army in 1957).
+:All of the AKs in this movie are actually stamped-receiver Chinese Type 56 and Type 56-1 (including the one used by Cate Blanchett during the chase). Aside from the fact that Russians should not be using Chinese-made weapons, AKs with stamped receivers didn't exist until 1959, and the Chinese didn't go to the stamped receivers until 1963. So, although AKs were around then, these particular models are an anachronism.
 [[Image:Ak_54.jpg|thumb|200px|none|AK-47 7.62x39mm.]]
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 ==RPG-7==
-A Chinese Type 69 copy of the RPG-7 is seen in a poster for the film, and is fired by Indy in the trailer. This is not historically accurate, as the movie is set in 1957, and the [[RPG-7]] was not adopted by the Soviet Union until 1961.
+A Chinese Type 69 copy of the RPG-7 is seen in a poster for the film, and is fired by Indy in the trailer. This is not historically accurate, as the movie is set in 1957, and the [[RPG-7]] was not adopted by the Soviet Union until 1961. In the film, the weapon seems to have been modified to fire a PG-2 rocket-propelled grenade (a round which only the RPG-2 can fire), but the launcher itself is clearly not an RPG-2.
 [[Image:Rpg-7-1-.jpg‎ |thumb|none|200px|RPG-7 40mm]]
 [[Image:Ij4wp311024hm7.jpg|thumb|400px|none|Poster showing Indiana Jones with an [[RPG-7]].]]
-==RPG-2==
-Seen in screen capture of film.
-It really looked to me like it was an RPG-7; it had the big conical backblast reducer at the end. I realize it's not historically accurate (since, as I say above, the RPG-7 was not in the Soviet inventory until 1961, four years after this movie takes place), but then again, the ''Indiana Jones'' movies have an atrocious record on historical accuracy when it comes to firearms (i.e. in the first three movies, which take place in 1936-37, the Nazis use MP40s and P-38s).
->to above<
-Yeah you may be right but I was judging by the grenade/rocket on it which is not diamond shaped so I'm guessing they meant it to be an RPG-2.
 ==Tokarev TT-33==
-Carried by Red Army officers and KGB agents
+Carried by Red Army officers and KGB agents; the versions used in the film are the Chinese Type 54 copy, which would have existed at the time (the '54' refers to the year of its adoption by the PLA), but would not have been used by Russians. You can tell because they have the safety catch, which only Chinese-made Tokarevs have.
 ==Thompson M1928==