US military light weapons in "Battle of Los Angeles"

Emmitt 2021-11-11 08:01:16

There is no doubt that this is an American "main theme" film, just like the Marine Corps recruitment advertisements I saw on American TV, it is so exciting.

Bought a large popcorn, and basically didn't move until the end of the movie. The tense plots are one after another.

This alien is different from all previous Hollywood disaster movies. Their ground weapons and equipment are extremely close to humans. Air weapons no longer have invisible shields for force fields. In sharp contrast, the U.S. F22, Apache, AC130, and Predator drones all disappeared without a trace. Even dozens of Chinook CH-47s and UH-1s appeared frequently, and occasionally flashed a few F15 shots without knowing where they were flying.

And it seems that the entire war was completed with the light weapons of a dozen marines without air support at all.

All the US military light weapons appearing in the film are still so rigorous and can withstand scrutiny, but compared with "Black Hawk Down", I am afraid that military fans will be disappointed, because in "Black Hawk", deltas, seals, and rangers , Somali guerrillas took turns on stage, various weapons and their end effects have shown their magical powers, but "Los Angeles" is obviously much inferior in this respect..........The

Marines’ weapons from the beginning to the end are almost It is M16A4, M4 5.56mm assault rifle and M249 Minimi machine gun. It seems that the penetration of small-caliber bullets on alien armor is obviously insufficient. After living anatomy of an alien, they found their deadly organs. The situation seems to be Only then began to have a turnaround. Therefore, in the film, under tension, the soldiers almost always shoot the aliens fully automatically and continuously. The ammunition consumption is huge and the killing effect is not good. In the last two bus battles and the control center battle, the Marines all used 2-3 bursts and repeatedly hit the fuel tanks carried by the aliens (?).

As individual equipment, hand grenades are used extensively in the film. M18 color smoke grenades are used to guide the helicopter to land; AN-M8HC smoke grenades are used before covering everyone on the bus; MK3A2 offensive and M67 defensive grenade encounters in the swimming pool for the first time Aliens, bombing alien drones, bus battles, sewer battles and other battle scenes have outstanding performances.

The 12.7mm M2HB heavy machine gun mounted on the Humvee and the 25mm chain gun on the stryker armored vehicle are regarded as heavy weapons used by marines, and the description of the lethality of the machine gun in the film can be described as a stroke, without shock and beauty. In contrast, military fans must have fresh memories of the Somali guerrillas with M2HB machine guns sweeping the roof in "Black Hawk", and the shots of "Rambo 4" Rambo killing nearly a thousand people with M2 on the roof of the car. The 25mm chain gun is a more ridiculous bridge segment. The line mentions the power of this gun and 250 rounds of shells. In the end, the stryker tank actually hit the aliens with the car body continuously. The captain on the roof only used 7.62 mm. The M240G vehicle-mounted machine gun fired more than a dozen shots sporadically, and the 25mm chain gun was missing.

The military equipment in the film seems to be guided by absolute military experts. For example, in the opening scene of the film, the marines’ backpacks have a standard military Alice jacket "Hump" pressure drinking water bag, but there are many players carrying the retail civilian version of Blackhawk. Three-day assault backpack" and Blacksteram water bag (the U.S. Army does allow soldiers to purchase other equipment other than weapons, and Jerry has both equipment). The standard tactical vest that can be equipped with steel plates and ceramic bullet-proof plates in the film is rarely seen in previous American movies. The accessories on the rifle are much richer than the previous ones, such as the Surefire tactical flashlight, AN/PAQ-4A infrared + laser sight, and the AN/PVS-7B low-light night vision device worn by the US military in the sewer battle.

In the film, the AN/PRC-117 series of military frequency-hopping encrypted radio stations for inter-personal, individual and air support, individual and base communications are the eternal pain of Chinese military enterprises. Only two hands on eBay only cost more than 500 US dollars. , But if you don’t sell it to China, whoever sells it will be invited by the FBI to drink tea.

In the final battle, there was a shot of the heroine on the bayonet. We can see that the US military's M9 bayonet has been replaced with M10. The M10 is lighter and "dagger-like" than the M9, that is, the blade becomes thinner and narrower. The dissection of aliens uses the KA-BAR 1217 fighting knife that the US Marines like.

In the film, the cadet commander who sacrificed himself used explosives to blow up the aliens with the "Handheld BMX Rocket Launcher". It can be seen from several close-up labels of the explosive that this is a 1.25-pound C4 high explosive commonly used by the US military.

Three soldiers in this combat team are equipped with M203 gun-mounted grenade launchers. This weapon almost acts as a "heavy artillery" and has given heavy blows to the aliens on many occasions.

It seems to be inspired by the Somali guerrillas' use of RPG-7 rocket launchers to shoot down Black Hawk helicopters. The grinning Female One finally used the AT4 84mm anti-tank rocket launcher to shoot down the alien interception aircraft.

However, it is estimated that it is still subject to cost constraints. , The film did not fully demonstrate the US military's weapon strike capabilities like "Transformers" and "Black Hawk Down". If you are a die-hard military fan, you can’t expect much from "Battle of Los Angeles"

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Extended Reading

Battle Los Angeles quotes

  • SSgt. Michael Nantz: It's OK to cry.

  • Cpl. Kevin Harris: You saw that?

    TSgt. Elena Santos: [laughs] They're going down like bowling pins!