Movie Weapons

[JagLover]

jimmyjimjim said:

Hopefully not; the M-134 7.62mm minigun is possibly a tad heavy - I remember reading a couple of accounts that basically said the military looked at the idea on a few occasions, and decided that it would weigh so much that it wouldn't be portable, and the amount of ammunition you could carry was essentially nothing.

"I let off 200 rounds from the minigun"...well that was the first 2 seconds, what were you firing for the other 30...

I'd rather not carry 3000 rounds, let alone the gun as well!

Any references? Genuinly interested because I also believed it was a real weapon for some time.

True enough, and it certainly doesn't work from a small portable battery.

[Don1]

Civpilot said:

"I'm not a good shot... but the Samariton here fires really big bullets"

Wait until you see the new one - it rocks. Hard. Mate of mine made it (and a few other goodies).

[telecat]

JagLover said:

telecat said:

The FN P90 from Stargate SG-1. Started out as a "Personal Defence Weapon" mainly bought as a straight Assault Rifle.

Did they change their guns and ammo in Stargate SG1?. In the movie (and the 1st engagement in the TV series) the bullets were bouncing off the armour of the enemy. Later they went through.

I think the original Film used Mainly M16's and M4's. If they were 9mm HK MP5 and 7's Then they have an excuse as they wouldn't penetrate body armour. I'm not sure if they started out with them in SG-1 but the P90 seems to have been the weapon of choice from season 2. It has a smaller caliber bullet (5.7x28mm), but carries 50 of them in a magazine that's flat on top of the weapon. It was designed to replace 9mm pistols and sub machine pistols. The P90 ammo will penetrate body armour where the 9mm wouldn't. In practice if the P90 cartridge will penetrate the armour so should the 5.56mm the M4 and M16 use.

Edited by telecat on Friday 25th January 15:03

[Pesty]

Sin City.

Marv's gun Gladys

springfield Armoury M-1911 and his mits

[Martin_Hx]

Cant believe no one has mentioned the Predators shoulder mounted plasma cannon thingy

[Fume Troll]

Martin_Hx said:

Cant believe no one has mentioned the Predators shoulder mounted plasma cannon thingy

You'd be right not to.

Cheers,

FT.

[glazbagun]

JagLover said:

jimmyjimjim said:

Hopefully not; the M-134 7.62mm minigun is possibly a tad heavy - I remember reading a couple of accounts that basically said the military looked at the idea on a few occasions, and decided that it would weigh so much that it wouldn't be portable, and the amount of ammunition you could carry was essentially nothing.

"I let off 200 rounds from the minigun"...well that was the first 2 seconds, what were you firing for the other 30...

I'd rather not carry 3000 rounds, let alone the gun as well!

Any references? Genuinly interested because I also believed it was a real weapon for some time.

True enough, and it certainly doesn't work from a small portable battery.

It was an XM214, apparently:

http://www.kitsune.addr.com/Firearms/Machine-Guns/...

From IDMB, though I'd heard it from other places, too:

"The weapon that Blain (Jesse Ventura) is using is a minigun. This is a weapon most commonly mounted on the side of a helicopter (or an aircraft carrier) and many, many modifications had to be made to make it usable in the film. It was powered via an electrical cable hidden down the front of Blain's trousers. The firing rate was slowed down to approximately 1/3rd the normal rate of fire, both to reduce consumption of blanks, and to make the spinning of the barrels visible on film. It is rumored that Ventura had to wear a bulletproof vest because of the forceful ejection of spent cartridges, but this is false. Unmodified miniguns eject out of the bottom, with the cases essentially falling out due to the force of gravity. Close examination of the film (especially the scene in which Mac fires the minigun at the fleeing predator, along with the other commandos) show that the ejection of the minigun was not changed."

http://www.montysminiguns.com/MoviePage.htm

Oh, and I almsot forgot- remember the minigun platforms they welded into the corridors in Aliens? I'd love a few on my roof, come the zombie apocalypse.

[Don1]

Those last things now exist - Isreali remote gun sentries (I think). El Reg had a report on them, for their 'Rise of the Machines' thing.

[Kuroblack350]

splitter / judas said:

daveco said:

The agents' gun in the Matrix. The Desert Eagle 5.0 has to be the coolest handgun available.

Walther PPK/P99 with silencer.

Prett sure it's a DE. There are a few different calibres available, but .50 would seem reasonable...

[rhinochopig]

Don1 said:

Those last things now exist - Isreali remote gun sentries (I think). El Reg had a report on them, for their 'Rise of the Machines' thing.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2132365054951907317 and I thought they just made TVs and phones

Edited by rhinochopig on Friday 25th January 15:18

[thebluebus]

Martin_Hx said:

Cant believe no one has mentioned the Predators shoulder mounted plasma cannon thingy

Except I did right in the very first post.

thebluebus said:

Favourite weapons from the movies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/21/nweapon121.xml 

We can do better than that, surely?

I like the Xray guns from Eraser. Or pulse rifles from Aliens. Or Rosa Krebb's shoe-knife. Or Catherine Trammell's voracious minge. Or the Predator's zooming blaster. Or Jason's machete. Or Tom Savini's knob gun from From Dusk til Dawn. Or anybody with a big axe.

Do like the lightsabres though, obviously.

Although you're forgiven for missing it with my utterly cack description

[Maxf]

thebluebus said:

Martin_Hx said:

Cant believe no one has mentioned the Predators shoulder mounted plasma cannon thingy

Except I did right in the very first post.

thebluebus said:

Favourite weapons from the movies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/21/nweapon121.xml 

We can do better than that, surely?

I like the Xray guns from Eraser. Or pulse rifles from Aliens. Or Rosa Krebb's shoe-knife. Or Catherine Trammell's voracious minge. Or the Predator's zooming blaster. Or Jason's machete. Or Tom Savini's knob gun from From Dusk til Dawn. Or anybody with a big axe.

Do like the lightsabres though, obviously.

Although you're forgiven for missing it with my utterly cack description

Its a bit crap though really unless he fires it unseen - everyone else manages to get out of the way of it. I like his expanding spear thingy - oooerr

[BLUETHUNDER]

jimmyjimjim said:

BLUETHUNDER said:

glazbagun said:

BLUETHUNDER said:

dougc said:

Jesse Ventura's minigun in Predator



Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here. This stuff will make you a god damned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me.

That minigun was actually a real weapon.

From a helicopter gunship! IIRC, they had to run around with a battery/generator when filming, didnt they?

It works off a small battery inside a pack attached to the magazine holder.

Hopefully not; the M-134 7.62mm minigun is possibly a tad heavy - I remember reading a couple of accounts that basically said the military looked at the idea on a few occasions, and decided that it would weigh so much that it wouldn't be portable, and the amount of ammunition you could carry was essentially nothing.

"I let off 200 rounds from the minigun"...well that was the first 2 seconds, what were you firing for the other 30...

I'd rather not carry 3000 rounds, let alone the gun as well!

Any references? Genuinly interested because I also believed it was a real weapon for some time.

The one i saw your side of the water was a smaller variation on the GAU 17.I think its XM 214.It was really impressive firing down range.But it expended a whole mag rack in seconds.

[Mannginger]

rhinochopig said:

Don1 said:

Those last things now exist - Isreali remote gun sentries (I think). El Reg had a report on them, for their 'Rise of the Machines' thing.

Australian version - Metal Storm

Edited to put the right link in!

Edited by Mannginger on Friday 25th January 15:31

[BLUETHUNDER]

Just going off topic.But the U.S military did experiment with putting an M62 Vulcan gattling gun on the M113 APC.The M62 is the type to be found on the F14 Tomcat.

[anonymous-user]

Mannginger said:

As on page one plus:

Interesting gun that, looks like the combination of a Thompson M1A1 and a Remington 870 shotgun

Pesty said:

Sin City. Marv's gun, Gladys. Springfield Armoury M-1911 and

Simple, yet so effective

[Don1]

Metal storm not in a movie - yet!

Kill Bill sword was also nice - Atori Hanza (?).

[BLUETHUNDER]

Symbolica said:

Mannginger said:

As on page one plus:

Interesting gun that, looks like the combination of a Thompson M1A1 and a Remington 870 shotgun

Pesty said:

Sin City. Marv's gun, Gladys. Springfield Armoury M-1911 and

Simple, yet so effective

No its based on the Franchi Spas Auto shotgun.

[rhinochopig]

Mannginger said:

rhinochopig said:

Don1 said:

Those last things now exist - Isreali remote gun sentries (I think). El Reg had a report on them, for their 'Rise of the Machines' thing.

Australian version - Metal Storm

Edited to put the right link in!

Edited by Mannginger on Friday 25th January 15:31

That's the weapon system that uses stacked caseless ammo which is fired electrically IIRC. The larger variants can fire at something like 1million RPM!!!

ETA http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=d8hlj4EbdsE&feat...

Edited by rhinochopig on Friday 25th January 15:38

[Fume Troll]

How about the good old phaser?



Not the most exciting perhaps, but with more settings than you can shake a tribble at, and probably one of the first "less than lethal" weapons it could qualify as the thinking man's weapon of choice. The Walther PPK for the 2300's.

Cheers,

FT.