How can Hollywood use real military vehicles/aircraft/navalships in their movies?
155828
Most of the time they dont "let" the company's borrow anything. They have the soldiers accompany the equipment, they get filmed and they go back to post. But you figure most of the time its not real anyway. I mean with all the video technology these days you can pretty much create anything you wanted to for half of the cost of whgat it would have cost in real life. Look at the movie, True Lies, they really did not have a Harrier out there its all props and special effects.
878766
Actually they are not currently building aircraft carriers of their own....just studying the possibilities.\n\nThey are most likely going to add more of the casino carriers.  They already have 4 of them, Russian ships such as the Kirov and the Kiev.\n\nYup, a copy Nimitz is sitting in a lake now.  Strange huh?\n\nHere it is:\n\nhttp://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=k&q=China&ie=UTF8&om=1&z=17&ll=31.10531,121.015059&spn=0.004547,0.010729
58002
The RQ-3 Dark Star unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was operated by the US Air Force is the coolest military planes till date.\n\nThe Dark Star can take off, fly to its target, operate its sensors, transmit information, return and land without human intervention.It carried either an optical sensor or radar, and could send digital information to a satellite while still in flight.\n\nthe first such example had been used in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
196837
That would be the the United States, the Russians equipment is junk and out-dated. Alot of it sat in port to long and rusted away, and they have salvaged most of it out. Our Navy could wipe out a whole country with-out ever setting foot on their land. We have submarines with missiles, and aircraft carriers. You don't have any idea of the firepower, one aircraft carrier would be all that would be needed. I served in the U.S. Navy for 15 years and am currently retired. spc 8, machinist, sp ops, I have 3 purple hearts, and a silver Navy cross from 1982. What is happening with our military right now, is unnecessary with the ground troops, it is ridiculous, and they are expendable to our government. It's all politics on both sides. Good luck to you.
599113
It is a movie about fictional event.
511004
No offense. F-22 Raptor, capabilities classified of course.\nStick jockeys not engaging in "dogfights" today son; stand off aerial combat. Weapons specialists are now TOP GUNS.\nRussians also way ahead in ground/low orbit satellite laser technology.\nTo answer your real ?. F-14 more aerodynamically suited for "balls to the wall" showdown.
760624
Russian designers and Russian technology in general has over the years been vastly underestimated. In the west, especially the US over hype and promote their weapons systems as though they were a feature film! The Russian ministry of defence gives away very little and this has always been the case. I wouldn't be too surprised at what these systems can do. Also if they are showing these aircraft at parades and issuing them to stunt teams, just think about the weapons which will not show you!!!
194252
They did use under ground testing, such as at the Nevada Test Site.  They also used a remote island with a mock town and navy fleet to see how those would be effected.
578530
Yup!  They used it in the movie E.T., and it flew!  I'm sure you can find it on Ebay or something.
54655
It looks real in those movies.
553563
there not,we have had a whole new system in operation for awhile now.and every day we are getting newer high tech weapons to use.for a true,more explained detail try to send that question (WHICH IS A GOOD QUESTION) to the TV show MAIL CALL. i don't know if you have seen the show,but they answer questions such as yours in detail.its a military show about the equipment used in wars. I'm sorry i don't have the email to them but you probably can get it by looking up the shows name MAIL CALL on the web.
506153
Technically, any military aircraft that the President is riding on can be called Air Force One. The fact that there are specially built planes for this purpose isn't central. In fact, there are multiple planes built for presidential use, and whichever one he is riding on counts as Air Force Once.\n\nSame would apply, theoretically, to naval vessels. If the President were traveling on any naval vessel, that could be designated as Navy One. Again, the fact that there is not a specific boat built for that purpose isn't crucial.\n\nAs for choppers, if the helicopter were Army instead of Marine, then theoretically that would be Army One. I don't think ground vehicles carry that designation, however, though hovercraft might.
940152
sure it is *possible*....easy, even. \n\nyou would, however, be violating the intellectual and trade property rights of the studio that funded the production if you did this.
727751
I've seen a lot of CG boats running up and down the Detroit River and most of them have guns mounted.  I'd think a quick ration of GMs to CG ships to GL CG ships would provide a decent precentage.
441905
Ivan Danko (Schwarzenegger) uses a gun called "Podbyrin 9.2 mm". Its actually a modified western Desert Eagle Magnum. The Podbyrin does not exist. Its a made up prop for the movie.
1172048
Yes, they shoot them, but the ammunition that they use does not possess the projectile only the explosive compound ("blanks").  However, human error has attributed to death on the set (Brandon Lee, Mark Heckstrom-I think that was his name)and I am sure others who I am unable to name!
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First of all, don't listen to adm_maaf. I was on a tank in Iraq that took about a dozen rpgs while it was there, and all they did was scratch the paint. That said, an aerial bomb has a hell of a lot more destructive energy than an rpg. Not to mention the 30mm chain gun on the A-10 was specifically designed to penetrate armor. Good thing they're on our side.