Military Vehicles

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Originally Posted by k9870

I know to use guns in a movie you just rent them, but wondering, where do they get tanks, armored personell carriers, gunships?

One of two places...

(1.) They get the Department of Defense to participate, and the DoD loans them the vehicles/aircraft and accompanying operators/crew. (This happens very, very rarely, because the DoD will never support productions that have negative attitudes towards the military - leaving out most of Hollyweird.)
(2.) They rent the vehicles from special companies that keep a large inventory of military vehicles, or civilian vehicles mocked up as military vehicles. (This is how it's done probably 99% of the time.)

Army Trucks, Inc. is probably one of the biggest rental companies for military vehicles in the U.S.:

http://armytrucks.com/

Most of the military vehicles you see in American films come from this company, including the mock-up M1 Abrams tanks that you've seen in movies like "Hulk", "Cloverfield", "Jarhead", etc.