Weapons in the Red Dawn Remake

[Ace Oliveira]

I'm not citing the video game as proof, Spartan. I'm just showing that John Milius made a Red Dawn game with North Koreans instead of Soviets.

Seriously, Do you think I would really do that?

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Thanks MT, that must have taken you a lot of energy to put down. More than what I can do. I guess US citizens today are more worried about the government suddenly becoming too corrupt and taking away basic rights like the right to bear arms, though that is most certainly an impossibility right next to being invaded

Not really; I'm a grad student in IR. This is the kind of stuff we study. Plus, I've had the good fortune to take classes with some of the most respected people in this field.

[Spartan198]

Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

I'm not citing the video game as proof, Spartan. I'm just showing that John Milius made a Red Dawn game with North Koreans instead of Soviets.

Seriously, Do you think I would really do that?

Well, in my defense, the discussion was centered around the possibility of it happening in real life, influencing how I interpreted it.

[gunguy001]

RD is not filming up here, almost though.
We are not supplying anything, paper work is a nightmare and we are focusing on our new 3D guns for a show we are doing at the moment.

[Markit]

Here's another interesting weapon in the remake, the Norinco Type 67 machine gun:



http://www.imfdb.org/index.php?title...Type-67-II.jpg

And this is what the Russians will look like:

[Ace Oliveira]

That Type 67 looks like a mocked up FN MAG.

And the russians look nothing like real russian soldiers. I could be wrong, though.

[Spartan198]

Originally Posted by Markit

And this is what the Russians will look like:

Vest looks American.

[Excalibur]

But they got the Russian flag on their patches.

[Jcordell]

I remember a board game in the 1980's that was about this very scenario. I forget who made it, but it wasn't Avalon Hill. Anyway I purchased it my sophmore year in college (1987 - 1988).

I and my college buddies spent many hours playing this game. The game gave many advantages to the U.S. to include a anti-missile orbital and ground based laser network. We modified the game removing the laser network and giving the invaders a solid foothold on land - ala Red Dawn. Even handicapping the United States and giving several advantages to the invaders the United States was still almost impossible to defeat entirely. Ultimately logistics made all the differences. The invaders had long supply lines and the U.S. didn't. There were other factors as well such as political and diplomatic, American partisans behind enemy lines etc.

Most of the time the invaders could hope for a deadlock at best and more often than not they found themselves being pushed back.

Could this country fall? Sure,but it would take more than sheer force of arms. We would have to collapse from within for an armed invasion to really be victorious. Sort of like what happened to France in June of 1940 and what didn't happen to France in WWI.

[Spartan198]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

But they got the Russian flag on their patches.

Vests and combat shirts are separate, though.