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Military Vehicles
I know to use guns in a movie you just rent them, but wondering, where do they get tanks, armored personell carriers, gunships?
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(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. |
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From what I know of, Stargate SG-1 apparently has a division of the Airforce created specifically for the show, when one of the TV movies required a sub, the navy borrowed them one, and apparently the airforce responded by letting them show off F-16s.
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Richard Dean Anderson actually got air force honors once for positive portrayal of air force personell, wouldn't surprise me that they let them show off some jets.
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Yeah, some branches of the military do send entire units to aid productions. "JAG", for instance, used to get enormous amounts of support from the Marines and the Navy, and I think there was a permanent liaison between the production and the DoD set up just for them (I remember one episode of the show where the production was actually loaned several MV-22 Ospreys, and this was before the Osprey had even gotten into service). Also, non-military related, the NYPD has a unit that is intended to aid film productions.
But generally speaking, the DoD is usually pretty cautious about who gets loaned its equipment and personnel. A movie like "Stop-Loss", for instance, would never received DoD support (that movie used Humvees and a fake M1-A1 rented from Army Trucks, Inc.) Last edited by MT2008; 04-28-2009 at 01:17 AM. |
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Weren't there a lot of military support for the Transformer movie? Those Ospreys, F-22s, and that Spectre gunship was really firing on the set.
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"There's a fine line between not listening and not caring...I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life." Blessed be the LORD, my rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle Psalm 144:1 “It is always wrong to use force, unless it is more wrong not to.” |
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