15 Minutes of War (L'Intervention): Difference between revisions
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15 Minutes of War (L'Intervention): Difference between revisions
[[Image:M48-Yugo-Mauser.jpg|thumb|none|400px|Yugoslavian M48 Zastava Mauser - 7.92x57mm Mauser]]
[[Image:TheIntervention Mauser 1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The soldier carries his rifle upside-down while climbing the ladder of a tower. Note the sling slot cut in the stock and the beveled bolt handle with a half-cut ball at the end; all features of a post-WWII Yugoslavian Mauser.]]
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In the last moment of the gunfight, Somalian soldiers throw [[OF 37 hand grenade]]s, which are thrown back by Gendarmes and Jane ([[Olga Kurylenko]]).
==OF 37==
In the last moment of the gunfight, Somalian soldiers throw [[OF 37 hand grenade]]s, which are thrown back by the Gendarmes and Jane ([[Olga Kurylenko]]).
[[File:OF37-M35fuse.jpg|thumb|none|250px|OF 37 hand grenade with Mle 1935 fuze]]
[[File:OF37-M35fuse.jpg|thumb|none|250px|OF 37 hand grenade with Mle 1935 fuze]]
[[Image:TheIntervention Grenade 1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A grenade lands in the bus.]]
[[Image:TheIntervention Grenade 1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A grenade lands in the bus.]]
L'Intervention (The Intervention, English title: 15 Minutes of War) is a 2019 French action movie directed by Fred Grivois. The movie is directly inspired by the real-life rescue of French hostages by members of the French Foreign Legion and, at the time, new, small, and relatively unknown French counterterrorist unit GIGN outside of the village of Loyada, Djibouti in 1976.
February, 1976. Militants belonging to the pan-Somali guerilla movement Front de Libération de la Côte des Somalis (FLCS) hijack a bus carrying 31 children of French servicemen deployed to the area. In response, France executes a joint mission between the French Foreign Legion and GIGN, who initiate a daring rescue which begins with a simultaneous sniper shot.
The following weapons were used in the film L'Intervention:
The leader of the terrorists (Kevin Layne) uses a MAC Mle 1950 to threaten the teacher and kill a French Gendarme. Later, Jane (Olga Kurylenko) takes the pistol from the dead terrorist to defend the children. Some uniformed French Gendarmes and soldiers carry the pistol as well.
The GIGN snipers use the MAS FR F1 as their primary weapon to execute a very efficient coordinated shot. The scopes used seem to be civilian-grade models.
CIA observer Shafer (Ben Cura) joins the GIGN team when they realize they are down a man for the coordinated sniper shot. Captain Gerval gives him a MAS-49/56 for use during the mission.
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