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[[File:Cuba-1979-UDM42-0.jpg|thumb|none|500px|UD M42 is seen on a promotion still.]]
[[File:Cuba-1979-UDM42-0.jpg|thumb|none|500px|UD M42 is seen on a promotion still.]]
== Thompson M1928A1 ==
== Unknown Thompson-style submachine guns ==
Guerilla fighters and government troops use [[Thompson M1928A1]] SMGs.
=== M1928A1-like version ===
[[File:M1928A1 Thompson.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1928A1 Thompson with 30-round magazine - .45 ACP. This specimen has the sling swivel relocated to the top of the stock, a modification often made to Thompsons in British service.]]
Guerilla fighters and government troops use submachine guns that resemble [[Thompson M1928A1]]s. See [[Talk:Cuba|talk page]] for the discussion of these guns.
[[File:Cuba-1979-SMG-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Thompson M1928A1 at the left, an unknown SMG at the right.]]
[[File:M1928A1 Thompson.jpg|thumb|none|400px|For comparison: M1928A1 Thompson with 30-round magazine - .45 ACP. This specimen has the sling swivel relocated to the top of the stock, a modification often made to Thompsons in British service.]]
[[File:Cuba-1979-SMG-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Thompson is seen in center, next to a Mauser rifle.]]
[[File:Cuba-1979-SMG-2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A fake Thompson M1928A1 at the left, an unknown SMG at the right.]]
[[File:Cuba-1979-Thompson-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A government soldier fires a Thompson during the attack on the train.]]
[[File:Cuba-1979-SMG-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A fake Thompson is seen in center, next to a Mauser rifle.]]
[[File:Cuba-1979-Thompson-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Another guerilla holds a Thompson in the final scene in airport.]]
[[File:Cuba-1979-Thompson-1.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A government soldier fires a fake Thompson during the attack on the train.]]
[[File:Cuba-1979-Thompson-3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Another guerilla holds a fake Thompson in the final scene in airport.]]
Cuba is a 1979 movie directed by Richard Lester and starring Sean Connery as a British mercenary Major Robert Dapes, an expert in counter-guerrilla warfare, who is hired by Cuban government to organise successful operations against Castro's guerrillas. In Habana Dapes meets his love of old days, Alexandra Lopez de Pulido (Brooke Adams) who is now married a wealthy playboy.
Note: the movie was filmed in Spain, which affected the choice of screen guns.
After Julio Mederos' (Danny De La Paz) M1911 jams, he takes a Smith & Wesson New Model No.3 from a fellow girl guerilla fighter. The revolver is possibly a Spanish manufactured version.
Erma EMP-35 SMGs are used by both government troops and guerillas. They are possibly Spanish manufactured Coruña M41/44 in 9x23mm Largo caliber. In one scene Maj. Dapes (Sean Connery) briefly holds an EMP-35, taken from a female guerilla fighter.
In one scene a guerilla fighter fires a submachine gun that resembles experimental Vollmer-Erma VMP 1930 but most likely appears to be a EMP-35 with removed barrel shroud.
Guerilla fighters also carry unknown SMGs that have Thompson-style foregrips, pistol grips and rear sight guards but differs in having large space between the trigger guard and magazine well. Such SMGs are seen in some other Spanish filmed movies, like From Hell to Victory. Their general view allows to guess that they are visually modified Labora Fontbernat M1938 SMGs.
Browning M1919A4 machine guns are mounted on jeeps and M10 tank destroyers of government troops. Larry Gutman (Jack Weston) fires an M1919A4, dismounted from M10.
An M10 Tank Destroyer appears during the battle on gas station. Maj. Dapes captures it from government troops and mans 75mm gun while Larry Gutman performs the duties of driver.
A Cadillac Gage Commando armored car is seen in documentary footage. It bears Spanish red-yellow-red military insignia and has nothing common with Cuba though in the movie it is presented as belonging to Gen. Batista troops.
