9th Company: Difference between revisions
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The [[RPG-7]], mounted with a PGO-7 scope, is used by the Mujahideen alongside [[RPG-18|RPG-18s]] to attack the 9th Company. They are also carried by Soviet Paratroopers, but without a scope. A glaring error is that in several shots it is apparent that there is no loaded rocket when the RPG is fired.
The [[RPG-7]], mounted with a PGO-7 scope, is used by the Mujahideen alongside [[RPG-18|RPG-18s]] to attack the 9th Company. They are also carried by Soviet Paratroopers, but without a scope. A glaring error is that in several shots it is apparent that there is no loaded rocket when the RPG is fired.
[[File:9thCo Recruit RPG-7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Soviet recruit holds an RPG-7 over his head during a march.]]
[[File:9thCo Paratrooper RPG-7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A 9th Company Paratrooper climbs up to Hill 3234, carrying a slung RPG-7.]]
[[File:Rpg-7.jpg|thumb|none|450px|RPG-7 with PG-7VM rocket and PGO-7 scope - 40mm]]
[[File:Rpg-7.jpg|thumb|none|450px|RPG-7 with PG-7VM rocket and PGO-7 scope - 40mm]]
[[File:9thCo Mujahideen RPG-7.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Muhjadeen fires an RPG-7 fitted with a PGO-7 scope at 9th Company. In a glaring error, there is actually no rocket visible before and when he fires.]]
[[File:9thCo Mujahideen RPG-7 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Another Muhjadeen fires an RPG-7. The same error in the above shot is repeated in this one.]]
[[File:9thCo Mujahideen RPG-7 3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Muhjadeen attaches a PG-7VM rocket to his RPG.]]
[[File:9thCo Mujahideen RPG-7 4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The Muhjadeen fires his RPG-7.]]
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9th Company (9 POTA) is a 2005 Russian language film about a group of Soviet Recruits from Basic Training to combat in the mountains of Afghanistan, during the Afghan-Russo War (1979-1989). The story deals with the idealistic young Paratroopers, assigned to the 9th Company, who are fighting a desperate battle against the Mujahideen fighters in the final days of the doomed conflict. It is (loosely) based on the Battle for Hill 3234.
The following firearms are used in the film 9th Company:
Soviet Paratroopers use the AKS-74, differentiated from the AK-74 by its folding stack (or lack of buttstock), in both training and combat in Afghanistan. The Muhjadeen fighters also use them. Their heavier-then-expected use amongst the 9th Company in both training and combat is undoubtedly due to their lightweight and the ability to fold the buttstock, making them ideal for paratroopers.
Several 9th Company Paratroopers use the PKM Machine Gun: Chugainov (Ivan Kokorin) is given Samylin's old gun, which suffered a bend in the barrel due to a hand grenade explosion. He can be seen in one scene trying to sight it to fire at a rock 3m away. One of the paratroopers grabs the barrel of his PKM to bash a Mujahideen and sustains 3rd degree burns in the process.
The DShK Heavy Machine Gun is seen mounted on the turret of T-72 tanks. As this is a Russian-produced film, the DsHk's in the film are authentic, and not the M2 mock-ups commonly seen in American productions.
The AK-74 mounted GP-25 grenade launcher is used by Warrant Officer Khokol Pogrebnyak (Fyodor Bondarchuk) and Afanasiy (Dmitriy Mukhamadeev). This Grenade Launcher was first introduced in the 1980s and was referred to as the BG15. A later updated version would be the GP-30.
The RPG-7, mounted with a PGO-7 scope, is used by the Mujahideen alongside RPG-18s to attack the 9th Company. They are also carried by Soviet Paratroopers, but without a scope. A glaring error is that in several shots it is apparent that there is no loaded rocket when the RPG is fired.
The main grenade carried by the Soviet Paratroopers is the World War Two-era F-1 Hand Grenade, even though the RGD-5 was standard issue from the 1960's onward.
F-1 High-Explosive Fragmentation Hand Grenade
RGD-5 Hand Grenade
Giaconda Petrovsky (Soslan Fidarov) throws an RGD-5 Hand Grenade into a Mujahideen tunnel complex in the aftermath of the Convoy Ambush.
