9th Company: Difference between revisions
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[[File:9thCo Chugainov PKM 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Chugainov attempts to sight in the PKM. Note the bent barrel.]]
[[File:9thCo Chugainov PKM 2.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Chugainov attempts to sight in the PKM. Note the bent barrel.]]
[[File:9thCo Chugainov PKM 3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Chugainov fires the PKM.]]
[[File:9thCo Chugainov PKM 3.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Chugainov fires the PKM.]]
[[File:9thCo Mujahideen PKM.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Mujahideen fires his PKS from the hip.]]
[[File:9thCo Mujahideen PKM.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A Mujahideen fires his PKM from the hip.]]
[[File:9thCo Chugainov PKM 4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Chugainov loads a belt of 7.62x54mm into the chamber of his PKM.]]
[[File:9thCo Chugainov PKM 4.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Chugainov loads a belt of 7.62x54mm into the chamber of his PKM.]]
[[Image:9Rota-PKM2a.jpg |thumb|none|600px|Chugainov carries his PKM, holding it by the bipod, as he and the 9th Company search an Afghan village.]]
[[Image:9Rota-PKM2a.jpg |thumb|none|600px|Chugainov carries his PKM, holding it by the bipod, as he and the 9th Company search an Afghan village.]]
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Error creating thumbnail: File missingMovie poster for 9th Company (2005) (Russia)Error creating thumbnail: File missingRussian language poster for 9th Company aka 9 POTA (2005) (Russia). Note: Though IMDB lists the Russian name as "9 POTA" the cyrillic in the poster reads 9 "Roh-ta" with the "r" rolled on the tip of the tongue like in Spanish. Thus the 'phonetic' English wording used for the International Title is actually incorrect.
9th Company (9 POTA) is a 2005 Russian language film that follows 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:
The AK-74, fitted with an NSPU night-vision scope, is used by Russian infantryman Lyosha. It also appears amongst several Mujahideen, including local commander Akhmet (Marat Gudiev).
Soviet Paratroopers use the AKS-74, differentiated from the AK-74 by its folding stock (or lack of buttstock), in both training and combat in Afghanistan. The Mujahideen fighters also use them. Their heavier-than-expected use amongst the 9th Company in both training and combat is undoubtedly due to their light weight and the folding buttstock, ideal for paratroopers. Note that many of these look like full-length AK-74 because of the rubber bands around their folding stocks.
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 NSV Heavy Machine Gun is used as a mounted heavy machine gun by Soviet Paratroopers on Hill 3234. Additional NSVT's are seen mounted at the Commander's hatches of T-64 tanks (despite the T-64 being incorrect for the Soviet war in Afghanistan; these tanks are possibly standing in for the similar T-72).
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.
