Ace Combat: Assault HorizonAce Combat: Assault Horizon - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video GamesAce Combat: Assault Horizon
Ace Combat: Assault Horizon is the latest installment in the popular Ace Combat arcade flight simulator franchise, developed by Project ACES and published by Namco Bandai in October 2011 for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Like the previous game, Joint Assault, it is set in the real world rather than the earlier games' "Strangereal" world. A playable demo showing two levels is available on Xbox Live and the Playstation Network; the majority of screenshots below are currently captures from this demo.
The following weapons appear in the video game Ace Combat: Assault Horizon:
In various cutscenes, New Russian Federation (NRF) soldiers can be seen armed with CETME rifles, the CETME seeming to stand in for AK-74 series weapons normally used by the real-life Russian military.
In some cutscenes U.S. military personnel, including Cpt. Doug "Shooter One" Robinson can be seen armed with Beretta M9 pistols as their sidearms carried in thigh holsters.
In one cutscene, a U.S. Special Forces team, callsign "Hammer", can be seen armed with Heckler & Koch MP5A3's with Navy trigger groups and Surefire dedicated forend weaponlights.
In one cutscene, Colonel Andrei "Akula" Markov can be seen using a Makarov PM to kill General Ivan Stagleishov when Stagleishov attempts to negotiate a surrender to the allied forces.
Soldiers in the helicopter demo mission are armed with very low-detail smallarms, making it impossible to determine make or model; all that can really be said is the insurgent weapon looks vaguely AK-ish and the American weapon vaguely M4-ish.
Enemy "SAM" soldiers seem to be armed with very low-detail FIM-92A Stinger launchers. The AH-64 Apache can also equip wingtip-mounted Stingers (ATAS or ATAL) as an air-to-air weapon.
File:-0976t.jpgFIM-92A Stinger - 70mmError creating thumbnail: File missingThe Apache's "AAM" weapon is the Stinger; air-launched Stingers go by the name ATAS or ATAL.Error creating thumbnail: File missingIf carried, these are shown in two-tube box launchers on the Apache's wingtips.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAn insurgent takes aim with a very blocky Stinger launcher; note, however, the block on the left representing the Stinger's distinctive IFF antenna, the one on the right being the sight.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAnother insurgent takes aim with a Stinger. Note the launcher seems designed to produce a "man with Stinger" shadow rather than be an accurate model; normal engagement range in the game is much further away, so a convincing shadow is all that is really needed.
Type 69 RPG
As with the Stinger, the Type 69 RPG used by insurgents seems to be designed more to cast an RPG-like shadow than to be accurate in detail, but the weapon is clearly held with one hand rested above the tube rather than on a second handgrip, meaning it is not an RPG-7. These weapons still sound a lock-on tone when fired, but appear to be unguided, simply travelling in a straight line.
The General Dynamics GAU-17/A appears in the game door-mounted on MH-60L Blackhawk helicopters. It should be noted that this is the first game in the Ace Combat franchise to feature helicopters as playable aircraft. The player controls a Blackhawk's door gun during the opening credits.
The DShK heavy machine gun can be seen in the demo mounted on technical trucks and a T-55 tank.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingDShK heavy machine gun mounted on tripod - 12.7x108mmError creating thumbnail: File missingDShKM heavy machine gun in standard vehicle mounting on a Romanian TR-85 main battle tank - 12.7x108mmError creating thumbnail: File missingShooter 1 sweeps over a technical armed with a DShK heavy machine gun.Error creating thumbnail: File missingBy rushing to the area where the demo mission ends after shooting down the last Hind-D, it is possible to find an enemy convoy which cannot yet move or fire. This allows all the detail of the DShK to be seen easily without the whole dying thing.Error creating thumbnail: File missingDuring the demo, Shooter 1 also has to engage this T-55, which can fire both its main gun and the commander's DShK heavy machine gun at the Apache.
KPVT & PKT Machine Guns
In the helicopter demo mission, the player character's helicopter is attacked by a number of BRDM-2 armoured scout cars (called "APCs" in-game), armed with turrets mounting a KPVT heavy machine gun and a coaxial PKT machine gun.
The M61 Vulcan appears in the game as a secondary weapon on several playable fighters, including the F-14D Super Tomcat, F-4E Phantom II, F-16C Fighting Falcon, Mitsubishi F-2A, F/A-18E & F Super Hornet, F-15C Eagle, F-15E Strike Eagle, F-15S/MTD Eagle, YF-23 Black Widow II, and F-22A Raptor.
The Shipunov 2A42 appears in the game as the secondary armament of the Ka-50 Hokum attack helicopter. Unlike the 2A42 on the real-life Hokum, the one in the game has a far wider range of movement, almost equal to that of the guns on the other attack helicopters in the game.
The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1 appears in the game as the secondary weapon on several aircraft, including the MiG-29A Fulcrum, Su-27 Flanker, Su-34 Fullback, Su-33 Flanker-D, Su-35S Flanker-E, Su-47 Berkut, and the Sukhoi PAK-FA prototype.
Mi-24VP Hind-E helicopters in the game are seen armed a chin-mounted Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 twin-barrel gun as their secondary weapon. It is also the secondary armament of MiG-21bis Fishbed fighters.
The Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 appears in the game as defensive armament on computer-controlled Tu-95 Bear bombers the player is tasked with engaging in some missions.
In one trailer, a soldier is seen standing in front of a row of 2S6M "Tunguska" self-propelled AA systems, armed with missiles and twin 2A38M autocannons.
The AC-130 shown in-game, while called an AC-130U, is actually based on one of the suggested upgrade packages for the AC-130, mounting a breech-loading M120 mortar as the heaviest weapon rather than the M102 105mm howitzer mounted on current models.
