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Air Force One

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The following guns can be seen in the movie Air Force One:

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Air Force One (1997)












Norinco Type 56-1

During the opening scene at the Presidential Palace in Kazakhstan, General Ivan Radek's (Jürgen Prochnow's) military guards are seen using Norinco Type 56-1 assault rifles which have been fitted with AKM-style muzzle breaks (customary for many of the Hollywood Chinese AKs, even though these were not factory-standard).

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Norinco Type 56-1 7.62x39mm
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A guard at General Radek's palace with his Chinese Type 56-1 assault rifle slung.
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One of Radek's guards fires at the U.S. special forces with a Type 56-1 AK.


Heckler & Koch MP5A3

When Secret Service Agent Gibbs (Xander Berkeley) opens up the weapons storage cabinet on Air Force One for Ivan Korshunov's (Gary Oldman's) Russian ultra-nationalists, the terrorists get their hands on a number of Heckler & Koch MP5A3 submachine guns. President James Marshall (Harrison Ford) also uses one of these weapons after taking it from one of the terrorists.

The MP5A3s in this movie are the same converted HK94A3 carbines from the Stembridge Gun Rentals inventory that have appeared in numerous other motion pictures (including Predator, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, etc.). Throughout the movie, close-ups of the guns reveal that they have the all-metal 0-1 trigger group of the HK94, as well as barrels that are missing the attachment lugs (for bayonets, flash hiders, and other accessories).

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Heckler & Koch MP5A3 9x19mm
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A Russian terrorist with an H&K MP5A3.
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One of the MP5A3s lying on the floor of Air Force One after being dropped by a terrorist that Marshall fights.
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Marshall in the cargo hold with a newly-acquired MP5A3.
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Marshall gets cornered by a terrorist while holding his MP5A3. Note that the barrel of the gun lacks the attachment lugs, indicating that the MP5 is actually an HK94 that has had its barrel chopped.
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Another close-up of Marshall's MP5A3 from the above scene. More telltale signs that the gun is a converted HK94 - the trigger group is the all-metal O-1 style, the receiver does not have the pushpin in front of the mag well, and there's no paddle magazine release.

Heckler & Koch MP5K

A single Heckler & Koch MP5K is among the weapons taken by the terrorists from the weapons cabinet. President Marshall also uses this weapon at one point in the film, and it is also picked up by his wife Grace (Wendy Crewson) while Marshall and Korshunov are fighting.

MP5Ks are also used by many of the U.S. special operators who capture General Radek early in the film, but their guns are fitted with threaded barrels and sound suppressors.

Which is the norm for U.S. Special forces. Simple concept. If you can see it or it sounds normal, it's a target. HK is also a fav of actual special forces.

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Heckler & Koch MP5K 9x19mm
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A U.S. special forces soldier with a suppressed H&K MP5K in Radek's palace.
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The terrorist with the MP5K taken from the weapons cabinet doing a sweep of the plane.
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The MP5K-toting terrorist threatening hostages.
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The terrorist on the phone to the cockpit while holding the MP5K.
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The terrorist with the MP5K threatens Marshall's family.
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Marshall with the MP5K after killing its user.

Colt M4A1

The terrorists also take several early-spec Colt M4A1 carbine assault rifles from the weapons cabinet, all of which have had their carry handles removed and replaced with C-More optical sights (they also have something attached to the barrel...laser sights?) Ivan Korshunov uses this weapon when the terrorists first start to take control of the plane, firing in vain at the cockpit door at one point. The special forces soldiers who are sent to retrieve President Marshall's escape mod also carry these weapons.

(I'm actually NOT 100% positive about this - for all I know, they might be civilian ARs visually modified to look like mil-spec M4s, with auto sears installed. If they are legit, then I think this means Air Force One might be the very first Hollywood film to feature the M4.)

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Colt M4A1 5.56x45mm
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An M4A1 in the weapons cabinet.
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Ivan Korshunov loads up an M4A1 as the terrorists prepare to take over the plane.
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Korshunov fires the M4 at the cockpit door.
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Korshunov on a conference call in the command center of Air Force One. The M4 is lying across the table in the foreground.


SIG-Sauer P226

The Secret Service Agents on Air Force One are armed mostly with SIG-Sauer P226 pistols. When the terrorists take over the plane, many of them also use these pistols; Ivan Korshunov carries a P226, which he is commonly seen using to threaten and/or execute hostages.

In real life, the Secret Service would have mostly been using the smaller SIG P228 and P229 at the time of the film's production.

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SIG-Sauer P226 9mm
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Korshunov threatens Marshall's daughter with a SIG P226.
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Korshunov prepares to execute Marshall's press secretary with the P226.
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Korshunov holds the P226 to Marshall's head.
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A close-up of a P226 in the hands of Gibbs during the film's climax.


Beretta 92FS

Agent Gibbs uses a Beretta 92FS fitted with a suppressor to execute the Secret Service Agents guarding the weapons cabinet. Some of the other Secret Service Agents on board Air Force One also use them. There is an interesting continuity error in the film, where one Agent (who is trying to evacuate President Marshall via the escape pod) switches from a SIG P226 to a Beretta 92F (see below).

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Beretta 92FS 9mm
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Gibbs with his suppressed Beretta.
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A Secret Service agent firing at the terrorists while trying to protect Marshall. He starts out using a SIG P226 (left), but somehow switches to a Beretta 92F (right) before he dies.

Unknown short-barreled AK variant

During the scene where General Radek is about to be released from prison, several of his troops land at the front gate in an Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunship and then line up to greet him. All of them are using an AK variation of unknown make and model. They look identical to the short-barreled AK used by Art Malik in True Lies, which is almost certainly not a coincidence because Harry Lu was the armorer on both movies; the only difference is that the guns have been fitted with side-folding stocks for Air Force One (which appear to have been borrowed from Hungarian AMD-65s).

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Radek's men stand at attention with their shorty AKs slung across their chests.


AKM

The guards at the Russian prison fire at General Radek with AKM rifles (they should have AK-74s).

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AKM 7.62x39mm
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The guards at the Russian prison unload their AKMs in Radek's direction.