Chtoby vyzhit
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Country
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Directed by
Vsevolod Plotkin
Release Date
1992
Language
Russian
Studio
Rolan Bykov Foundation
To Survive (also known as Red Mob ; Russian title: Чтобы выжить, Chtoby vyzhit ) is a 1992 Russian thriller. Emissary of the former "party mafia", nicknamed "Jaffar" prepares and implements a series of provocations and terrorist acts on the outskirts of the country to create the preconditions for a coup. During a attack on one of the military bases, was wounded a his conductor.
Bandits urgently need to smuggle across the Afghan border caravan with drugs. As a conductor Jaffar tries to use the former army officer - Oleg, wherefore bandits taking hostage his son. Oleg and his army friend, Nikolai, using all his experience of the war in the mountains, enters into an unequal deadly struggle against a gangs...
The following weapons were used in the film To Survive (Chtoby vyzhit) :
Handguns FN Barracuda Several Jaffar's henchmen used the FN Barracuda Revolvers . Nikolai (Sergey Veksler ) captured FN Barracuda from gangster in the one scene (which is too blurry to take a good shot).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing FN Barracuda Revolver. It was manufactured in 9x19mm, .357 Magnum and .38 Sp calibers. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Henchman holds a revolver, before a Nikolai captured him from an ambush. Stechkin APS Oleg (Vladimir Menshov ) uses Stechkin APS as his sidearm.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Stechkin APS - 9x18mm Makarov Error creating thumbnail: File missing Oleg holds Stechkin APS Makarov PM Several character uses a Makarov PM .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Russian Makarov PM - 9x18mm Makarov Error creating thumbnail: File missing A policeman carries a pistol, before being shot. Error creating thumbnail: File missing An officer with a PM, during an shootout with terrorists. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jaffar's henchmen holds Makarov PM Makarov PB At the beginning of the film, in an attack on a police station, one of the gangsters carries Makarov PB .
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Makarov PB with integral suppressor - 9x18mm Makarov Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gangster fires Makarov PB. M1911A1 One of the Jaffar's henchmen used M1911A1 during shootout on the airport.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing World War II Colt M1911A1 - .45 ACP Error creating thumbnail: File missing Submachine Guns Heckler & Koch MP5K Jaffar (Aleksandr Rozenbaum ), throughout the film carries MP5K with 15-round magazine.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Heckler & Koch MP5K - version with SEF Plastic Trigger Pack - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Czech Sa.26 One of the main weapons was used by the mercenaries, is a Sa.26 submachine guns.
File:Samopal vzor 26.jpg Czech Sa.26 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gangster, disguised as a policeman fires supressed Sa.26. The suppressor is a real PBS-4. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Gangster holds Sa.26 Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jafar's man with Sa.26 Uzi Several Jaffar's mercenaries carries the Uzi submachine guns. Oleg (Vladimir Menshov ) also uses Uzi in the nightly shootout.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing IMI Uzi with buttstock collapsed - 9x19mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Oleg (right) fires Uzi. Shotguns Mossberg 500 Slugster Nikolai (Sergey Veksler ) used Mossberg 500 shotgun with rifle sights in the beginning of the movie. Being that it is a 1992 year, chances are that it's a fully rifled barrel, made for one of the many "Combo" shotguns (fully rifled shotgun barrels were legal in Russia until the 1990s; "Combo" shotguns with they can still be found on the secondary market within the country, but any import of them has since been banned).
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Mossberg 500 Combo Shotgun with rifled and smoothbore barrels - 12 gauge. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Assault Rifles AKS-47 At least four AKS-47 rifles they are visible among the weapons that the gang steals from the police station. AKS-47s later used by many Jaffar's henchmen.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Type III AKS-47 with stock folded - 7.62x39mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Jaffar's mercenaries fires during the attack on the military base. Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing AKS-74U Plenty AKS-74U rifles seen at the beginning of the movie in the armory in a police station.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing AKS-74U (also referred to as the "AKSU" or 'Krinkov') - 5.45x39mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing AKS-74U in armory. AKS-74 The AKS-74 rifles, some with attached bayonets, are visible in the hands of soldiers, when terrorists attack a military base.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing AKS-74 with synthetic furniture - 5.45x39mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Good view of the AKS-74, lying on the ground. Pay attention to the new synthetic furniture, analogous to the AK-74M . This is obvious, the first appearance of these updated variant in the movies. AKS-74 with GP-25 grenade launcher Jaffar (Aleksandr Rozenbaum ) uses in the end of the movie AKS-74 with GP-25 grenade launcher.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Screen used XM148 Launcher (40mm) mounted on M16A1 - 5.56x45mm. This is verified screen used from the film Red Mob/Chtoby vyzhit Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Heckler & Koch G3A4 Nikolai finds Heckler & Koch G3A4 rifle in the weapon cargo of the Jaffar's caravan, and used this in the nightly shootout with gangs, when his RPK is empty.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Heckler & Koch G3A4 - 7.62x51mm NATO Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nikolai used H&K G3A4 in the nightly shootout. SA Vz.58 Several mercenaries carries the SA vz.58 rifles. In one moment during a firefight on the terrorists' base, Nikolai raises the rifle from the body of one mercenary and uses it.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Czech SA vz. 58P (Pěchotní aka "Infantry") with fixed stock - 7.62x39mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Error creating thumbnail: File missing Nikolai fires his rifle. Note the "Jungle-style" magazines. Machine Guns RPK Nikolai uses in the night shootout with Jaffar's bandits RPK LMG.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing RPK Light Machine Gun with 40 round magazine - 7.62x39mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing PKM The PKM machine gun is seen among the gang's weapons, and later is used by them during the night shootout.
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing RPG-7 with PG-7VM rocket and PGO-7 scope - 40mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing RPG-18 Nikolai uses the RPG-18 , to destroy bandits.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing RPG-18 - 64mm Error creating thumbnail: File missing Grenades F-1 Oleg and Nikolai in the movie uses a F-1 grenades. Upon closer inspection, it seems to be a repainted URG training version.
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