For All Mankind - Season 2

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For All Mankind Error creating thumbnail: File missing Country Error creating thumbnail: File missing USA Channel Apple TV+ Genre Science Fiction Drama Broadcast 2021 No. of Episodes 10 (Planned) Main Cast Character Actor Ed Baldwin Joel Kinnaman Gordo Stevens Michael Dorman Karen Baldwin Shantel VanSanten Tracey Stevens Sarah Jones Molly Cobb Sonya Walger Danielle Poole Krys Marshall Ellen Wilson Jodi Balfour

Season 2 of For All Mankind takes place in 1983, approximately a decade after the finale of Season 1. The United States has maintained Jamestown, the first lunar colony, for ten years. Technological development bought about by NASA's research for lunar missions has resulted in an alternate vision of the 1980s with more advanced technology than what was available in the real-life early 80s being commonplace. However, the Soviet Union also possesses a lunar outpost, Zvezda, not too far from Jamestown and is aggressively expanding their operations on the Moon. Tensions on the Moon between the two superpowers begin to rise, mirroring the ongoing Cold War tensions on Earth.

The following weapons were used in Season 2 of the television series For All Mankind:

Smith & Wesson Model 19

When Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman) visits Molly Cobb (Sonya Walger) at her home in "Pathfinder" (S2E4), a holstered Smith & Wesson Model 19 is seen hanging next to her bathtub.

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Smith & Wesson Model 19 Combat Magnum - .357 Magnum

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"You always leave the door open while you're bathing alone?"
"Who says I'm alone?
Molly points out her Model 19 to Ed.

Colt M16A2

When the Soviet cosmonauts on the Moon begin encroaching on sites of valuable resources discovered by the Americans, the decision is made to bring firearms to the Moon to arm the Jamestown astronauts. They are provided modified M16A2 assault rifles, first seen in "The Weight" (S2E5).

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Colt M16A2 - 5.56x45mm

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An M16A2 is secured in a crate for transport to the Moon in "The Weight" (S2E5). This rifle appears to be fitted with a Colt 4x carry handle scope.

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A full view of the above seen, depicting US Marines slated to head to Jamestown as a security detail handling M16s. The rifles are described as being painted with a special heat-resistant white paint to protect them from thermal damage on the lunar surface. They are also fitted with collapsible M4-style stocks.

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A better view of the receiver and stock. The protrusion at the bottom of the stock is presumably a modification to allow the rifle to be shouldered easier when the user is in a bulky space suit.

Port Said Submachine Gun

In the beginning of "Every Little Thing" (S2E1), a montage of newspaper headlines depicts several alternate history events in For All Mankind's timeline. In one photograph, an assassin is seen with a Port Said submachine gun, an Egyptian licensed copy of the Carl Gustav M/45.

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Port Said SMG - an Egyptian licensed copy of Carl Gustav M/45 Submachine Gun - 9x19mm

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This is a real photograph of the assassination of Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt on October 6, 1981. It depicts an Islamic fundamentalist Egyptian soldier firing a Port Said SMG into the reviewing stand containing Sadat during a military parade in Cairo. In the For All Mankind universe, Sadat survives this attack, but in real life, he was killed along with ten others. While the photo used on the show is cropped, the full photo depicts other assassins armed with 7.62x39mm AK rifles.