Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder

The following firearms were used in the movie Blue Thunder:

M61A1 20mm Vulcan Cannon

Chin-mounted on the Blue Thunder chopper.

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Its six barrels are capable of firing 4000 rounds a minute.

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Smith & Wesson Model 27

Used by an LAPD Officer.

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Smith & Wesson Model 10 .38 Snubnose

Used by Colonel Cochrane(Malcolm McDowell).

Officer Frank Murphy (Roy Scheider) points his .38 while he sits in Blue Thunder.

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"You talkin' to me?"

M230 Chain Gun

The Hughes M230 30mm Chain Gun is typically mounted on the AH-64 Apache, but two are mounted on Col. Cochrane's Hughes 500 helicopter.

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M60 Machine Gun

SWAT officers try to knock down Blue Thunder with their m60 machine guns.

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Trivia Section

• The "Blue Thunder" chopper in reality is a French Aerospatiale Gazelle with the cockpit section modded. This cockpit section was also used as part of a Mil-24 Hind in the movie Firefox.

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The Blue Thunder cockpit as seen in Firefox.