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Light weapons enthusiast author: Li Neng
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Released during the May 1 holiday season in 2015, Equator is a police action blockbuster co-directed by directors Leung Lok-min and Lu Jianqing after "Cold War", which depicts an internationally wanted criminal nicknamed "Equator" stealing nuclear materials and hand-held nuclear weapons from North and South Korea and intending to sell them to a third party in Hong Kong. Around this serious incident, Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, China, and South Korea, the military and police elites joined forces to carry out the ultimate showdown with the "equator".
(Handsome poster)
Putting aside the plot of the sky (nao) ma (dong) line (da) and the kai, the explosive gun battle action scenes and the use of various foreign firearms in the film are enough to grab the attention of the majority of light weapons enthusiasts, and as the hong Kong police anti-terrorism special task force (ctru) on the big screen for the first time, it also makes this film have another point of view.
Let's take a look at the dazzling weapons and equipment in the film
At the beginning of the film, Zhang Zhen's "Equator" right-hand man "Shinsang" led a team to attack the North Korean nuclear facilities, and after obtaining nuclear materials, he shot and killed the captured staff, and the guns used by the shooting staff were the sg551 and sg552 automatic rifles produced by the famous Swiss sig company, which appeared many times in the film, which shows that the director loves them.
In the late 1970s, the Swiss Army intended to develop a new small-caliber rifle to replace the original stgw57 (sg510) automatic rifle. Initial tests were made between the 5.6×48 Eiger and 6.5×48 GP80 ammunition, with the prototype guns being the SIG 541 based on the SG540 and the SGC42 at the state-run Bern Arsenal. But in the end, the Swiss army chose the NATO 5.56× 45mm caliber GP90 bomb and selected the SIG program, but asked for further improvements to the SG541.
In 1983, the Swiss Army officially adopted an improved version of the SG541 and finalized it as the Type 90 assault rifle (sturmgewehr-90), or stgw.90 for short, with the SIG internal designation sg550. However, for financial reasons, the stgw.90 did not start production until 1986. The Stgw.90 ordered by the Swiss Army was delivered in all deliveries in the mid-1990s, producing around 600,000 sticks in total. Sigarms, on the other hand, sold a number of stgw.90 models, including the long-barreled Sig SG550, the Carbine Sig SG551, sig551-swat, the sniper Sig SG550sniper, the short-barreled "Commando" Sig SG552 and many other models, and the semi-automatic civilian versions also had the SG550-sp and SG551-sp.
There is also a model called the SG553, which was actually renamed in 2009 for the SG552, which originally had Picatinny rails integrated into the top of the receiver. SG550 series is well-made, high precision, excellent reliability, is the Swiss precision industry level in the continuation of light weapons, but also because of this, so that the series of firearms unit price is higher, in addition to other firearms in the same period, sg550 series of self-weight is generally larger, which is also a significant drawback.
(From top to bottom, sg550, sg551lb, sg551, sg553)
(Terrorists using sg551/sg552 rifles)
(Agent of south Korea's National Intelligence Using the SG552 Rifle)
(SG551p rifle with optical sight and cheek plate)
Later in the film, two "messengers" played by Zhang Zhen and Wen Yongshan carry stolen hand-held nuclear weapons code-named "dc-8" to trade arms dealers in an indoor parking lot in Hong Kong, during which they are raided by the Hong Kong police's counter-terrorism task force (ctru), and the two sides engage in a large-scale gun battle, which is also the most intense firefight in the film. As the first film work to have ctru appear, the film truly shows the ctru's standard personal equipment and weapons, including hk mp5a3 submachine gun, glock17 pistol, helmet, bulletproof shield, bulletproof tactical vest, etc., all of which are restored according to the standard image of ctru in reality.
However, for the tactical arrangement of the ctru raid on the parking lot in the film, the author feels that it is debatable. When Ctru entered from the entrance of the parking lot, it did not use a protective anti-terrorism assault vehicle, but drove an ordinary civilian car as a cover, and did not cut off the monitoring system of the parking lot so that it was exposed at the beginning of the operation, so that the other party obtained sufficient reaction time and increased the difficulty of the assault, this low-level mistake can only be said to be to consider the development needs of the movie plot, otherwise it should not appear.
(real-life ctru)
(Ctru in the movie)
(In the movie, the ctru team members who burst in from the entrance of the parking lot, the front cover vehicle uses ordinary civilian vehicles, not anti-terrorism special vehicles)
(Such an obvious fixed surveillance camera is not cut off, if in reality, this is a low-level mistake that can never happen)
Most of the weapons of arms dealers are AK series, I believe everyone is already very familiar with it, and I will not repeat it here. Only the bandit who first exchanged fire with the ctru after discovering its breakthrough through the entrance used a "very powerful" shotgun in his hand, saying that it was extremely powerful because of its huge muzzle flame and a shot that flew the front cover of the car that the ctru had used as a cover for the squad, and even made an exaggerated explosion reaction, which should be the film's processing in pursuit of visual effects. Since the shotgun is not given a clear shot in the film, it is not easy to determine its specific model, and from the blurred screenshots of the film, it is most likely an Italian Benelli m3t super 90 shotgun.
The gun is a folding stock type of the Benelli M3 Super 90 shotgun, and the tubular frame stock can be rolled up to shorten the full length of the firearm.
Fires a No. 12 shotgun with a capacity of 7 rounds, with a choice of semi-automatic or pump-fired modes, which are always in pump-fire mode in the film. However, in the later screen, the stock of the gun has become a telescopic tactical stock, which is actually a piercing shot caused by the mistake of the prop group, if you are interested, you may wish to pay attention to it when watching the film.
(The aks in the hands of arms dealers are all lower folding bracket models, with aks47 and akms)
(Exaggerated muzzle flame and shotgun with its own explosive effect)
(Benelli m3t super 90 shotgun)
(Tubular butt becomes a piercing shot of a telescopic stock)
After the attack was blocked, Yu Wenle's anti-terrorism task force led the team to support, and successfully cleared the obstacles and broke into the parking lot. Yu Wenle's character uses the hk company-produced mp5a3 submachine gun that comes standard in ctru, with the comp m2 red dot sight produced by aimpoint and the lower handguard designed for the mp5 series with integrated tactical flashlights.
In this bridge section, there is a detail worth noting, Yu Wenle played by the ctru team members from the left side of the parking lot entrance to cover the entry of other teammates, first with the left hand as the main hand holding the gun, and when they entered, they did a change of hand gun action, the main hand of the gun was changed to the right hand, this shot description is quite elaborate, very in line with the real situation of the cqb tactical action.
(Corner change handheld gun action is quite professional)
Just when the arms dealer was hit by the ctru, the two "messengers" played by Zhang Zhen and Wen Yongshan started to move, Zhang Zhen knocked down two ctru team members with one shot, especially the first shot, penetrated six pieces of car glass and one side of the car body plus a trunk cover, and then broke through the torso of a ctru team member wearing a bulletproof vest, such an exaggerated penetrating performance made the author once doubt whether the director had collected the manufacturer's advertising fees.
The character played by Zhang Zhen uses the CZ805 BREN A2 assault rifle produced by the Czech CZ Company, which is a short-barreled model of the CZ805 BREN A1 rifle, with a barrel length of 277 mm, a full gun length of 782 mm (bracket) / 587 mm (bracket), an empty weight of 3.48kg, firing 5.56 NATO-style bullets, and an effective range of 400 meters.
The CZ805 BREN A series is innovative in design, highly modular, ergonomic, the lower receiver and magazine are made of polymer materials, which greatly reduces its own weight, the gun was recognized by the Czech military in 2010 and gradually began to be reloaded to replace the old VZ58 rifle. The female "messenger" played by Wen Yongshan holds a small submachine gun, handsomely pulls open the folded butt to join the battle, this butt like a scorpion tail poison hook-like firearm is the scorpion evo 3 a1 submachine gun with the cz805 bren a series division, this gun prototype debuted in public in 2009.
Officially launched in 2012 after improvements, the full gun is 670 mm long, weighs 3.26 kg, fires 9x19 mm Balabarum pistol cartridges, feeds with a 20/30 round magazine, and has an effective range of 250 meters. The scorpion 's name is a tribute to its predecessor, the VZ61 Scorpion submachine gun, hoping that it will inherit the VZ61's brilliant achievements in the field of submachine guns.
(CZ805 BREN A2 assault rifle)
(Zhang Zhen's CZ805 BREN A2 assault rifle, equipped with aimpoint comp m3 red dot mirror and front grip)
(Scorpion Evo 3 A1 submachine gun)
(The scorpion evo 3a1 submachine gun used by Mun Wing Shan is equipped with a aimpoint micro t1 sight)
In the film, pistols appear less often, only the glock17 pistol used by the anti-terrorist special service team members and the glock18 submachine gun used by the "messenger" played by Zhang Zhen.
(The glock17 pistol used by the ctru team member played by Yu Wenle)
(glock18 submachine gun with extended magazine)
In the entire parking lot battle section, the police as a law enforcement agency, even in the face of outlaws with strong firepower, also try to restrain their own firepower, will warn before shooting, when it is necessary to use deadly weapons, mostly single shots are the mainstay, rarely use continuous fire, to avoid excessive killing.
The bandits have no scruples, the use of firearms is all in burst mode, and even throwing explosives such as grenades, and the different combat styles of the police and bandits are more obvious. Judging from the plot setting at the end of the film, "Equator" will also have a sequel to shoot, I don't know what special weapons and equipment will appear in the sequel, let's wait and see.
(Grenades thrown by bandits)
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