Weapons used in the James Bond movies.
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Discuss your favourite weapons used in the films.
In Quantum Of Solace Bond uses a SIG P226.
M's bodyguard uses a SIG P226, which he then kills two of M's men with and attempts to kill her.
Later Bond steals a SIG and places it behind his back. He uses it during the firefight at Greene Hotel and with it kills many of General Medrano's and Greene's men, including Carlos and Greene's Driver. When he gets attacked with the axe by Greene, he loses the gun.
Type: Pistol Weight: 964 g (34 oz) (with magazine)
Length: 196 mm (7.7 inch)
Barrel Length: 112 mm (4.4 inch)
Capacity: 10, 15, 17, 18, or 20
Fire Modes: Semi-Auto
It is not the exact same model I use, I got various SIG guns.
My favourite though is the one that accompanies me since many years and is one of the most reliable assault rifles ever created. Swiss manufacturer SIG is equipping the army with its guns.
I can take the SIG550 home with me as the Swiss Army is a milita.
The SIG 550.
Nothing feels safer than sleeping with one under the pillow :P or two....or three....
Shooting range is one of my favourite places in the world
Generally I find the use of assault rifles and handguns in Quantum Of Solace to be amongst the best gun action in all of the Bond films.
In Quantum Of Solace Bond uses a SIG P226.
M's bodyguard uses a SIG P226, which he then kills two of M's men with and attempts to kill her.
Later Bond steals a SIG and places it behind his back. He uses it during the firefight at Greene Hotel and with it kills many of General Medrano's and Greene's men, including Carlos and Greene's Driver. When he gets attacked with the axe by Greene, he loses the gun.
Type: Pistol Weight: 964 g (34 oz) (with magazine)
Length: 196 mm (7.7 inch)
Barrel Length: 112 mm (4.4 inch)
Capacity: 10, 15, 17, 18, or 20
Fire Modes: Semi-Auto
It is not the exact same model I use, I got various SIG guns.
My favourite though is the one that accompanies me since many years and is one of the most reliable assault rifles ever created. Swiss manufacturer SIG is equipping the army with its guns.
I can take the SIG550 home with me as the Swiss Army is a milita.
The SIG 550.
Nothing feels safer than sleeping with one under the pillow :P or two....or three....
Shooting range is one of my favourite places in the world
Generally I find the use of assault rifles and handguns in Quantum Of Solace to be amongst the best gun action in all of the Bond films.
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EDIT: I saw the SPECTRE page on iMFDB and I was wrong, it was a P226R. That's embarrassing but that may have been the intention in the film.
It's the P226R, correct. As shown in these pics.
The use of weapons in SPECTRE is fantastic. I like Daniel Craig a lot for how he handles the various weapons very well.
While I like handguns I have always preferred assault rifles.
The assault rifle he uses in SPECTRE is this one:
Bond takes a CSA Sa vz. 58 Compact off a guard at the secret SPECTRE desert base. One is also seen at the safehouse in Tangiers.
As for reality of shoot outs in films, it can be debated what „looks real“ and what not.
Shooting at moving targets is definitely much more difficult than it is often depicted in films.
And obviously the main protagonist in a shoot out will not get killed or badly injured. Shot in the arm, leg or shoulder at most. Because it’s a film. Self-explanatory really.
The SPECTRE escape scene from Oberhauser’s desert lair:
Summary:
The whole shoot out happens within 40 seconds. It's 14 guards of which the first is knocked unconscious by the opening door. Two of the five guards on the side of the building are shot by Bond. Three seem to remain but they are obviously at least rendered unconscious by the explosion that follows.
There are at first two guards and then another three guards on the other side in front of the stairs, all five get shot by Bond.
The two on the stairs get shot and the one on top on the platform gets shot as well.
Bond escapes the torture room. After he opens the door in the hallway to flee outside he bumps the door into a guard that loses the rifle. Bond picks it up and immediately shoots at two guards that are standing nearby close to the gate that leads to the stairs to the helicopter platform. Both can be easily killed by Bond which seems realistic.
Bond takes Swann by her hand and moves away from the building. You can see three guards behind them, on the left side of the building, they are moving towards them, if not fast. They obviously only see Bond and Swann now and begin to react. They are not very close, but not very far too.
Bond looks back, sees them and begins to shoot the rifle, with one hand.
One guard goes down. The other two stand. Seems ok to me.
And now you see two other guards on the right side of the building moving.
Bond tells Swann to hide and moves himself into a save corner at another part of the building construction, where he can hide behind a wall.
That takes him maybe three seconds in all. The remaining guards clearly take shots but the bullets seem to hit the ground behind Bond. Back to the shooting range fellas for some more training I'd say.
The two guards on the right take shots and hit the wall, Bond is then hiding behind. At least those two guards seem to be able to aim properly if a tad late.
The two guards keep shooting (which I would do too). Bond comes out from the hiding takes a clear shot to one of those guards and hits. He fires again, twice, which doesn't seem to hit anyone and goes back into hiding. That takes three seconds tops.
Again you can ask what are the two guards on the left side of the building (hallway) doing? Shoot at clay pigeons?
Bond takes a long look (1 1/2 second) at Swann, eye contact. I like that moment very much, because Bond seems to know it could end badly for them. Bond seems very focussed in all of this by the way. Bravo, especially after being drilled into the head
Comes out from hiding, aims and shoots at the pressure pump (or whatever it is) which then explodes (huge fireball). You can see the remaining two guards on the left side of the building again and they still seem to stand at the approximately same spot as they did at the beginning. Not only bad shots, but lazy too, sheesh.
After the big explosion another guard appears, this time from the opposite side of the building (stairs to the helicopter platform). He is quite close.
He starts to shoot at Bond and Swann but hits the wall above their heads. As he is running and probably still shocked by the explosion it's ok-ish.
It takes Bond a split second to hit him, one handed as he holds Swann with his other hand. Ok, that guard really presents himself to be shot at.
At the same time another two appear on a three wheeler and another appears on the stairs coming down. Bond immediately starts shooting. Both on the vehicle go down.
Now you see it's two other guards coming down the stairs. They are not very close, so rather difficult to shoot.
Climbing down stairs and shooting at moving targets is certainly a challenge for those two guards.
Bond is moving, reloading and shooting again. Another guard can be seen at the top on the helicopter platform. Very far away.
Bond takes one shot, then another. Both are hits, and the guards on the stairs are down, only after they themselves have at least taken one shot each at Bond but missed, obviously.
The guard on top, on the platform seems to aim, takes his time (which is needed at that distance) and I think he shoots once, but Bond is a truly gifted sharpshooter. One shot, in the head and that guard waves goodbye.
As I have never been tortured like Bond and then had to flee from 13 moving guards that take shots at me from behind and from the front, with a hot babe at my side, I wouldn't dare judging Bond for his performance.
But even so, he is doing great here and it's expected, he is a 00 agent after all
Truly one of the amazing moments in the franchise.
Two of my favourite sequences in the Bond:
THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS
Timothy Dalton uses a Walther WA 2000 sniper rifle given to him by Saunders to fire at the KGB sniper that turns out to be cellist Kara.
One of the most beautiful weapons, an absolute favourite of mine.
Type: Sniper Rifle / Caliber: .300 Winchester Magnum, .308 Winchester, 7.5x55mm Swiss
Weight: 6.95 kg, 15.9 lbs / Length: 90,5 cm, 35.62 in / Barrel length: 65 cm, 25.59 in
Capacity: 6-round detachable box / Fire Modes: Semi-Auto
Bond inspects the WA 2000
Bond on his way to the window
Close up, Bond's finger on the trigger
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
Sean Connery uses an Armalite AR-7 survival rifle with a custom suppressor and infra-red scope, issued to him by Q. Together with Kerim Bey, Bond wants to assassinate Krilencu. Eventually Kerim Bey does the shooting.
Q reports the rifle to be .25 caliber, which is incorrect. It actually fires a .22 Long Rifle cartridge.
The Armalite AR-7 is a semiautomatic .22 LR takedown rifle originally developed from the AR-5 as a lightweight survival rifle.
Bond assembling the rifle
This is my sniper rifle since 2005:
8,6 mm SSGw 04 (TRG 42)
Absolutely correct, it's Finnish arms manufacturer SAKO.
It's only used by Swiss Army Special Forces.
During the cold war our Home Guard soldiers kept their guns at home. My neighbour had a HK AG3 (Norwegian made G3). After the fall of the Soviet Union the guns are kept in military bases. It was feared the guns might get stolen from Home Guard soldiers by criminals or even be used by mentale unstable HG soldiers against their families etc.
Is this a concern in Switzerland too?
As a militia active and on reserve soldiers/officers have their army weapon(s) at home when not serving or not staying at a base.
After retiring we can keep the assault rifle for instance.
Last year the bloody EU changed the gun law and because we are unfortunately a member of the Schengen club, this meant we can't take the army weapons home anymore.
But of course our government dealt with that and we can still keep the weapons. It's possible to voluntarily give it up to the army but it's hardly done.
As for concerns. The only thing of note is that several suicides every year are done with the army assault weapon we have at home.
As for gun violence. Practically non-existence in Switzerland, except for some incidents every year with immigrants that have family feuds or something like that.
I started a thread about very unusual weapons that could be used in future Bond movies. You should check it out.
Just one example out of many why I am more than anything very, very, very happy we are not in the EU.
The army is a part of our tradition, culture and daily life. There were many army reforms during the last several decades. But the Swiss want the army as a militia for the future as well, they made that clear at the voting box several times.
Now it is discussed to make the army mandatory for women even! Or at least make the first day (recruitment day) mandatory, so more women will voluntarily serve. Every year the number rises of the female army force.
Could you give me the name of the thread or a link? Appreciated, thanks.
I never had you for the revenge type.
Anyway, enjoy. -{
(I only spent about 10 minutes pulling the whole thing together.)
In Norway military service for girls is already (in theory) mandatory. The army is so small now, only well motived people are needed. Female conscription works well. Girls and boys live in the same room, something that actually makes sexual harassment etc. less likely.
Our military used more and more professional soldiers since the jobs and the equipment gets ever mord complicated. They barely have the time to train the conscripts before they return to civilians life. It's not WWII anymore when most soldiers could be trained in a month of two. I believe the Swiss Army hasn't taken part in international operations (at least in a very small degree?). Our experience from conflict zones like Afghanistan is that a very high lever of training is needed.
....you dirty punker you...
that's great! you're an artist!
But the great majority of recruits receive a normal standard of training that certainly wouldn't equip them to go to a war. But that's not the purpose of a militia anyway to go abroad to Afghanistan or elsewhere.
There was/is talk of a professional army in Switzerland but it'll never happen as the Swiss would never allow it, we are a direct democracy, so the people have the last say.
Our army is modernising itself at the moment and more and more companies get more professionalised for obvious reasons. Also it's not so easy to get into such companies. You have to have the right qualifications. That's something that has changed dramatically.
Grenadier's (my basic training) are said to be a mixture of US marines and US Army Rangers. Our "NATO-Bahn" the NATO-way is arguably the hardest of it's kind in the world (they say...), it's an obstacle course.
We work together with other countries in co-operation trainings in Switzerland or in their country. The US army has visited us with soldiers and I had the time of my life I must say.
What do you mean by NATO-way? The prosess of joining NATO, or an obstacles cource... what?
We had a lot of training and exercises with US, UK and other nations' soldiers during the cold war and the 1990's, but it turned out that nothing is like actual war. Our military learned a lot in Afghanistan and other conflict areas and a lot of changes were needed. Special forces units were more operational than other units, peacetime training is very different from real war.
I don't think a completely professional military isn't a good solution for small nations. Sweden tried after the cold war, but now they are going back to a national service model. It was simply too hard to recruit enough soldiers for a completely professional military. Conscription also Connecticut the population with the armed forces. Without it the military and civilian life become paralell society er with lille contact with each other.
The best system IMO is a mixture of conscripts and professionals.
TOMORROW NEVER DIES is my favourite Bond film anyway when it comes to assault rifles and small arms.
It's a modified Sterling Armalite.
Here's Brosnan with the AR-180, heavily modified.
The NATO-way is an obstacle course.
As for Marines, the comparison is made merely for the basic training Grenadiers receive, there are many similarities.
The 17th Company though is only based on Grenadier's training and then they are specialised into para-scouts, they have nothing to do with the marines of course.
Sorry for the confusion
How about THE WORLD is
NOT ENOUGH?
It had some great weapons.
From Elektra's Colt Mk IV Series 70 that he uses to shoot Valentine...
Bad trigger discipline, Elektra.
Bond punished her for it...but (realistically) the 1911 had no bullets left after wasting so many at henchmen and breaking free M.
By the same logic, there would be no pain-free villain but I digress.
...to a favourite assault rifle of mine. The very first appearance of the H&K G36.
She can shoot me up any day of the week.
Let's flash forward to a few years late to Quantum
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Bond finds a SIG P210, which just so happens to be the version commemorating the 50 years of P49 in the Swiss army (1949-1999).
The weapon's look is a favourite of mine and something about wood and metal looks good. That's not to say that I don't like polymer guns.
Surely you don't mean it like that! It is after all in use by the Finnish Defense Forces as TKIV2000, or "Precision Rifle 2000".... :v
...and plenty of other international users as well.....
-Mr Arlington Beech
ha ha.... :P yeah...you could be right, what I meant it is only used in Swiss Army Special Forces and not in other detachments or companies in the Swiss Army :007)
Also, in Tomorrow Never Dies during the printing press escape Bond, while being shot at by a guard, falls to the platform below.
He manages to shoot his PPK once in the air. Bad trigger discipline, or was it just an error?
Nice. But I thought you guys were just armed with Swiss Army knives and Toblerone
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Dumb pistol. Utterly pointless.