![]() ![]() Action Politician: After the titular aircraft gets taken over by terrorists, President Marshall, a combat veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, forgoes a chance to escape in order to personally fight back.It appears that Air Force One is the very first Hollywood film to feature the flattop M4 carbine that is so familiar to American audiences today. Macy) can briefly be seen wielding Korshunov's M4 when President Marshall is running back to the cockpit to call off Radek's release. Later in the film, Major Caldwell ( William H. ![]() This weapon is also fired by Andrei Kolchak ( Elya Baskin). Ivan Korshunov uses this weapon when the terrorists first start to take control of the plane, firing in vain at the cockpit door at one point. The weapons also feature a laser sight attached to the barrel, which appears to be the same type found on the Mossberg 590 shotgun used in Broken Arrow. The terrorists also take several M4A1 Carbines from the weapons cabinet, all of which have had their carry handles removed and replaced with C-More C-TAC red dot sights (essentially a C-More competition red dot sight fitted into a chopped M4 carry handle, with A2 rear sight left intact). Security officers at Sheremetyevo Airport with Type 56 rifles slung over their backs. IMFDB's exclusive picture of a "mock MP5" (seen below) is believed to be one of the actual screen-used weapons from Air Force One (though we haven't been able to confirm, since there's no record of the exact serial numbers for all of the weapons that Stembridge sent out to the production). Throughout the movie, close-ups of the guns reveal that they have the all-metal 0-1 trigger group of the HK94 (with a "2" position for full-auto engraved), as well as barrels that are missing the attachment lugs (for bayonets, flash hiders, and other accessories). The MP5A3s used in this movie are the same partially-converted HK94A3 carbines from the Stembridge Gun Rentals inventory that have appeared in numerous other motion pictures (including Predator, Lethal Weapon, Die Hard, etc.). President James Marshall ( Harrison Ford) also uses one of these weapons after taking it from one of the terrorists, and both Agent Gibbs and Major Caldwell ( William H. When Secret Service Agent Gibbs ( Xander Berkeley) opens up the weapons storage cabinet on Air Force One for Ivan Korshunov's ( Gary Oldman's) Russian Ultranationalists, the terrorists get their hands on a number of Heckler & Koch MP5A3 submachine guns. Submachine Guns Heckler & Koch HK94A3 (mocked-up as MP5A3) USSS Agent Gibbs shares the name of the NCIS Special Agent Gibbs (portrayed by Mark Harmon) on the TV series NCIS and the series premiere "Yankee White" (S1E01) has the agent investigating a possible terrorist sleeper aboard Air Force One, and a few references to this film are made during the episode. There is an interesting continuity error in the film, where Agent Walters ( Glenn Morshower) (who is trying to evacuate President Marshall via the escape pod) switches from a SIG P226 to a Beretta 92FS (see below). Some of the other Secret Service Agents on board Air Force One also use them, even though in real life the Beretta has never been issued to the Secret Service. Secret Service Agent Gibbs ( Xander Berkeley) uses a Beretta 92FS fitted with a suppressor to execute the Secret Service Agents guarding the armory.
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