The top mistakes in Firefox http://www.moviemistakes.com/film1856 en Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:56:29 +0000 130063 As Gant is pulling the Firefox out of the hangar, it is still very dark, as in pre-dawn. But as the Russian officers are shown shooting and watching the Firefox take off, it is suddenly much lighter outside as if it is after dawn and the sun can even be seen. But it would have taken 30-60 minutes for the light level to change that much. 19173 Towards the end of the movie, when Clint Eastwood is flying away from Russia, the Russian cruiser is really either an American Leahy or Belknap class cruiser. 152429 When the security forces arrive at the hangar to report seeing Gant at security gate 3, they are driving an American Jeep. 172050 The two helicopters arrive at the ice floe seconds after Gant has taken off in the Firefox. None of the pilots or observers hear or see the receding aircraft or its exhaust trail? None of them see the runway flattened out in the surface of the ice? It would be visible! Are people with such poor eyesight allowed to fly helicopters? 92166 When flying towards the Russian missile cruiser, Gant says that "infra-red detection beams" have locked onto the Firefox. There is no such thing - infra-red (heat) sensors are entirely passive, meaning they do not give out any kind of signals and cannot be detected.