Factual error: When the Russian tank rolls up to the two gas pumps, the crew have a choice of regular gasoline (as indicated on the pump), or Good Gulf (a premium gasoline). And in fact one of the tankers tells the attendant, "Gasoline." The trouble is, all Soviet tanks, from the T-34 up through the T-80, have diesel engines for safety reasons. (00:46:55)
Suggested correction: Most variants of the T-80 use a Gas Turbine engine, which can use basically any flammable liquid.
The tanks in the movie were mocked up to be T72s, which were diesel.
Question: When Daryl is confronted by his friends, he tells them that he was forced to swallow something. What was it and why kill him if he was forced to do it?
Answer: It was a tracking device which gave away their location. Since they couldn't remove it, they decided to kill him as he was now a liability.
They killed him because he betrayed them.
How was Daryl forced to swallow it? Did they manage to apprehend him and force it down his throat, or was it something else entirely?
Corrected entry: In the scene where the freedom fighters are attacked by the Soviet helicopter gunships, one of them fires a rocket from an RPG-7 at one of them. It does little damage - it should have been blown out of the sky. The RPG-7 is an anti-tank weapon, so even a heavily armored helicopter shouldn't be able to withstand a hit from one.
Correction: If you look closely the RPG actually hits the Soviet guy in the open area of the helicopter. The copter actually has a open door (much like the US Huey) in the middle. The Russian is manning a gun in this middle part. The explosion kills this man (possible another) and disperses the explosion out the open sides instead of throughout the helicopter's hull.
Correction: The Hind helicopter is the most armoured helicopter in service. It will easily withstand an RPG hit because the RPG is designed to penetrate solid armour and has a relatively small explosive charge. The main enemy to all helicopters, as proven in Afghanistan, is the Man Poertable Air Defence Systems (MANPADS), like the Stinger, which homes in on the engine, and could easily drop a Hind if it hits there.
The original correction is correct: the explosion is dispersed through the open space. Had the RPG round struck the Hind elsewhere, the chopper would've been obliterated: RPG-7s have destroyed numerous main battle tanks, and an MI-24 Hind's armor was designed to withstand 14.7 mm rounds, not rocket-propelled grenades.
This is factually wrong. The RPG-7 as shown in the movie has actually only destroyed a few main battle tanks. In both Gulf Wars only 1 Abrams M1 was disabled (not destroyed) by an RPG. If the RPG had indeed exploded in the "open" part of Hind it would have killed the crew.
Corrected entry: When Charlie Sheen sneaks up to the hill outside his hometown to have a look at its condition, the "Russian" tank column moving in the distance is really American, as one of the tanks has a white star.
Correction: They could simply be American tanks that the Russians captured.
It's good head canon. It's not really a mistake as much as a necessity. There's a lot of US military equipment in the movie likely because the movie was filmed during the cold war and was banned in the Soviet Union as western propaganda. The USSR wasn't likely going to just hand over large amounts of equipment for filming an American movie that made them look bad.
Corrected entry: In the scene at the beginning where the black teacher is shot, right after a Russian soldier starts shooting at the students through the windows of the school, when this happens the camera cuts to show all of the students in the room dropping down for protection, then the camera cuts back to the soldier firing again. The camera then once again cuts back to the students but now there is a dead student lying on the windows that had ducked in the prior cut before.
Correction: The Russians were shooting all through the scene. The kid who ducked down in the 1st cut could have easily stood up out of stupidity or an escape attempt and got shot.
I originally submitted the entry, and though I do agree that your correction could be plausible, in the time frame for the kids to duck down and when they show the kid dead in the window (it shows the kid lying through the window during the last part of the shot) I do not believe there would have been sufficient time for a kid to stand back up and try to climb through the window to be shot not after ducking as he did... him just standing or jumping up would not seem plausible either because if he did either then got shot you would logically think he would either fall straight back down or backwards not forwards through the window as he is shown... also (I actually have this froze on my television at the moment) the shots into the school are out of sync because when you can see the holes appearing in the windows on the left side the gunner has his gun pointed to the right.
It's more than one Russian soldier firing into more than one classroom. The soldier pointing his weapon to the right is shooting to the right but could have been any other member of his company firing at the windows to his left.
