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From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: RED DAWN hardware
Message-ID: <78@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Sep-84 15:51:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  4 15:51:21 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 6-Sep-84 04:04:50 EDT
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<why waltz when you can rock and roll?>

Saw "Red Dawn" again the other night, political/realism/left*right wing
flames aside, I feel it is a pretty good shoot-em-up.  Did everybody
catch the Joe Bob review of this movie? Classic!

Anyway, I digress.  One thing I really liked about this movie was the 
accurate Sovblok hardware.  The buddy I went with had the same opinion, and
he's a Ranger at Fort Lewis.  I could see how the producers got most of the
gear, or mocked it up like the fighters at the airbase.  But:

WHERE DID THEY GET THOSE (operating) HELICOPTERS???

They appear to be Hind-A models, but close inspection with Jane's shows 
some differences.  Does anyone have any information about the helos used
in this movie?  Do the Soviets have a export civil version of the Hind?
Were they modified Westlands?  The aircraft credits listed "Wright 
Aviation International"... anyone know anything about this company?

			      Ron Wanttaja
			      (ssc-vax!wanttaja)