Zero Dark Thirty: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
Zero Dark Thirty: Difference between revisions
[[File:ZD30-HK416-1.jpg|thumb|none|601px|A SEAL disembarks from a specially-modified MH-60 Blackhawk while holding a HK416.]]
[[File:ZD30-HK416-1.jpg|thumb|none|601px|A SEAL disembarks from a specially-modified MH-60 Blackhawk while holding a HK416.]]
[[File:ZD30_559.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A SEAL opens fire with his suppressed HK416 during the raid.]]
[[File:ZD30_559.jpg|thumb|none|600px|A SEAL opens fire with his suppressed HK416 during the raid.]]
[[File:ZD30-HK416-3.jpg|thumb|none|601px|A SEAL takes aim with his HK416 with the AN/PEQ-15 APITAL activated. Note that he appears to be wearing a set of GPNVG-18's (L-3 Ground Panoramic Night Vision Goggles).]]
[[File:ZD30-HK416-3.jpg|thumb|none|601px|A SEAL takes aim with his HK416 with the AN/PEQ-15 ATPIAL activated. Note that he appears to be wearing a set of GPNVG-18's (L-3 Ground Panoramic Night Vision Goggles).]]
[[File:ZD30_541.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Night Vision view of the SEAL with his HK416 just before taking the fateful shot.]]
[[File:ZD30_541.jpg|thumb|none|600px|Night Vision view of the SEAL with his HK416 just before taking the fateful shot.]]
[[File:ZD30_546.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The SEAL in the back has the HK416 slung. Note that the mag is missing.]]
[[File:ZD30_546.jpg|thumb|none|600px|The SEAL in the back has the HK416 slung. Note that the mag is missing.]]
Zero Dark Thirty is the 2012 drama that focuses on one CIA analyst's involvement in the decade-long American manhunt to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden. The film was also one of the first to dramatize the raid on the Bin Laden's compound by US Navy SEALs in 2011. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, The Hurt Locker), the film encountered controversy in regards to whether the filmmakers were given classified information about details of the Bin Laden operation and the film's original release date (October 2012) occurring so close to the American presidential elections. The U.S. release date was pushed back to a limited release on December 19, 2012. and a wide release on January 13, 2013. Like the similarly themed SEAL Team Six: The Raid On Osama Bin Laden, portions of the film was shot in India (standing in for Pakistan) as well as in Jordan.
The following weapons were used in the film Zero Dark Thirty:
CIA SAD Ground Branch operative Larry (Edgar Ramirez) carries a Glock 17 as his sidearm. The security contractor John (Scott Adkins) draws his Glock while in Camp Chapman. A man on a motorbike pulls a two-tone Glock 17 after blocking the van Larry is driving.
Members of SEAL Team Six are correctly armed with Heckler & Koch HK416 carbines with 10-inch barrels and a variety of accessories, including Advanced Armament Corp. suppressors, EOTech EXPS3/SU-231A/PEQ sights and AN/PEQ-15 ATPIALs.
An operative at Camp Chapman can be seen with an M4A1 Carbine fitted with an M68 Aimpoint red dot scope. Anoter CIA officer is seen armed with a basic M4A1 Carbine while tracking Bin Laden's courier in Pakistan. Hakim (Fares Fares), a CIA SAD Officer who accompanies the SEALs as their translator during the Bin Laden raid, is armed with an Aimpoint-equipped M4A1.
Pakistani police officers and a guard at the CIA Black Site in Poland carry AKMS rifles. Navy SEAL Patrick (Joel Edgerton) is also seen taking an AKMS that was mounted on a wall in Osama's bedroom after raiding the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad.
Pakistani agents clad in burqas wield "AK-47" rifles while apprehending a terrorist suspect. In reality, the rifles are actually blank-firing replicas used because of strict firearms regulations that make it difficult to bring genuine firearms to India (where many of the Pakistan-based scenes were shot).