A wiki listing Earth infantry weapons in films and shows

Mr. Oragahn · Post by **Mr. Oragahn** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 1:55 am

Here's a page that lists most of them for a lot of movies and shows (including Stargate shows, which feature a lot of them):

http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Main_Page

Post by **Mike DiCenso** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:34 pm

Good find there, Oragahn! A nice little reference for what real-life weapons are used in the various movies and TV shows, including those weapons that are dressed up to look like another, or are dressed up to be a futuristic weapon.
-Mike

Enosh · Post by **Enosh** » Mon Jun 29, 2009 6:55 pm

I never realy understod why the colonial marines in new battlestar galactica used a rifle that had only a 9mm caliber, especialy given that they said onscren that they need big caliber weapons to kill cylons and that the normal small arms do almost nothing

hell the fraking pistols they used a had a better (armor piercing) caliber -.-

Post by **Mike DiCenso** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:29 am

Ah, but remember that it only looks like that kind of weapon! It's probably something quite different than what we think it is! ;-)
-Mike

Post by **Jedi Master Spock** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:57 am

Actually, 9mm is a fairly large caliber for a rifle. Most real-world rifles are smaller caliber - for example, the M-16 is 5.56mm, the AK-47 is 7.62mm. Rifle bullets are generally longer, heavier, and faster than pistol bullets, which is why a Desert Eagle .50 caliber will have a muzzle energy of 1.6 kJ, while a .30 caliber AK-47 will have a muzzle energy of 2 kJ - and the classic .50 caliber Browning Machine Gun has a muzzle energy of 15-20 kJ, roughly ten times the similar caliber pistol.

Submachine guns tend to use pistol ammunition, which is why you see them come in 9mm. I'll agree with Mike that the guns seen are meant probably to simply be visually similar models.