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[[Image:M249ParaWAmmo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249 SAW 5.56x45mm paratrooper version with 200 round ammo drum]] | [[Image:M249ParaWAmmo.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249 SAW 5.56x45mm paratrooper version with 200 round ammo drum]] | ||
[[Image:M249ParaModel.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249 Paratrooper - a real blank adapted movie gun with bipod folded and a picatinny rail on the top of the receiver - 5.56x45mm]] | [[Image:M249ParaModel.jpg|thumb|right|400px|M249 Paratrooper - a real blank adapted movie gun with bipod folded and a picatinny rail on the top of the receiver - 5.56x45mm]] | ||
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| − | + | !align=center bgcolor=#D0E7FF width="280"|'''Title''' | |
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| − | + | |[[I Am Legend]]||[[Will Smith]]||Dr. Robert Nevile||||2007|| | |
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| − | + | |[[Bad Boys II]]||???||A member of the rescue team||Paratrooper version is seen||2003|| | |
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| − | + | |[[War of The Worlds]]||???||U.S. Army soldiers||||2005|| | |
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| − | + | |[[Jarhead]]||???||U.S. Marines||||2005|| | |
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| − | + | |[[The Island]]||||||Mounted on the 'Black Wasp' craft||2005|| | |
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| + | |[[Rules of Engagement]]||???||U.S. Marines||||2000|| | ||
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| + | |[[Hulk]]||???||Soldiers in the Secret Lab||fitted with [[Cobray 37mm Launcher|Cobray CM203 Flare Launcher]]||2003|| | ||
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| + | |[[Tears of the Sun]]||[[Nick Chinlund]]||Michael "Slo" Slowenski||Paratrooper version with cloth ammo pouch and accessory rail mounted on feed tray cover||2003|| | ||
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| + | |[[Die Another Day]]||???||U.S. Army soldiers||Paratrooper version is seen||2002|| | ||
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=== Television === | === Television === | ||
Revision as of 08:05, 29 June 2009
The FN Minimi was a combination 'belt fed'/magazine fed' light machine gun, designed to serve in the role of "Squad Automatic Weapon". The SAW was a mobile suppressive fire platform that was light weight and single man transportable - much more so than the venerable M60 (which was always supposed to be a General Purpose Machine Gun, i.e. a crew served weapon). The U.S. Military adopted the first models of the FN Minimi in the 1980s directly as the XM249 or later as the M249 (with some slight design changes in the official U.S. Adopted version. Later versions of the gun, reflected upgrades and design changes that were requested by the U.S. Military.
On a historical note: in the first months of the First Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm 1990), there were not enough M249s to supply the massive troop buildup in the Middle East, so the U.S. Army bought outright a number of unaltered FN Minimis directly from FN, to supplement the weapons. So it is not inaccurate to see first pattern FN Minimis in the hands of U.S. Soldiers who are supposedly issued M249 SAWs since the Army mixed the two versions together until the Late 1990s.
The FN Minimi and variants are used by the following actors in the following movies, television series, video games, and anime:
FN Minimi
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Notation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swordfish | John Travolta | Gabriel Shear | 2001 | ||
| Black Hawk Down | Ian Virgo | PFC John Waddell | Substitutes the M249 SAW | 2001 | |
| Black Hawk Down | Tom Hardy | Specialist Lance Twombly | Substitutes the M249 SAW | 2001 | |
| Proof of Life | Downtown 3 | Substitutes the M249 SAW with an added heatshield | 2000 | ||
| Ronin | Robert De Niro | Sam | The Paratrooper version is used | 1998 | |
| Courage Under Fire | Lou Diamond Phillips | Staff Sergeant John Monfriez | Substitutes the M249 SAW | 1996 | |
| One That Got Away, The | One of the SAS soldiers | 1996 |
Games
| Title | Mods | Notation | Release Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resident Evil Game | Can only be found in the PC version | 1996 | ||
| Project I.G.I | 2000 | |||
| Project IGI 2: Covert Strike | 2003 |
M249-E1 / M249-E2 / M249 Paratrooper SAW
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Notation | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Am Legend | Will Smith | Dr. Robert Nevile | 2007 | ||
| Bad Boys II | ??? | A member of the rescue team | Paratrooper version is seen | 2003 | |
| War of The Worlds | ??? | U.S. Army soldiers | 2005 | ||
| Jarhead | ??? | U.S. Marines | 2005 | ||
| The Island | Mounted on the 'Black Wasp' craft | 2005 | |||
| Rules of Engagement | ??? | U.S. Marines | 2000 | ||
| Hulk | ??? | Soldiers in the Secret Lab | fitted with Cobray CM203 Flare Launcher | 2003 | |
| Tears of the Sun | Nick Chinlund | Michael "Slo" Slowenski | Paratrooper version with cloth ammo pouch and accessory rail mounted on feed tray cover | 2003 | |
| Die Another Day | ??? | U.S. Army soldiers | Paratrooper version is seen | 2002 |
Television
- Kirk 'Sticky' Jones as Pvt. Maurice 'Smoke' Williams in Over There (starts out with the standard version, then changes to paratrooper version)
- A U.S. Marine in CSI: NY (episode: "Heroes")
- Several U.S. Marines in Generation Kill
- Hybrid National Guardsmen in Invasion
Video Games
- A Retomoto skyscraper gangster in Kane and Lynch: Dead Men (paratrooper version)
- Half-Life Only appears in the expansion pack, Opposing Force.
Anime
- Red Shield personnel in Blood+
Mk 48 Mod 0
Film
- Ice Cube as Darius Stone and Samuel L. Jackson as August Gibbons in XXX 2: State of the Union.
Television
Video Games
- Combat Arms (as the "Mk.48")
Mk 46 Mod 0
The Mk 46 Mod 0 is a short-barreled Mk 48 in 5.56x45mm NATO
