The Detached Mission

Solo Voyage (Russian title: Odinochnoye plavanye) is a 1985 military thriller directed by Mikhail Tumanishvili. It tells the story of a group of Soviet marines who are tasked with stopping a rogue American commander from launching nuclear missiles that would cause an international crisis. The film is notable for being the only Soviet movie to ever show the two superpowers fighting each other. While originally touted to foreign audiences as being the Soviet version of Rambo: First Blood Part II, the film is more slowly paced and slightly less cartoonish in its depiction of the enemy.

The following weapons are used in the film Solo Voyage (Odinochnoye plavanye):

Makarov PM

Soviet marine officers carry Makarov PM pistols. Major Shatokin (Mikhail Nozhkin) uses a Makarov when he lands on the island to search for the hidden American missile base, but drops it once he is surrounded by enemy soldiers.

Russian Makarov PM 9x18mm Makarov

Sa.24 Submachine Gun

The leader of a group of rogue American soldiers who surrounds the Soviet marines is armed with a Czech Sa.24 submachine gun.

File:CzechSA24 SMG.jpg

Czech Sa.24 Submachine Gun - 9x19mm. The 24 Model indicates a folding stock. The slide on the front handguard is a speedloader for magazines.

He's rather shaggy haired for an American soldier.

M1 Carbine

Jack Harrison (Vitaliy Zikora), a civilian whose boat was accidentally sunk by American forces and whose wife was killed in an attempt to silence any witnesses, uses a M1 Carbine after he decides to help the Soviets stop the rogue soldiers.

M1 Carbine-.30 Carbine

Jack Harrison is surprised by a few American soldiers inside the missile base.

Jack picks up his carbine when he spots assassins approaching his tent.

AKS-47

The standard rifle of the Soviet marines is the AKS-47 rifle, as evidenced by the milled receiver, slab sided magazines and a downward folding stock (as opposed to the straight folding stock of the AKMS). The AKS-47 is used by two members of Major Shatokin's squad, first during hand to hand combat training and later when the squad assaults the American missile base.

AKS-47 7.62x39mm

AK-74

The AK-74 rifle is briefly seen in the hands of Soviet sailors when they land to assist the marines in removing casualties.

AK-74 5.45x39mm

The AK-74's distinctive muzzle brake can be clearly seen from the boat

Heckler & Koch G3A3

The Heckler & Koch G3 rifle is used by many American soldiers throughout the movie. Major Shatokin picks up one from a dead Green Beret and uses it for most of the scenes in the missile base.

Heckler & Koch G3A3 with slimline handguard 7.62x51mm NATO

An American guard armed with a G3A3 is gunned down by the rogue soldiers

One of the rogue Green Berets fires his G3A3.

Major Shatokin with his captured G3A3.

"Fake" M16 (modified STG-44)

Sturmgewehr 44 rifles modified to resemble M16s (the same as the ones featured in Piraty XX veka) are used by several American soldiers.

Sturmgewehr 44 7.92x33mm

An American soldier waits to attack the Soviet marines. The front sight of the STG-44 is evident in this picture.

A soldier fires his STG-44 when the Soviet marines surprise them.

A soldier dives for cover as his comrades open fire on the Soviets in the missile base.

ZB26 Machine Gun

The Czech ZB26 machine gun is used by the Americans as their primary support weapon.

ZB26 Light Machine Gun - 7.92x57mm

A rogue American Green Beret opens fire with a ZB26.

A U.S Navy sailor fires on the Soviet marines with a ZB26

PKM Machine Gun

The PKM machine gun is used by Parshin, a member of Shatokin's squad. He uses it to break up an American ambush and later to stop an attacking American patrol boat.

Parshin fires his PKM from the hip.

More realistically, he is later shown firing the PKM in bursts from a prone position,

RPG-2

A slightly modified RPG-2 rocket launcher is used by both American and Soviet personnel. Major Shatokin uses a captured launcher to destroy an attacking American patrol boat.

An American soldier fires his RPG-2 inside a tight corridor, at targets that are less than 50 meters away.

Maj. Shatokin fires the same weapon. Note the red guide wires used to create the launch.

Kalashnikov bayonet knife

A Kalashnikov bayonet knife, most likely the version designed for the original AK-47, is used by the Soviet Marines in hand to hand combat training and later against American soldiers.

The marines practicing with the bayonet fitted to an AKS-47 rifle.

An American Green Beret gets hit in the neck by a thrown bayonet.

Trivia

• Although all the American characters are shown speaking English, all of the cast were either Russians, Latvians or Lithuanians.
• The movie received some assistance from the Soviet Navy, which provided Kara-class cruiser (Soviet designation is Project 1134B Berkut B) and 2 Osa-class missile boats (Project 205) which represented U.S Navy ships, presumably Pegasus-class hydrofoils. In addition, stock footage of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was also used to depict American naval exercises in the Pacific.