The following guns are used in the film:
Heckler & Koch MP5A3
Issued to John Rambo (Sylvestor Stallone) by his CIA controllers is a Heckler & Koch MP5A3. He loses the weapon when he is forced to cut away his equipment when his parachute rigging gets caught up during insertion.
Rambo prepares for the drop with his MP5A3 in hand.
Rambo tightly grasps his MP5A3.
Heckler & Koch HK33A2
A Vietnamese soldier is seen armed with an H&K HK33A2 rifle while watching from a tree. It could also be the civilian HK93 rifle but not enough is shown to clarify.
A Vietnamese soldier on guard with an HK33A2.
AKM
When Rambo first lands in Vietnam, he meets up with Co Bao (Julia Nickson-Soul) who is armed with an AKM. Rambo later picks up a few AKMs throughout he film to dispatch several enemy Vietnamese and Russian soldiers. Vietnamese and Russian troops are widely seen armed with AKMs as well.
Co Bao armed with her AKM as she guides Rambo.
A corrupt Vietnamese sailer steals Co Bao's AKM and holds it like any low payed extra would.
Co Bao fires her AKM through the boat roof.
Rambo drops his extremely muddy AKM when the Vietnamese close in on him.
Russian troops lined up armed with several AK varients, mainly AKMS.
Rambo fires an AKM when he escapes the Vietnamese camp. Note how the muzzle break is clearly doing what it is supposed to do.
Capt. Vihn (
George Cheung) fires his AKM at Co Bao while still keeping his sinister "bad guy" face.
Rambo returns fire with his AKM.
A Russian soldier armed with an AKM searched for Rambo.
A close up on the muzzle of a Vietnamese soldier's AKM while they search for Rambo in a field.
Capt. Vihn fires his AKM at Rambo.
M60E3
When Rambo flies the POWs out of the prison camp in a civilian Aerospatiale SA 330 Puma (mocked up to look like a Hind D by bolting on wings), he lands the chopper and picks up an M60E3 machine gun from the chopper door. He later empties it in the the command center to destroy all the high tech equipment and scare Marshall Murdock (Charles Napier) for betraying him.
The big russian henchman fires an M60E3 at Rambo in the water.
Rambo pulls the M60E3 off the chopper door.
Rambo fires the M60E3 like a real action hero, one handed!
Note the obvious blank adapter in the muzzle of the M60E3.
Rambo wraps the belt of 7.62x51mm NATO rounds around his arm.
Rambo fires the M60E3 at the equipment in the command center.
Close up on the action of the M60E3. Note bottle necked blank shell in mid-flight.
The floor of the base becomes littered with belt links and bottle neck blank shells. (you'd think they'd toss some real brass on the floor for realism).
Another close up of the M60E3 reveals the serial number is "1259233" if someone ever wanted to find it in an armory.
Ingram MAC-10
When Co Bao disguises herself as a prostitute to save Rambo, she uses a MAC-10 with a mock-suppressor to fend off the Vietnamese troops. Somehow this film was nominated for a sound oscar despite how Rambo's AK spits out rounds at ~650RPM while her MAC-10 fires at ~1200RPM and both guns have the same report in the film.
Co Bao searchs for Rambo with her MAC-10 fitted with a mock suppressor in hand.
RPG-7
Rambo disposes of an enemy boat by pulling an RPG-7 out from under a compartment in the gun boat. The weapon appears to be fitted with a strange shaped training warhead as opposed to the traditional one.
The Gunboat captain (
Dana Lee) shows Rambo an RPG-7 hidden in a compartment.
The warhead is clearly Russian marked with a 1943 date and a 7.62 mark.
Rambo retrieves the RPG-7 as the boat is riddled with enemy fire.
Close-up on the trigger of the RPG-7 before Rambo fires it.
M72 LAW
When Rambo crashes his chopper, the enemy helo flies over to confirm the crash. Rambo plays dead until they fly over fires an M72 LAW launcher through the windshield and blows them up. It should be noted that the back blast would have likely killed or wounded all the POWs in the back of the chopper.
Rambo readies the M72 LAW.
The shot of Rambo pulling the trigger on the RPG is hilariously reused to show him fire the LAW, depsite the entirely different shape and mechanism.
Rambo fires the LAW through the hole in the windshield and takes out the "Hind".
Rambo's Survival Knife
While not a gun, we let Rambo's knife stay because, well, he's Rambo and his knife completes him.
Rambo holds his knife to Co Bao when he first meets her.
Rambo scrathes the boat floor with his knife.
Rambo uses his knife's gnarled teeth to cut a barbed wire fence in the Vietnamese camp.
Rambo with his knife in the camp.
Hoyt Archery Rambo compound
Another non-firearm Rambo gets away with, his Hoyt Archery compound bow which has been well know as the "Torque Bow" because of the high explosive arrow tips he fires from it.
Rambo's Hoyt Archery "Torque Bow".
Rambo examines his Torque tips before dropping into Vietnam.
Rambo screws a razor tip onto his arrow.
Rambo screws a Torque tip on his arrow.
Rambo firing his Torque bow.
Rambo firing his Torque bow.
Rambo firing his Torque bow.
Remington 870
A Vietnamese pirate can be seen wielding a Remington 870 shotgun with a wooden forened and folding stock. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) fires a few rounds at the pirates with the shotgun.
A Vietnamese pirate holds a folding stock 870 at Rambo.
Rambo fires the 870 at the pirates.
Close up on the ejection port of the 870.