Talk:War of the Worlds (2005)

Soldiers w/ Carl Gustav

I'll have to watch the movie again to confirm, but I vaguely remember these guys having Ranger tabs on their uniforms. I don't think they were regular Army. Spartan198 15:58, 24 May 2009 (UTC) Spartan198

The Army convoy that Robbie tries to join up with is the 29th Infantry Division of the Army National Guard, the hill battle were marines & Army. --AdAstra2009 03:26, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

The hilltop battle was also started off by low-level passes of U.S. Air Force F-16's & F-15E Strike Eagles (the ground-attack version of the F-15 Eagle). Orca1 9904 03:31, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

I seemed to recall from somewhere that 10th Mountain was the only regular army unit issued with Carl Gustav. Don't know if that's true or not though... As for the hilltop battle, I also remember seeing A-10 blasting their awesome 30mm Avenger cannon and at least one F-22 as well.--Wildcards 19:02, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm afraid there weren't any Warthogs or Raptors in this movie. The only fixed-wing air assets (jets) I saw were F-15's and F-16's at the start of that scene, followed up by CGI AH-1W's that had no landing gear skids and white Hellfires that they volley-fired at the off-screen tripods. Orca1 9904 21:15, 17 September 2010 (UTC)

The first aicraft that flys over and fires a missile is an F-22A followed by a flight of F-16C's. I dont seem to remember any A-10's though

Here's a screencap of the A-10:

It seemed to be flying way too low though...--Wildcards 05:29, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

There is an F-22 in there, but it's "blink and you'll miss."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0TJzW5QuFE

Slow the video down to its slowest and at the 11 second mark after the opening missile is fired, you can see the diamond shape of its fuselage, then at 12 seconds you can clearly see the port side wing behind the missile's contrail. Spartan198 (talk) 09:47, 4 February 2017 (EST)

An ignorant fool's question.

Hey, question for anyone here regarding the hilltop battle between the tripods and the marines. My friend's roommate (a rather unpleasant guy) said those men were, and I quote, "Fucking stupid." I don't admit to any detailed knowledge of tactics, so I couldn't counter him. So I want to ask, was there a better way the marines could have done that scene?