HOW could I have missed this all these YEARS (since 1987)?
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Living_Daylights,_The
Colt Commando M733
A Colt Model 733 is used by Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker) at his home, fitted with a transparent bullet-resistant shield…
HOW could I have missed this all these YEARS (since 1987)?
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Living_Daylights,_The
Colt Commando M733
A Colt Model 733 is used by Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker) at his home, fitted with a transparent bullet-resistant shield. At one point, Whitaker erroneously states the weapon has an eighty-round capacity, which would be impossible given that it is loaded with a 30-round STANAG magazine. Colt Model 733 "M16A2 Commando" - 5.56x45mm. This particular rifle has an A2 lower, an A1E1 upper (forward assist and case deflector with A1 sights as found on Canadian Colts), and a coated aluminum stock.
PICS: Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker) with the Colt Commando fitted with a transparent ballistic shield.
"Your pop gun is no match for the latest body armor!"
The rounds from Bond's PPK bounce off Whitaker's body armor and the ballistic shield. Whitaker taunts Bond after his PPK runs out of ammunition telling him,
"You've had your eight, now have my eighty!"
Whitaker with the Model 733
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We have advocated IRL an opaque ballistic-material, gunshield since 1997 including a working prototype thanks to a defense company that makes ceramic plates for DoD:
www.combatreform.org/gunshield.htm
The 007 M4 carbine/clear gunshield depiction is sadly notional since AFAIK, current 2022 technology clear ballistic materials to stop rifle bullets would be TOO THICK & HEAVY to stop high-velocity (2000 FPS+) rifle bullets—but Bond’s weak-ass 7.65mm PPK pistol bullets?—YES.
Thus, Joe Don Baker’s mercenary general confronts Timothy Dalton’s 007 from a position of gunshielded-40x rounds of 5.56mm rifle bullets vs. an unshielded 6x rounds of 7.65mm pistol bullets—he should prevail--but alas Bond’s hand-emplaced, exploding keychain gadgetry gets the better of him!
This won’t happen in a firefight and the gunshield on ALL infantry—or spy combatants’ long guns is still an improvement that needs to come.
John 3:16
Semper Airborne!
James Bond is REAL.
