Airsoft Loadout Black Hawk Down Delta

Airsoft Loadout Black Hawk Down Delta

Past no means am I an practiced on the Gothic Serpent ("Blackness Hawk Downward") operation, only I'll chime in with what I recollect and you lot can go from at that place.

Gordon, like most of the residual of Delta, was armed with an M723 carbine. Shugart, the other Delta sniper, was, quite famously, armed with an M14.

The M723 was a 14.five" carbine with a "C7" fashion upper receiver - basically fixed behave handle upper with an A1 mode sight, but with the addition of a brass deflector. The barrels on these were either the standard what we call today "M4 profile" barrel with the cut-outs for the grenade launcher OR the slimmer "pencil" style butt. In general, early on M723s had the pencil barrel and subsequently purchased ones came with the "M4 contour" although, again, considering these pre-date the M4 they weren't called "M4 manner" barrels at the time.

The optic used by Delta during Gothic Serpent was the Aimpoint 5000 although Delta had been using the Aimpoint 2000 during the Gulf War "scud hunting" campaign and so the Aimpoint 2000 may as well be correct. The lite used was a Surefire 660 typically with an attached IR filter. These are sort of hard to find, but a Surefire 6P is similar and, I believe, was used by Delta at a later date.

For dark shooting, rifles were equipped with an AIM-1/D IR light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation device. These are hard to find and expensive although a few have been seen on eBay recently going for due north of $500 - typically shipping from Turkey, oddly plenty.

Famously, Gordon had a long over-barrel suppressor on his rifle (come across picture show below). These blazon of suppressors were produced subsequently by OPS Inc and had a few different model names ("1st Model", "3rd Model" etc). The one used by Shugart was, in my understanding, custom congenital prior to when OPS Inc became an bodily visitor and started to commercially produce suppressors, so it doesn't take a specific designation. That said, a few companies make "OPS" style suppressors including JBU, G&P and VFC. The VFC 1 tin can exist purchased through VFC's website and is of decent quality. These suppressors actually slide over the standard 14.5" barrel and and then even though they await long, only a portion of the total length is working to provide audio suppression.

The 723s used what we call today "Machine-15" style stocks. Almost all models of these made today are plastic, but the early versions were actually all metal. 723s stocks were, from the factory, two position - either all the way in or all the manner out. Delta armorers would drill the buffer tubes on the rifles to add a tertiary position that fit to the shooter'south preference when they were wearing body armor.

I thing to remember about these fancy, special forces type carbines is that they were COTS ("Commercial Off-the-Shelf") purchases from Colt. And then while nosotros sometimes refer to these guns as "M653", "M723", "M727", "M733" etc, they were non type designated by the U.S. military machine like the official M16A1, M16A2 and the after M4. The numbers ("653," "723" etc) normally came from Colt's catalogue - Colt normally referred to them as "RO723" or "RO727." In general, when orders came in from special units, Filly frequently just tossed whatever parts they had on hand onto the rifles - so fifty-fifty though a rifle might be a "723" it might have a pencil barrel or an "M4" butt. So inside a series of rifles ("723") yous had minor variations. Colt's "RO733" (famous from the moving picture "HEAT" every bit the M733 used by Val Kilmer) were sometimes produced with A1 style sights and sometimes with A2 style sights - once more, minor variations between rifles that had the same designation.

Something else to annotation near the U.Southward. troops in Mogadishu is that some of Rangers from the 75th who were present were equipped with COTS M727 carbines (A2 style sights). So Not all photos of guys with carbines in Mogadishu are of Delta. If they guy has a 723 (A1 manner sights) he's MOST LIKELY Delta, whereas if he has A2 style sights, he's a Ranger.

Phew, that's a long postal service. I'll rap upwards here and propose you check out these FB groups for additional info:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1167829730019263

https://www.facebook.com/groups/2324561934537357/

https://world wide web.facebook.com/groups/323878824750694/

And if you're into using real steel parts in airsoft, have a expect at my M723 retro HPA rifle build group: https://world wide web.facebook.com/groups/2332026353530975

Quondam Delta operator Larry Vicker sat down with Ian from Forgotten Weapons to discuss the M723 that he carried.

EDIT: Ane LAST THING! Due to the popularity of the Black Militarist Down (2001) movie, there are A LOT of guides/threads out there for this particular impression. Unfortunately, though the movie is pretty rad, the gear used wasn't always correct then you lot frequently find guides that basically just reference the film. A ton of Blackhawk brand gear was used in the moving-picture show, only, obviously wasn't in use during the actual events of 1993. The optics used on the Delta rifles in the moving-picture show, the COMPM4 Aimpoint, also isn't correct. So you kinda gotta be careful nearly what guides yous're using and encounter if they take reference pictures from the bodily event itself.

Delta operators in Mogadishu.

Another photo of Delta guys in The Mog.

The above image is non from Mogadishu, just gives you lot a good wait at the carbines. The rifle on the left is a 723 with pencil barrel, the middle rifle is a 723 with the cuts for the grenade launcher on the barrel (i.e. "M4 profile" barrel) and the burglarize on the right is a 653 (notice the lack of a contumely deflector) with what looks to me like an "M4 contour" barrel.

AIM-1/D

"Another tax-payer funded Delta safari!" - Here's a Delta operator with an M723 (find the A1 sights and brass deflector). He'south got an M203 and a Surefire 660 with filter mounted. You can too see, more often than not obscured by the rifle, an AIM-1D mounted on the rifle'southward left side. He's wearing TG Faust body armor and has a chest rig mounted over it. AWS makes a replica of this style chest rig chosen the "Strike breast rig"

Gordon is pictured center with no helmet. Note the OPS Inc suppressor on his rifle.

My custom built M723 with the VFC Ops third Model suppressor. Information technology doesn't actually fit my barrel very well - it should exist flush with the front sight mail.

Ranger John Belman. Notice that he'south carrying an M727 - you can tell because the rifle has the A2 fashion rear sight.

Some other photo of Rangers with M727s. Also find the difference in the body armor. Rangers used both the "Ranger Body Armor" RBA, the woodland body armor in the eye and the black T.Thou. Faust torso armor. Based on photos, information technology appears that Delta used primarily the T.G. Faust armor.

Edited April 13, 2021 by Gigueand

Airsoft Loadout Black Hawk Down Delta

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