When the Rambo films were all the rage there were a lot of crappy promotional pictures and stuff floating around. These two above are standouts to me.
On the left we see Stallone in his ubersexy Rambo headband and carrying a Soviet-issue RPG-7, or rocket-propelled grenade. This is a shoulder-fired anti-tank weapon, and only a total tool with no knowledge of the weapon would carry it under his arm as if he were ready to fire it that way. The weapon is placed on top of the shoulder for stability and then fired, like a bazooka.
And then there was the video game for Rambo, shown on the right. When Sega commissioned the box art, someone with ABSOLUTELY no clue about weapons whatsoever created some new kind of hybrid. Starting with the M-60 machine gun featured heavily in First Blood, and Part II, the artist replaced the flash suppressor at the end of the M-60's barrel with the anti-tank rocket projectile from the above-mentioned RPG-7. Last I knew, it was a fictional apparatus, but I'm sure that artist thought it looked cool. And then no one at Sega, or in Stallone's camp, caught it. Then again, Sly was counting his paycheck and looking to make his next masterpiece of cinematic achievement, like "Tango & Cash", "Cobra", or "STOP! Or My Mom Will Shoot!". Somehow the Oscars have overlooked these great films....
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