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Red Scorpion (1989) More at IMDbPro »

• The filmmakers used a real bushmen tribe and Regopstaan was their 95 years old leader who only agreed to play in the movie if his tribe can follow him everywhere.
  
  
• The tank used in the final battle sequence is a soviet-made WWII-era T-34 with a 76mm canon.
  
  
• Allegedly financed by the South African Defence Force through the International Freedom Foundation, a right-wing political thinktank which it funded. _Red Scorpion (1989)_ co-writer/producer Jack Abramoff helped to run the foundation.
  
  
• The weapon that Nikolai Rachenko uses at the end in reality is an FN FAL but heavily modified to represent a twin barrel AO-63 assault rifle that fired around an astonishing 6,000RPM.
  
  
• The "Mil-24 Hind" in reality is a Sikorsky S-62 modified to look like a gunship. The same helicopter was also used in the movie Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988).
  
  
• The film was shot in South Africa, thereby breaking an international boycott against the country for its practice of apartheid. At one point, funding for the film was pulled, leaving the cast and crew stuck in Johannesburg for three months while they waited for the film's budget to be reclaimed.
  
  

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