Some REEL Muslims...

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3. "Beast" is one of my faves too!

I especially liked the Afghan crew member who says he's "reconciled Marx and the Koran."

That one was filmed in Israel. You probably noticed that the tanks were Israeli Tirans - modified Russian T-55's.

One minor pedantic, techno-anal quibble I had with 9th Company: that movie had the backing of the Russian govt., so it's full of real hardware: HIND gunships, An-123 aircraft, BMPs, etc. But the tanks were T-72s, which the Russians never used in Afghanistan, AFAIK. The T-55s and T-62s were good enough. Tough, cheap and proven.

And reliable. I've read that the T-72s auto-loader was notorious for trying to load crew members into the main gun, along with the ammo. The Red Army had some grim jokes about it: "A veteran missing his left arm was probably a T-72 commander. Missing the right arm, he was a gunner." And "The Red Army Choir gets all its sopranos from former T-72 crewmen."