Talk:Hawk MM-1

Latest comment: 6 years ago by Thewolfchild in topic Delete?

July 2018

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Besides about 3-4 photos online absolutely nothing exists on this gun, why! WHY! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.170.143 (talk) 05:14, 12 July 2011 (UTC)Reply

There's some stuff out there; [1], [2], [3] & [4]. Field & Stream had a movie Q&A about it, and there's even a couple of them for sale on Gunbroker and Armslist. Certainly more info than a couple of IMDb cites. Perhaps even enough to stave of deletion... - theWOLFchild 23:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Should the page be deleted? The only source listed is another site with no sources. There has never been a single case of the MM-1 being used by any military ever. "HawkEngineering Co" makes RVs and "Special Forces of USA" is not a thing. There's no pictures of it in use, no ex-SF guy has ever mentioned it, nothing.

I have an email out to a Hawk Industries that owns a patent done by Rogark, but I don't expect to get anything. There is one source for the MM-1 ever existing, and that is the single example used in a few movies.--MandolinMagi (talk) 02:02, 21 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

No, because it's clearly WP:NOTABLE. However (and your enquiries would be most useful) it might need reworking as a fictional weapon.
BTW - is this the same weapon which appeared, much earlier, in The Dogs of War (film, if not book)? Andy Dingley (talk) 21:41, 21 August 2018 (UTC)Reply
See my post above for more refs. FYI - theWOLFchild 23:43, 22 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

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Taken from my comments in the AFD: There are mentions in The New Encyclopedia of Handguns by Chris Chant, Counter-Terrorism Equipment by Ian V. Hogg & Ray Hutchins and Jane's Infantry Weapons 1991-92 (in which it stated it was in service with special forces in the USA as well as in Africa and Central America). There is also an advert for it from Hawk engineering Inc in Jane's Defence Weekly of 1998. Might be useful for someone looking to clean up this article - Dumelow (talk) 20:25, 29 August 2018 (UTC)Reply