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The movie takes place as two parallel plots separated by a couple of years: In 1982, Wylie Cooper (Moore) is an engineer developing a Tank#Fire control on a tank for the United States Army. In 1984, Murphy is US Army Lt. T.M. Landry, an American tank commander sent to Kuwait to demonstrate the "XM-10 Annihilator", America's latest main battle tank, which is equipped with Cooper's system. Because of the tank's poor design and shoddy construction, Landry and his crew are barely able to control or navigate the XM-10 before it leaves the proving grounds and wanders into a combat zone during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait (a coincidental foreshadowing of the Gulf War that occurred six years after the release of the film).

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  • TheTVDB.com Movie ID 14475
  • Status Released
  • Released Worldwide July 20, 1984
  • Runtime 94 minutes
  • Genres Action Comedy
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • Spoken Languages English
  • Studio Paramount Pictures
  • Production Company Paramount Pictures Cinema Group Ventures
  • Production Countries United States of America
  • On Other Sites IMDB TheMovieDB.com
  • Box Office Worldwide $19,265,302
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