Ranger Firing M16A2/M203--single 1990s-era figure
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King & Country

Item Number: BHD002

Ranger Firing M16A2/M203

Virtually all of the Rangers dispatched to Somalia in 1993 were armed with the M16A2, a development of the Vietnam era M16A1, which itself replaced the earlier and much heavier M14.
In 1986, the U.S. Army adopted the M16A2 which had various improvements, including a heavier barrel and a larger magazine capacity of 30 rounds of 5.56mm Nato standard ammunition.
In addition,  all M16A2s can mount the under-barrel 40mm grenade launcher (M203).

K&C's Ranger is aiming his M16A2 w/ M203 slightly upwards as he prepares to launch a grenade round at the enemy.

A VERY BLACK DAY IN MOGADISHU!’

Introducing the advance party of a dramatic new series that tells in 1:30 scale military miniatures the story of one of the U.S. Army’s bloodiest days in modern

SOMALIA in East Africa during the early 1990s was a ‘basket case’ of a country.  Years of vicious tribal warfare between rival clans had caused a famine on a truly biblical scale.  Already more than 300,000 civilians, many of them, women and children, had died of starvation.

One particular clan leader, Mohammed Farrah Aidid, the most powerful of the Somali warlords, ruled the country from its capital Mogadishu.  From there he had been seizing most of the international food shipments arriving by sea and air from a shocked and sympathetic world.
America and the United Nations had then dispatched troops to the war-torn country to stop the stealing and help distribute the food to those who needed it most.  And, for a time, that worked, until most of these forces, including the Americans, left.
Almost immediately the plunder of the food aid began again and the situation went from bad to worse…

AUGUST 1993
As conditions worsened, the U.S. once more dispatched a small force of some of best fighting units to Mogadishu.  These included a Delta Forces team:  the 160^th SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment) flying a mix of helicopters including the powerful UH-60 Blackhawk and men from the 75^th Ranger Regiment. All of these troops had a clear, simple mission… Remove Aidid from power and restore order!’

Here is your first look at the ‘Advance Party’ of K&C’s BLACK HAWK DOWN!

Released in JULY 2024.