Goofs

The Colonel empties his 45 while standing on top of the tank. It continues to fire after the slide has locked back.

In the beginning when the soldier fires into the classroom, the children can all be seen ducking underneath the window, and nobody remains standing. In the next shot from inside the classroom, one boy can be seen upright and leaning through a broken window, having been shot.

In the scene where the boys have first escaped to the mountains and are discussing possible surrender Jed is attempting to put his hands in closed pockets with no luck. After a quick cut shot we find Jed with his hands magically in his pockets.

When Col. Tanner first meets the Wolverines, he pulls his velcro-backed "Eagle Driver" patch off and gives it to one of them. (You can hear the velcro sound.) Later, when he's at Partisan Rock talking about Erica to Danny, all the velcro from his flight suit is missing.

When the tank pulls up to the gas station they ask for "gasoline". All Soviet made tanks were diesel powered.

After the helicopter attack on the Wolverines in the mountains,Strelnikov is wearing his shiny medals on the outside of his winter camouflage. Those would reflect light and give away his position,negating his camouflage. And make him a big target. Not done in real life.

The Russians track the partisans with some sort of electronic beeping box, which is supposed to be a radio direction finder. In closeups, it's an impedance (AC resistance) meter. There are two dials and a label that says "X=(up) x (down) (omega)", which means "impedance is lower dial times upper dial in ohms". Even if the meter had anything to do with radio, twisty wire between the terminals would be useless as an RDF antenna.

when the Hind helicopter is hit by the RPG,that blast would destroy a helicopter,even an armored Hind.

No American hunters eat the heart and drink the blood of the animal raw. Doing so would pose a health risk and ruin the animal.

Right after the invasion, a dead man lies behind his truck in pool of blood, with two empty shell casings from his Colt 1911A1. When the Russian paratrooper picks up the pistol, the hammer is in the fired position, and the slide is locked forward. If he'd fired the pistol, the hammer would be locked back, ready to fire, or the slide would be locked back, denoting that the pistol is empty. It's possible that the primer failed to ignite when the gun was fired, which would explain the dropped hammer and engaged slide.

During the school attack scene, when the Russian soldier is shooting the car with the two students in it, the damage being done to the car by the machine gun obviously doesn't match the timing of the gunshots.

In the school attack scene, The two boys being shot at in the car. Exterior shots show it to be a Pontiac Ventura. Interior shots are of a Pontiac Bonneville. (exterior Lower right quarter panel shows Ventura badge. Interior shows Bonneville badge above the glove compartment)

After the first Wolverines attack montage, the "dead" soldiers in body bags are breathing; the plastic clearly rises and falls.

When preparing for the ambush of the Russian column and again that evening around the campfire, crickets can be heard in the background. No crickets would be chirping during a snowy November at altitude in the Rockies.

When the Russian Hind helicopter lands and Russian soldiers are exiting, "Front Left" is written in English on a vertical piece of fuselage. It was probably left from when they were adding parts to the French Puma helicopter to make it look like a Hind or to hold pyrotechnics for when one of the Wolverines shot a RPG into it.

Genghis Khan is spelled incorrectly on the blackboard in the classroom.

When the Russian tank approached the gas station the gas pumps are labeled Sky Chief and Fire Chief which were Texaco oil brands. A few frames later the pumps show the Gulf Oil brands.

After the Russian soldier and Daryl are shot, Robert brings Jed a horse. As Jed is riding away, the green blanket attached to his saddle falls off and lays on the ground as the group rides away.

When Strelnikov and his special forces soldiers are parading down the street, the belt of the soldier behind the drummer on the far right breaks off.

Right after Mr. Mason gives Jed his granddaughters. You see Jed, Matt, Robert, Erica and Toni all get on horseback. They can barely feed themselves much less 4 domesticated horses. Not too mention the movie never shows the horses again when they're at base camp. Those horses would need some sort of human support to survive. Especially in The Rocky Mountains.

When they first veer off-road to avoid an enemy roadblock, Jed's truck tires squeal as he comes to a stop on a grassy hill.

When the Wolverines go up to the snow covered battlefield front line and are watching the fighting going on in the distance, you see a lone American tank and some American jets flying over dropping napalm and bombs. You then see one scene of an American F-111 fighter bomber jet aircraft flying, yet the audio of it is that of propellers of a twin engine transport type plane.

When Robert saws the barrel off his shotgun, the sound does not match his actions.

When the boys get to the mountains and are arguing about turning themselves in, right before Jed shows them the shot up radio you can see two men in the background with mustaches and sunglasses on. These are obviously not one of the actors because none of them have mustaches.

When Cuban paratroopers launch a rocket-propelled grenade into the school bus, a special effects guide wire is visible.

Reflected in Jed's truck as they leave the local sporting goods store.

Soon after the Wolverines launch their first offensive, a sign for "Storrie Lake" can be seen. Storrie Lake is in New Mexico, where much of the film was made, but the setting is supposed to be near Denver, Colorado.

In an invasion of the United States, the Soviets would not have wasted an elite paratroop unit on a small town in the middle of the country that had absolutely no military or strategic significance.

When Jed and two of his friends first return to town, it is obviously day, probably morning. They pass under a stenciled sign announcing a curfew. They enter a store where they meet the young woman operating the shop. When they ask her about their parents, she whispers that no one is supposed to talk about it, but that all the dangerous residents were sent to a re-education camp. In the next scene, it is now night and presumably after curfew, and not only are Jed and his friends walking around the perimeter of the re-education camp, they are even allowed to talk to the people incarcerated on the other side of the fence. Awfully lax security for a facility no one's even supposed to talk about.

In the tracking device scene, Jed's group size was down to only seven people: Jed, Matt, Erica, Toni, Danny, Robert, and Daryl. Yet, no one in a group that small noticed how long Daryl had missing from the group, nor did they ask him where he had been or why he left. If any one member of a group that small had left for any length of time, it's likely that the rest of the group would have become suspicious or at least curious about that person's whereabouts.

Giving the location of Colorado, it is extremely unlikely that Soviet paratroopers would land that far inside the United States without detection by the US military.

In reality, a small partisan group such as the Wolverines could not have inflicted the large degree of devastation that is shown in the movie. It would require a much larger force to achieve that.

Colonel Bella's subordinate always addresses him with "Si, Senor." In the Cuban army, he would call his superior officer "Mi Coronel."

Colonel Bella's name is incorrectly pronounced. Everybody says it as if it were Bela Lugosi's first name. In Spanish the "LL" is considered one letter and sounds as "Y" (or a "J"). It should sound as Be Ya.