Sylvester Stallone was originally attached to the project but dropped due to commitments with Creed 2. John Cena later replaced him in the role.
In an article from February 19, 2021, Deadline reports that the title of the film in the United States becomes: S.N.A.F.U
An acronym that is widely used to stand for the sarcastic expression Situation Normal: All Fucked Up. It is a well-known example of military acronym slang.
The "Highway of Death" referred to in the storyline as being near Baghdad, is not in Iraq. The "Highway of Death" is actually Highway 80 coming out of Kuwait City in Kuwait. It's a stretch of road where between 1400-2000 were destroyed, damaged, or abandoned. The US and Coalition forces caught Iraqi forces retreating out of Kuwait City and decimated them.
At the beginning of August 2018, a few weeks after the start of filming, the film crews were surprised by a mudslide caused by torrential rains in the northern region of China.
When the professor is using her notebook to find the codes to open the pipelines, she briefly pauses on a page with a schematic. This is a real schematic based on a AT89C2051 8-bit micro-controller with 2K Bytes Flash. The original schematic was published in 2011 at "SeekIC" by "Robert" as "Steper Motor Driver System Principle Circuit" and can be found by searching the quoted text.