In the film, Gary Busey's truck is a 1986 Dodge Ram 4x4 with a roll bar and heavy duty front and rear bumpers. It has a steel rear window and steel roll up door windows, with viewing slits in them. The front glass is bullet proof. The tail bed has four small rear-facing mortars, 2 side mortars (one each side) and four machine guns. The front grill area flips down and has 2 more machine guns. All of these weapons are controlled by a joy stick and control panel inside the truck cab.
Yaphet Kotto's red bi-plane has an M-16 with a 30 round magazine tied to each wing strut, with no visible means of activating them from the cockpit.
Yaphet Kotto, and William Smith both passed away in 2021.
Movie was filmed in Valencia, Ca . Valencia is best known for Six Flags magic mountain.
Judith Barsi's first feature film credit.