Despite their heroic actions, the site is eventually overrun, Gordon and Shughart are killed, and Durant is captured. Two Delta Force snipers, Sergeant First Class Randy Shughart and Master Sergeant Gary Gordon, are inserted by helicopter to secure Super Six-Four 's crash site, where they find Durant still alive. With the primary Ranger forces led by Captain Mike Steele pinned down and sustaining heavy casualties, no ground forces can reach Super Six-Four or reinforce the Rangers defending Super Six-One.

However, another helicopter, Super Six-Four piloted by Chief Warrant Officer Michael Durant, is also shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade and crashes several blocks away. Meanwhile, two Ranger chalks, including Eversmann's unit, reach the crash site and set up a defensive perimeter. The militia erects roadblocks, preventing Lieutenant Colonel Danny McKnight's Humvee column from reaching the area and forcing them to sustain heavy casualties. The ground forces are rerouted to converge on the crash site. Wolcott and his co-pilot are killed, two crew chiefs are wounded, and two Delta Force snipers on board escape in an MH-6 Little Bird helicopter though one dies later from his wounds. Just after Struecker's column departs, Black Hawk Super Six-One, piloted by Chief Warrant Officer Clifton 'Elvis' Wolcott, is shot down by a rocket-propelled grenade. Grimes is separated from the rest of Eversmann's chalk after surviving an RPG explosion. Blackburn is severely injured when he falls from one of the Black Hawk helicopters, so three Humvees led by Staff Sergeant Jeff Struecker are detached from the convoy to return Blackburn to the UN-held Mogadishu Airport. The operation begins, and Delta Force operators capture Aidid's advisers inside the target building while the Rangers and helicopters escorting the ground convoy take heavy fire from the rallying militia. Members of his chalk include fresh 18-year-old Private First Class Todd Blackburn and Specialist John Grimes, a former desk clerk. Prior to the mission, Staff Sergeant Matthew Eversmann receives his first command, of Ranger Chalk Four, after his lieutenant has a seizure.

The US plans a mission to capture Omar Salad Elmi and Abdi Hassan Awale Qeybdiid, two of Aidid's top advisers. Outside Mogadishu, Rangers and Delta Force capture Osman Ali Atto, a faction leader selling arms to Aidid's militia. President Clinton deploys Task Force Ranger – consisting of 3rd Battalion/ 75th Ranger Regiment, Delta Force operators, and flight crew of the 160th SOAR – to Mogadishu to capture Aidid, who has proclaimed himself president and steals Red Cross food shipments. However, conflict ensues between the UN and the Mogadishu-based militia loyal to Mohamed Farrah Aidid. In 1992, during the Somali Civil War and the dissolution of the central government, the United Nations Security Council authorizes a military operation with a peacekeeping mandate. This extended cut was released on Blu-ray and in 4K on May 7, 2019. The cut contains an additional eight minutes of footage, increasing the running time to 152 minutes. In 2006, an extended cut of the film was released on DVD. Black Hawk Down won two Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound at the 74th Academy Awards. The film performed modestly well at the box office, grossing $172 million worldwide against a production budget of $92 to $110 million. The film received positive reviews from film critics, although it was criticized for inaccuracies. Orlando Bloom, Ty Burrell, and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau also have minor roles.īlack Hawk Down had a limited release on December 28, 2001, and went into the public on January 18, 2002. The film features a large ensemble cast, including Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Eric Bana, Tom Sizemore, William Fichtner, Jason Isaacs, Sam Shepard, Jeremy Piven, Ioan Gruffudd, Ewen Bremner, Hugh Dancy, and Tom Hardy in his first film role. military's 1993 raid in Mogadishu and a Black Hawk helicopter that went down in enemy territory. It is based on the 1999 non-fiction book of the same name by journalist Mark Bowden, about the U.S. Black Hawk Down is a 2001 war film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, and co-produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, from a screenplay by Ken Nolan.

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