Say what you will about the sometimes incoherent plot of the Transformers movies, or the gratuitous product placement, or the visual effects that are so overproduced as to be virtually incomprehensible, boy do they make U.S. military hardware look good.

Obviously the Transformers movies feature a lot of cameos from various branches of the United States Armed Forces, but you might not have realized exactly how many. Take a look at this supercut made by YouTuber Sean Green

, which features only scenes without any of the titular Transformers, and what you get is basically an ad for military. An ad for the military with a wildly high budget and production value.

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This is, of course, no accident. The U.S. military jumps at the chance to be involved in Hollywood projects and offer up access to all kinds of multimillion dollar equipment for free IF the film suits its taste. Movies like Forrest Gump and Independence Day have had to fake it because the military didn't like its portrayal as inadequate or fumbling, but Transformers was a different story. In fact, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was the first film to feature every branch of the military aside from the Coast Guard.

So yes, at best it's free advertising and at worst it is straight-up propaganda, but you can't say that viewers aren't getting something out of the deal; Bay knows how to make an A-10 Warthog look bad ass.

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