One thing that Transformers did extremely well was protraying the military as a smart, lethal force instead of the villains or bumblers that you see in other sci-fi movies. One of my absolute favorite scenes was calling in the A-10's and artillery strikes during the village battle. Just found this article.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/1...on-holl-1.html
"Hollywood action director Michael Bay enlisted the U.S. military to provide realistic props for his 2007 giant-robot epic
Transformers. After the Pentagon helped rewrite the script, Bay got access to helicopters, warships and -- for
just $25,000 an hour -- F-22 stealth fighters. As we speak, Bay is shooting a sequel that has even more U.S. military hardware on display, according to
USA Today. The director
set up shop at White Sands, a test range in New Mexico, standing in for Egypt, where the new movie's climactic battle takes place. "As far as I know, this is the biggest joint military operation movie ever made," said Bay's liaison officer from the Army.
The list of military assets for the White Sands shoot included:
two A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" tank-killing jets; six F-16 Fighting Falcons; 10 armored Humvees; the Army's Golden Knights parachute team; two Abrams tanks; two Bradley tanks; two missile-launcher vehicles; two armored personnel carriers; and a quarter-mile of the missile testing range, cleared of unexploded ordnance ..."