Brothers in Arms

Brothers in Arms
TV Show · Documentary · Reality

Rocco Vargas and Eli Cuevas are combining their nearly 20 years of military and law enforcement experience to embark on a new adventure. Vargas and Cuevas are the new owners of Banditos Armory in the historic town of Ogden, Utah, and they are looking to take their expertise and passion to become a one-stop shop for all things military. The duo fix and test a Cold War Russian tank, one of only a few in America. Together they work on trying to solve the mystery of an unidentified Japanese World War II contraption that the Allied troops had never seen before. The team work to investigate, restore, build and test the most innovative and iconic machines in the militaries history and viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at how they do it.

2018 · 42m

Season 1

  • Cold War Tank / Mystery WWII Weapon
    EPISODE 1
    Cold War Tank / Mystery WWII Weapon
    Military vets Rocco and Eli restore a Cold War tank that has been inoperable for 30 years. They also create their own version of a blunderbuss and help a customer to identify a Japanese explosive from WWII.
    39 min
  • Cannon Suppressor / Browning M1919
    EPISODE 2
    Cannon Suppressor / Browning M1919
    Rocco pitches the crazy idea to construct a suppressor for a Revolutionary War cannon. Also, a Banditos client tasks the team with reviving his Browning M1919 machine gun, and another customer has something mysterious from World War II.
    39 min
  • Tommy Gun / Flamethrower
    EPISODE 3
    Tommy Gun / Flamethrower
    Rocco raises the stakes when he wants to rush the modernization of a 1930s-era Tommy gun. The team also assist a client with restoring a WWII-era flamethrower and identifying a 1851 Colt revolver.
    40 min
  • D-Day Bazooka / WWII Motorcycle
    EPISODE 4
    D-Day Bazooka / WWII Motorcycle
    Rocco wants to create a powerful black-powder bazooka, and tasks the team with equipping a motorcycle sidecar with a mounted assault rifle. Eli comes across a revolver which harks back to the days of the Old West.
    40 min
  • Civil War Gatling Gun / Wall Gun
    EPISODE 5
    Civil War Gatling Gun / Wall Gun
    Rocco and Eli surprise the Banditos team with a Civil War Gatling gun and tasks them with making it hand-held and mobile. Then, a client visits and asks to have a 16th-century wall gun restored.
    38 min

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Cast & Crew

  • D‌G
    Dolores Gavin
    Producer
  • Geno McDermott
    Producer
  • M‌C
    Mike Colón
    Producer
  • Michael Stiller
    Producer

About

Brothers in Arms

Documentary

Rocco Vargas and Eli Cuevas are combining their nearly 20 years of military and law enforcement experience to embark on a new adventure. Vargas and Cuevas are the new owners of Banditos Armory in the historic town of Ogden, Utah, and they are looking to take their expertise and passion to become a one-stop shop for all things military. The duo fix and test a Cold War Russian tank, one of only a few in America. Together they work on trying to solve the mystery of an unidentified Japanese World War II contraption that the Allied troops had never seen before. The team work to investigate, restore, build and test the most innovative and iconic machines in the militaries history and viewers get a behind-the-scenes look at how they do it.

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2018
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