The Gordon Carbine is the M4-pattern rifle carried by Delta Force operators during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu — immortalized in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down and in the accounts of the men who fought there. The defining feature of the Gordon Carbine build is the short 12.5-inch barrel mated to an Allen Engineering AEM suppressor collar — not a full suppressor, but the custom clamped-on brake-and-collar combination that gave the rifle its distinctive profile and allowed the operator to attach the AEM M4 suppressor without a permanent mount.
At Charlie's Custom Clones, we build the Gordon Carbine to the specification Delta used on the ground in Mogadishu: the correct 12.5-inch A2 profile barrel in the right contour, the AEM clamped collar at the correct position, and the brake that matches the photographic record. We also offer the Gordon Delta Carbine A2 Upper Receiver Group as a complete assembly — upper, barrel, handguard, and collar — so you can build the correct clone without sourcing each component separately.
Two barrel options are available: the 12.5-inch variant (primary, closest to the Mogadishu record) and the 12.7-inch variant with clamped collar, representing a slightly later iteration. Both ship from our shop in the United States. Both include the AEM hardware correct to the build.
If you are building a Delta Force clone impression from Operation Gothic Serpent, or you simply want the most historically documented short-barrel upper in the clone-correct market, this is the page. Every Gordon Carbine upper on this page is inspected and documented before shipment. We do not build approximations.