Rambo shows his fighting skills when he mans a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun and uses it to shoot down one Soviet helicopter. When their village is attacked by Soviet helicopters after one of Mousa's shop assistants has informed the Soviets of Rambo's presence, they agree to help him. The Mujahideen in the village, led by the village's main leader Masoud (Spiros Focas), are already hesitant to help Rambo in the first place. Rambo immediately flies to Peshawar, Pakistan where he meets up with Mousa Ghanin (Sasson Gabai), a weapons supplier who agrees to take him to Khost, a village deep in the Afghan desert, after Rambo threatens him, close to the Soviet base where Trautman is kept imprisoned. government will deny any knowledge of his actions if killed or caught. Rambo learns of the incident from embassy field officer Robert Griggs (Kurtwood Smith) and convinces Griggs to give him an unofficial operation, despite Griggs' warning that the U.S. Trautman is imprisoned in a Soviet base and coerced for information by Colonel Zaysen (Marc de Jonge) and his henchman Kourov (Randy Raney). While in Afghanistan, Trautman's troops are ambushed by Soviet troops while passing through the mountains at night. Despite showing him photos of civilians suffering atrocities under Soviet military intervention, Rambo refuses and Trautman chooses to go on his own.
The mission is meant to supply weapons, including FIM-92 Stinger missiles to the Mujahideen, Afghani rebels, who are fighting the Soviets in the Soviet-Afghan War. After witnessing Rambo's victory in a stick fighting match in Bangkok, Trautman visits the construction site of the Buddhist temple Rambo is helping to build and asks Rambo to join him on a mission to Afghanistan. Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) whom has settled in the country since the events of First Blood Part 2. The film opens with Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) returning to Thailand to once again enlist the help of Vietnam veteran John J.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.