The Claymore Mine - In the Movies
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2024
- An overview of the Claymore mine featuring many of the movies it shows up in.
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Movies Featured:
Edge of Tomorrow 2014
Jarhead 2005
Commando 1985
Predator 1987
Battlefield 3 (Video Game)
The Park is Mine 1985
No Tears for the Dead 2014
The Punisher 2004
Rob Roy 1995
Bravehear t1995
Kilo Two Bravo 2014
Proof of Life 2000
Bullet in the Head 1990
Predators 2010
Platoon 1986
Rambo 2008
Tae Guk Gi 2004
Call of Duty MW2 (Video Game)
G.I. Jane 1997
Tears of the Sun 2003
Uncommon Valor 1983
Those Who Hunt Elves (Anime)
The Green Berets 1968
SWAT 2003
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Thanks everyone who gave their input on what they wanted to see in the next video. I'll still do all the rest of the videos voted on in due course.
My opinion still goes for M101 105mm howitzer. Many ww2 ,korean war and vietnam war movies have it portrayed. Also did you know Ukrainian army actually recieved vintage but working M101 Howitzers .
Also this will be rhe first time you will be doing on howitzers . So a good starting.
I know it's a bit late but my favorite on screen depiction of the claymore is from the Anime OVA, Hellsing Ultimate. Used defensively against Naruto running Nazi vampires.
A Scottish basket hilted sword & a claymore sword are completely different swords though both a type of broad sword for even a sabre is a broad sword!
Another interesting fact in the movie highlander he was carrying a (war sword) not a claymore which is larger.
Great sword like Scottish Claymore, German Zweihänder, spanish montante These sword weigh rough minimum 3.5 KG while some claymores go up to 10KG.
The English had very few sword that entered the great sword range just called well (Great sword).
I don't have qualms Johnny as most people have likely never seen these old weapons in person let alone handled any of them like myself.
Do land mines because there is a movie whos name im looking for that has them walking through a forrest past bouncing betties
My favorite depiction of this weapon was in Commando with Arnold Schwarzenegger. He planted it outside the barracks. The explosion was so powerful that it managed to teleport inside the building and blow it up from within somehow lmao
If you see Arnie carrying so much as a box of matches - stay out of town for awhile.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq ah the magic of movies ,I agree with your other subscribers, your eclectic film choice is peerless...Johnny, s film club....cheers...E..
Additionally, the barracks were probably just packed to the brim with additional ammo, explosives and perhaps a fuel drum or three. Total safety standards here.
Top Sekrut M18A2 Nuk'ler quantum claymore mine don't ca' know.
GREAT flick. Peak 1980s "coke" film
Although "FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY" is my long-time favorite, "TOXIC IF EATEN" holds a special place in my heart
What about "Rock or Something"?
I had a girlfriend who I thought was toxic after I ate her , I thought my tongue was gonna fall off
@@Lordfarquad1213 - LoL, also my favorite!
“Drop and Run” on nuclear materials containers
I feel bad for the poor American who decided to eat it to find out that it was a hallucinogen.
“If you can’t remember which way you placed the mine it is facing toward you,” Murphy’s Laws of Combat Operations.
The claymore roomba needs to become a reality
god help us all
On Royal Road, a popular Isekai novel features a Roomba reincarnating to a magic world. Yep, I too shook my head at that. 🙄
@@User_Un_Friendly beyond my imagination....
Taking Russian roulette to a whole new level.
Gotta find some way to deal with the ATF
every scene has a movie title thank you johnny
Clarity and brevity...Kudos...
There is a book I read years ago called Tank (possibly Tank Sergeant by Ralph Zumbro). The author said in Vietnam they hung claymores off the front of the M60 tank and would detonate them when the enemy would get too close like when placing a explosive on the tank.
Have also seen photos of vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan with Claymores placed on them, primarily wheeled vehicles.
@@jamesbednar8625 Interestingly, the Krauts developed a system for launching S-mines for this exact purpose. They were initially issued to Panzer IIIs, and later to a few hundred Tiger Is, however it was never adopted universally. It was in essence the same idea though - a tube on the outside of the tank would launch the mine into the air about a meter or 2 away from the hull where it would explode showering the area in shrapnel.
Most tank crews are familiar with the idea of 'scratching my back', whereby you ask a nearby friendly tank (or anything else with a machinegun really) to hose down the hull with it's machine guns. Obviously this will do little to no damage to the tank, but will certainly rid it of 'fleas'
I would be surprised if modern armour doesn't have some sort of similar anti-infantry device. Given all the development for active-protection systems that can identify, track, and defeat incoming missiles and rockets - it seems trivial to create an anti-infantry device of similar nature - it's essentially just an automated shotgun!
@@daredemontriple6 yeah until it shreds your supporting infantry.
@@CarsonRH Well see the thing about supporting infantry is that they are there exclusively to prevent enemy infantry from getting onto your tank in the first place.
If there's enemy infantry on your tank, then chances are you don't have any supporting infantry - at least not anymore you don't
Some kind reactive armor but active ?
I remember the first time blowing one up during my infantry training. I was very nervous attaching the blasting cap to the body. I carefully rolled out the cable gently then took cover and detonated it when it was my turn.
Once we were all done and the range was cleared I then proceeded to carefully roll up the wire back into its spool and then got worried when I couldn’t find the mine itself.
As the handling test was practised a thousand times with a wire, a fake blasting cap and a plastic claymore.
I felt pretty silly actually but it bought some much needed laughs for the boys.
Thanks for that! I'm jealous of the experience :)
me too lol
‘Those Who Hunt Elves?’ Wow! That, Johnny, is an impressive deep cut.
lol I saved it for near the end of the video as a nice surprise for anyone nerdy like myself
This is an excellent overview. I will add some additional information from my combat tour in VN. We set up “mechs” or mechanical ambushes, which I believe was wordplay to get around the Geneva Convention. We would take a Claymore and put an alligator clip between the Claymore and the battery source. We would put a c-ration spoon handle in between the alligator clip with a trip wire attached to something solid(usually base of a tree or substantial vegetation) . The Claymore would be position and hidden on a trail strategically aimed down the trail. It would have 50 feet of wire that you would trail in the bush back to a battery. Of course the last thing you would do is attach the battery at a safe distance with some cover. I personally had one detonate prematurely due to wind causing the spoon slipping out of the alligator clip. When we were in our “night position” we would set mechs on all trails and also have command detonated Claymore placed on the outside of our position at a safe distance. If an enemy walked into a mech it would blow at least one leg off and severely injured anyone 50 feet behind them. You had to be careful retrieval of mechs as the enemy was know to reverse the setup when found and you could end up walking into your own mech. This happened to a guy in our other squad who lost a leg. It is a devastating anti-personnel weapon that has been over hyped in movies.
And *only* enemies ever walked into them, right? Never any civilians? 🤔🙄
@@Drew-bc7zj they were only allowed in “free fire” zones were civilians were not allowed. However, there were friendly fire incidents where US troops accidentally or by enemy design walked into their own “mechs”.
I don't have much experience with actual Claymore mines, but they actually do have offensive capabilities, mostly for ambushes. Not with tripwires, mind you, but from behind cover, you can trigger them to start an ambush.
Also, surprised the "Do Not Eat" wasn't mentioned. I love that Claymores actually have that printed on them lol.
The "Front Toward Enemy" marking is really the perfect balance of movie cool and actually effective. It almost seems too stylish and imposing to be real, yet it is.
i honestly love all your videos, they completely cover specific pieces of equipment or topics and the way you use movies makes it even more entertaining and give a solid, easy to grasp image on what to expect and what to not expect of the real thing
Thanks man! I appreciate that
The large two-handed Claymore sword was used to break up enemy "shield wall" formations by literally breaking their shields. The mine was designed to break up enemy "human wave" formations.
"literally breaking their shields". illiterate muppet, the word "literally" in this context, is unnecessary. learn some grammar
..developed as Maribe who was on Guadalcanal and who faced the Japanese Banzai charges
@@cbroz7492 The first response the Americans developed to Banzai charges was "stay put and keep shooting, just keep shooting", but that only goes so far. When they got close to the lines, the Americans would start throwing grenades, which had the effect of disorienting the attack, but it meant you had to set down your rifle while in close proximity to the enemy. So they started setting landmines in front of their positions, not burring them, just setting them on the ground. This had a good effect, nothing ruins the mood of a screaming suicidal charge like having to hop-scotch over a bunch of land mines. The engineers were the first to rig explosives to be detonated on command, then everybody wanted that. By the end of the war G.I.s would rig whatever explosives they had on hand, from strings of hand grenades to abandoned aerial bombs.
Nothing beats running around and planting these on backs of prone snipers in MW2 (2009)
During the Vietnam War, green berets in MACVSOG developed timed fuses for their claymores. So if they were being chased by the NVA in Cambodia, Laos or North Vietnam. A green berets or one of their indigenous team members could lay one behind a tree, put the timed fuse in and run like hell. According to John Stryker Meyer, and Lynne Black Jr. these were very effective at stopping the enemy from chasing.
The time fuses were pretty simple. A non-electric detonator, a bit of time fuse (typically 30 second length or so) and a pull igniter. Shove the staked feet (likely not splayed) into the ground with the mine pointed towards the pursuing force, pull the igniter and beat feet to catch up with your team. Was still commonly trained as part of the Australian Peel drill for SF ODAs into the late 80s.
I was a combat engineer in the Marine Corps. I have used at least one. We also made improvised ones with a soap holder and hex nuts. You set it off with det cord.
There’s a warning on the back of a claymore mine that warning you not to eat it implying that enough people have tried to eat anti personal mines that they had to add a warning
They ate the C-4, not the mine.
@@frednonenot sure if the distinction matters.
Ive read stories about Vietnam where Vietnamese sappers would crawl under the wire and turn Claymores around so they faced the American's. The Yanks counteracted this by putting grenades under the mines with the pins out. I also remember on an episode of the tv show Booker that the hero shot a Claymore with a pistol to set it off. He survived the back blast of course.
I've never heard of greandes under them but I've definitely heard of sappers moving claymores. I've heard they would sometimes just move them to the left and right of the " wire tunnel" they were clearing.
Most US grenades have a 3 second delay fuse. Placing these under a claymore would not have the desired effect unless fuse was changed. While I cannot say for certain about this being done with claymores I do know for a fact we would often replace standard grenade fuse with one from a smoke grenade since smoke grenades fuses go off immediately. We would then place that grenade under a piece of equipment, like a helmet or empty ammo can, for the VC or NVA to find. How effective this was I cannot say since we seldom ever walk the same trails or paths.
During the Vietnam war, there were a couple of attempts to arm convoy escort gun trucks with claymore mines. The idea being that since the mine acted like a giant shotgun shell, it could disrupt ambushes. Unfortunately, the mines completely destroyed the trucks they were attached to and the plan was scrapped.
It's basically a disposable giant single round shotgun. Incidentally, I've heard actual shotguns referred to as "reloadable Claymores."
Does that mean the shotgun traps in fallout are wasteland claymores?
@@MrAsaqe Yeah, pretty much. You know what they say.
War...War never changes.
Although, to be fair the claymore is designed with like a 60° spread. A shotgun, assuming cylinder bore, with double-ought buckshot, at 30 yds, you're probably looking at an 18" pattern. The shotgun traps in Fallout, at the ranges they're typically used, you're looking at probably a 2" pattern.
Hello Again Johnny .
Thank's to Emanuel Perez comment , I got reminded that other countries also succcessfully copied the M18 Claymore mine design.
The Yugoslavs had two designs :- One exact Copy MRUD (Mina usmerena rasprskavajućeg dejstva - Directed fragmentation mine) and another one idk about
The Chinese has the Type-66 Claymore which were reverse engineered copies of US Claymore models they got their hands on from various sources .
The Soviets / Russians had the MON series (MON 50 and MON 90)
The French had the MAPED F1
and the South Africans had the Mini MS-803 mine .
I learned to fire a claymore mine at Ft. Jackson. We practiced on trees that needed to be removed. Very fun.
Good video!!! While in US Army from 1981-2001, had trained with the M18A1 Claymore Mine numerous times and even got to set a bunch of them off as well - sort of like a big B=O=O=M similar to a fragmentation grenade going off. There is an upgraded version of the Claymore that operates off of a shock tube. Same basic principle setting the Claymore up just different detonating system. Only seen pictures/videos of that version. Was told that main reason for the shock tube is so that the enemy cannot recover whatever is left of the electrical wire and use it against friendly forces - you would be surprised on the number of uses that that electrical wire has, only limited to the imagination. Shock tube is pretty much useless once fired so no real sense in trying to recover that junk. Shock tube is also used in modern military explosives (I grew up in the era of electric, non-electric, and wires that made things go B-O-O-M).
Also, since I work at a warehouse on a military installation, part of my job is to issue out the TRAINING version of the Claymore. Am constantly surprised at how many of today's soldiers are UNFAMILIAR with the Claymore, so I have impromptu training classes with the soldiers on the various parts, what to look for, set up, recovery, whatever so that way they can accomplish whatever training event they may encounter. I also try to name movies that they may see the Claymore in, and I do get quite a few odd/baffled looks.
Also, and probably MOST IMPORTANT thing about the Claymore: the CARRYING BAG has multiple purposes, primarily being EXCELLENT for placing your shaving gear in it or used as a tool bag - again only limited to the imagination. Once we would finish firing off Claymores at a range, everyone would literally be begging the Ammo NCO for those bags, but they had to be turned in for accountability, along with the Clacker, Test Set, and what was left of the firing wire. Of course, a few carrying bags would "accidentally" come up missing.
This is some fantastic additional info! Thank you so much!
Its the same mine M18A1, just the initiator is different. Shock cord, blasting cap, and firing device instead of electric to allow daisy chaining. Only engineers get to play with those usually.
Love that you gave us the opportunity to vote for topics. Amazing how fast you montage these videos in that short amount of time.
Thanks man! It was a fun project work on. Lots of good movies.
The only movies I've seen the claymore mine being used in were Commando, Predator and Predators, and Rambo 4. My favorite scenes with the claymore mine are Commando and Rambo 4. That explosion was in Rambo 4 was so huge and the scene in Commando was awesome as always.
Was glad that Johnny used the scenes from "Tears of the Sun" - kick-a$$ battle scenes in that movie regardless of what people may think.
My fave was in Platoon. When Charlie Sheen first got there he fumbled with the switch, at the end he was "click click click bayam!
The bomb in Rambo movie is Tallboy. Smaller than Grand Slam, but still effective as Earthquake bomb at 5 long tons
In the movie it is called a Tallboy but I seen some discussion online that states the prop better resembles a Grand Slam so I was trying to save myself from a torret of, "well actuallys." I personally can't say for certain though, but the fins looks Grand Slamish to me.
In OIF I 1st Tank Bn. (USMC) lost a platoon commander on the advance and his tank was damaged needing to be towed. 2 of his crew opted to ride in the towed tank to provide rearward cover fire to the column, and as a security measure rigged a 180° series of Claymores around the hull. Dudes were legit. I’ll never forget that sight.
The Park is Mine. A genuine classic.
JJ, I always loved Reb Brown’s character Blaster demo of a claymore in Uncommon Valor
I remember back during early 2000s I was watching a documentary about military action during the V.N.war(I think either about U.S.Navy Seals or US Army rangers during the VN War).There was a North VN soldier veteran who was interviewed for the documentary.Even though he was speaking in Vietnamese and English subtitles was shown on bottom of tv screen📺,he said perfectly understandable,"Claymore",and bottom of screen it showed,"claymore" mine.
Worth knowing, the appearance in The Simpons episode "Summer of 4'2" featured in a fireworks shop: "Playmore with Claymore!"
I never thought I'd see Chabboy and Azzy in one of these videos! I watched them back in 2014 when I started playing battlefield and I still laugh hard when I go back and watch them nowadays. Great video as always dude
The claymore never causes flames. It fires a massive blast of ball bearings but not flames. As it fires ball bearings it does not cause secondary explosions. It was developed based on experiences of human wave attacks in Korea.
It was pretty crazy to me to see how large the blast radius was in real life than video games.
A company I worked in had an accidental explosion. For simplicity sake imagine some leaked gasoline slowly evaporating in a room. It wasn't much, but it distributed shards and debris over 100m!
Or in other words, nothing was safe across the rather large company yard and even after it it still covered a lot of empty space. It miraculously missed the workers and even a group of children going to school not far from the company. My former boss was on the yard and got waved over by a colleague who wanted to chat with him. He thus entered sort of a garage where the other person was standing and as soon as he did, that explosion occurred and shards left impressions on the wall next to where he was standing...
What has 700 balls, 4 legs and F's up soldiers. The m18 claymore mine.
Commando, the most effective claymore ever placed
o.k. Johnny good work again. Thanks for the internal details of the Claymore construction.
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Glad to see you mention airsoft!
My grandfather and I both hate that particular clip in "The Green Berets" where John Wayne walks in front of the Claymore. For him, it was kind of a personal bit, as he's seen what those things can actually do, so he thinks (even though its a movie) that it was very irresponsible.
Retired Marine Combat Engineer. 1371. Worked as VFW Service Officer. Had a guy who wanted to file a claim for disability. Said " was holding a claymore, when somebody hit the clacker". The backblast hurt a couple of fingers. I said "how am I talking to you?"
The M18 mine is 100% more affective if tactically used on a Roomba vacuum. The idea being to direct the blast towards the enemy from the most affective angle. 50 casualties could easily become 150 casualties from a single tactical Roomba strike.
Hey Johnny,
A Claymore is much more likely to be set in a Deliberate Ambush than a Quick Ambush. A Quick Ambush is opportunistic and probably wouldn't have time to set Claymores.
hmm yah that is fair!
You don't fuse the mine, then reel out the wire. You reel out the wire then fuse the mine.
During my time in the military I actually had training in how to set up anti-personal and anti-tank claymores. Sadly we only got dummys to place and weren't given real ones :(
ah what a tease !
In my time in the Army, 71 through 77, we were given instruction on how to setup and use claymores in Basic Training. In AIT as a 12B, Combat Engineer, we got to detonate a claymore for real, along with a low end form of C4, a 1lb block was about a quarter strength of a standard 1lb block of C4 and the M16A2 variant of landmine fondly know as the 'Bouncing Betty'.
Are you sure you're not talking about something else? The claymore is anti-personnel, not anti-tank. I've trained with the anti-personnel version in the Marines. Never heard of any claymore designed for armor.
To quote a Scottish sergeant I knew: "It's nae a sword, it's a grea' green box f'r blowin' up (censored)."
When I see a Claymore, all I think about is a free kill in Siege.
thanks for adding this one
I remember it as part of the standard issue equipment in a board game I used to play ages ago
as a time traveling VN war GI
Time Tripper
Also reminds me of the wound dressings with “Other Side Towards Wound” on them as in the famous photo by Don McCullin.
A statement of the bleeding obvious never hurts in matters of life and death.
@@DavidCowie2022 that! Is a very good point!,!
Interesting video. Also good to know someone out there aside from me remembers "Those who Hunt Elves". Also I do love the informative content in this video. Especially talking about the clackers. My friend used to give out clackers converted into cigarette lighters as a present for his business.
We needed him, and he delivered
The Rambo 4 bomb was a WW2 Grand Slam one. Sly wanted to put something WW2 releated in the script.
Ron Swanson kept one on his desk.
I caught that just as I finished editing this. Sadly, I end up finding these gems over and over and sometimes can never finish a project.
Great visit. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
This is a very underrated channel. Should have way more subs.
Thanks Tony!
Can’t wait for the M-16 😃
I trained with the claymore in San Antonio, TX while in the USAF - Security Forces
Very cool! Never got my hands on one.
I'm going to need a few of those to keep my neighbors dog from shitting on my lawn.
1:05 NOVRISCH love how you added that in!
Maybe the "Grand Slam" or Tallboy bomb in Rambo is just a regular 2000 lb bomb that was misidentified as one?
Good to see the land mine that lets people say “oh shit” before they die has its day of fame on ur channel
Love the NOVRITSCH clip...love to see synergy among my favorite UA-camrs.
I didn't realize how many movies the Claymore is but Rambo seems to use it most and I've never had the patience to watch those movies. I honestly believe what they do to a human at close range is more terrifying then how Hollywood gets it wrong.
Loved the Predator comment, and the Rambo Four bit!
Actually, Britain did drop a lot of bombs in the jungle, I found out, so it (the blockbuster bomb being there) is plausible, if not likely.
You are also supposed to shout, "Claymore!" when detonating them. That is just before detonation.
I did that once, but my shout came out afterward (admits sheepishly). NTC, early 90s.
My fave was in Platoon, when Charlie Sheen first got there, he fumbled with the switch on the ambush. At the end attack, he was like click click click BAYAM!
Click click click BAYAM! Ah you get it. Great vid, well done.
There was a certified badass in the 101st named David "Fireball" Dixon during Vietnam. Every mission out (part of the LRRP unit with the 1st Brigade) he wore a claymore mine strapped to his chest with a short wire and clacker in an easy to reach spot. He figured if he was going out he was going out with a bang.
Unfortunately, Fireball and his team were ambushed in their NDP and he was killed. He did not have to use his mine as his fellow LRRPs despite all odds and severe injuries, kept the enemy at bay until the QRF arrived.
In training, was told if at night, the curve told you which way to face it. Remember basic, sound a sleep solider would yell " claymore, claymore, claymore". Then another would yell " I see the light" 3 times. The tester, can't remember but I think it was M40. Scared me at night when you hear that
I was hoping you would use atleast one Green beret scene, I was kinda hoping for the final sacrifice when he sets of the claymores and stops the attack.
There is a video on UA-cam that has demonstrated the true power of claymore against a truck next to it, the ball bearing shredded so much of the steel chassis of the truck, truely horrific in battle.
good video! still waiting for the m16 though
Still can't believe if the shield + claymore combo trick could be carried out in real life or not . Can somebody debunk that?
I would say that shield would weigh a ton and some of the over-pressure might still mess you up. But I too would love to hear from people with more explosive experience.
Ok I was talking about the Movie "Nobody" where Hutch kills Yuri by using this combo in the climax scene.
Yeah, you could technically do that. The ballistics-rated shield would probably protect you from the shrapnel, but the impact from the explosion would still mortally wound you. The shield would probably have a similar force of a solid wood table dropped from a 50 story building.
Its a shame Mythbusters isn't on anymore, as this would be a good experiment for them.
No the concussion of the explosion itself will kill you. This is way when a big enough bomb or artillery shell goes off near a person and they are behind cover (concrete, woods or other items) will not protect the person, The concussion over pressure will kill the person.
The Claymore sword was designed to defend against cavalry by taking both front legs out. The use of the mine is similar to that function; sweeping low.
An old ditty from my Army days..."Here comes Peter Cotton Tail....hopping down the bunny trail...BOOM!.....CLAYMORE!"
It was actually invented by Canadian and French soldiers in the Korean war. The idea gave the U.S. the inspiration to make the Claymore.
And the U.S. took the name for it from a Scottish sword.
Wrote about “round mines”, which were inspired by these. Those were fictional.
Was some years later that I learned about the Russian MON-100 and -200 mines - which are real life “round mines.”
They are still uses with “tripwires” you just have to recover them after; this can work say as an un-observes defensive line or doorway of a room/building being used as an observation post.
Glad you included The Punisher
Very underrated movie
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq indeed...
There's a film from the VN war where the aftermath of an ambush shows the lead man cut in half by the Claymore. All that was left was his upper torso and head; the bottom part was .... somewhere else.
Oh wow. You used a scene from Bullet in The Head. Hell of a movie.
A mate of mine who is an artillery man told me these things are the loudest thing he’s ever heard go off by far
Really? I didn't think they were much different than a frag.
@@T_81535 apparently not
Awesome as always
Edge of Tomorrow, the best movie no one has seen.
I didn't see Ron Swanson?
I try to avoid TV shows it's seem more problematic for copyright issues. I don't really know why. Edge of Tomorrow is a brilliant film though. Very underrated.
I call the vas car system a claymore mine when i was playing the game call of duty mw2 and mw3 they have them in the games and the vas car system that local police use kind of look like a claymore set up on the side of the road
I love these.
Very useful bits of kit.
Great video, thanks
I still love the German Bouncing Betty Anti-Personal mine
I remember in BCT/AIT one of these being detonated into a berm for demonstrative purposes. We were behind another berm about 50 yrds behind it, and for about 30 seconds afterwards clods of dirt rained down on us, lol!
aimed about 10 to 20 mts in front at ground level or there abouts and when detonated, the blast does actually kick back a little which in turns sends most the ball bearings upwards more to help effect the lethality more and someone correct me if im wrong, but i believe you can no longer set up banks of claymores., well thats what we were told during my time in Australian army. We could only set up as individual mines, something about Geneva convention or shit like that but very effective when waiting in ambush
Try doing the M26 “Lemon” grenade next.
Weirdest thing I’ve seen done with a M18 Claymore was during UNITAS. Peruvian Naval Infantry sawed one in half. Use half now for training, use the other half for future training.
lol
In Vietnam, atleast MACV-SOG guys made claymores with 5 and 10 second fuses. When they were chased by enemy force, they would put these agaisnt trees so that tree would absorp the backblast, pull the pin and run. The enemy would then get hit in the face. The thing was, they had the fuses and the blasting caps in the mine when had them in their rugs
Predator was good, but "Dutch" was betrayed by his superiors from the start.
My favourite depiction of the Claymore is in Parks and Rec, where Ron Swanson 'detonates' his in the office! 🤣
I dropped the ball on that one but I try to avoid TV shows as the copyright system is a bit more picky on them for some reason
Bandages say "Other side toward wound." Claymores say "Front toward enemy" I guess it's nice to have guidance about fundamentals when things get nasty. A quibble: I don't think anything has been made with "tin foil" since the 1940s. It al-u-min-i-um now, mate. ;) Thanks for another interesting and informative video!
Lol tinfoil I forgot that was local Saskatchewan thing for me to say...
Ha ha. Though I lived in Saskatchewan for 3 years I learned tin foil as a kid in Colorado.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I knew what you meant.
I heard, from a comedian, the other side says "DO NOT EAT". You have to solder proof these things.
@@IVANGROZNEY Ha! Or try to smoke. Or steal and try to sell out in town...
Missing is the rule to never tie them to a tree. It changes the blast pattern. Always place them in the open well away from rear obstacles.
Designed by macloud… of the clan macloud 😯 there will be be only 1
haha I ALMOST tried squeezing some highlander in this video
The claymore mine. The anti have a nice day mine.
Awsome video, especially like the clip from the park is mine
Hey Johnny can you please do the A-20 havoc and the vickers welligton 3 please
Eventually! Absolutely.
I was just shy of my 18th birthday when I got my training, and I was just past my 40th before I ever had to place a live one defensively. You never forget the first time, wondering if you did it right until it goes off.