Can't remember what video game it was, but when you equipped the claymore and hit the sight button ( left trigger or right thumbstick) you see down the claymore's "sight"
It's pretty crazy how deeply video games have given people misconceptions about how these weapons work. Anything from lasers to tripwires have been shown as the trigger mechanism in video games but only rarely are they accurately depicted as being a command-detonated weapon.
They can be rigged with either. When they are, the tripwire is connected to the same detonator used in the m67 grenade. And yes, laser tripwire is totally a thing. It operates the same as a standard wire, just using a laser and reflector. Break the beam or trip the wire and boom.
Don't even lol. My last few years in the Royal Marines Commandos saw me training recruits and everytime I gave them demonstrations and training on the Clams, I'd just see a sea of young puzzled Call of duty veterans realising that they were lied to by games and that war is more technical, mathematic and complicated than just quick scoping and firing weapons in full auto
4:22 i would not take away the test set and connect to the trigger while the handle is still pressed down as shown on video :) ... might be a small detail but an important one if someone follow this step by step :)
It would not make a difference. There are no batteries in the trigger device. It generates the electric charge by squeezing it. The curvature of the charge on a metal plate makes it work the way it does( Physics) . But if you want to increase kill distance. Place it's back snug up against a tree or other such sturdy thing(wall, bumper of a car etc..).. It's a equal and opposite reaction thing. This can be scaled up a lot. See movie Swordfish. It's pretty close to what happens with less C-4. And with. In real life a 20# C-4 charge. It would be worse. That is what most people do not understand when a heavy armored Humvee is destroyed with all onboard dead.
@@jeffreydavidconner So its safer to connect while the trigger is pressed down. If not pressed down you risk pressing it down while connecting. So the instruction is correct. Knowing how something works is importend before making judgements.
When I was in the Navy during the 80s I was taking with a SeaBee that served in Vietnam. The subject about claymores came up, and it was common for the NVA sappers to locate the mines and turn them back towards our personnel. The old salt said they would booby trap the claymores with a grenade by placing it under the mine with the pin out The weight of the mine held the spoon ( detonator ) in place. Once moved by the NVA sappers they got a very big surprise... Problem solved
18 years old in a radio bunker alone 13 hours a night 7 days a week I had a footlocker with 4 claymores,4 frag grenades,10 phosphorous grenades to melt the equipment had we been over ran,200 rounds of M-16 ammo and I had an M-16. Now I'm 70 years old and the VA clinic has a sign "No weapons or knives allowed'. Odd how things change when the Government has a war going ain't it???
I own an M33 Claymore Training set. The important distinction between the two: my version the mine itself is colored blue which is standard code for training ammo which doesn't contain any propellants or explosives and cannot be made to function as the original was designed. With that out of the way, the rest of the set has real components like the clacker and test set. The Claymore itself is a terrifying weapon, as my friends and I call it "The world's smallest superweapon." Enough punch to knock out an enemy squad (about 12 personnel). They work well in the role of both ambush and defensive.
@@davidorth4906 the HOLY BIBLE says, "THOU SHALT NOT MURDER." The brainwashed U.S. soldiers should not have invaded Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Why do the U.S. soldiers keep defending their betrayers, the evil Devil worshipping Freemason politicians ?
The claymore / claymores can be detonated out to and past 100 meters using two 9 volt batteries connected in series. The firing device is easy to make , will detonate multiple claymores and more reliable than the clacker . ATB
Years ago we were training at the demolitions pit with all kinds of explosive stuff, mines, TNT, det cord and M18A1's. We had to have a medic with us anytime we trained with explosives, and he kept complaining he had no place to sit while we did our thing. So, we taped a Claymore to a stout pine tree and set it off. The back plate shattered the tree trunk and felled the tree handily. The medic now had a place to sit on the downed tree trunk.
I had an Ex Vietnam Green Beret neighbor who had decorative dummy M18A1 mines placed in his backyard around his swimming pool, facing outwards. He used to tell me that scrounging insurgents used to sneak in and grab emplaced M18A1s during the night and use them in the jungle for their own ambushes. “The dumb ones” that did not know about the back blast would be sitting behind the mine when they detonated them. It was also more than just the blast force. Debris can fly back with force enough to kill for a very long distance. He would often go out on patrols in the jungle and spot the feet of the claymore and the hands of the insurgent afterwards. The insurgents Darwin Awarded themselves into oblivion because they had not read the manuals for either the US versions or the communist copies of the claymore. They also used to give minor electrical shocks as a practical joke using the command detonators. It reminded him of being an electrical line repairman as a civilian. He would climb up a tower or pole and often see bird feet left behind by birds that electrocuted themselves.
My neighbor used to say that when real Claymores that were in place were filched by insurgents, they they often grabbed ones that had not been inspected recently enough and had corroded command wires. They also cut the clacker wires on occasion, because if they pulled on them and tried to capture the clacker, someone manning a post might see the clacker get dragged away and figure out what was happening. Clackers were in short supply. When the insurgents set them up again in the jungle, they were wired with nonelectrical pull cords with crimped in detonator caps. The pull cords were often way too freaking short or they MacGyvered a slap lever sized pressure plate type switch on top of the captured M18 which they hit with their hand, detonating the caps and the mine. Basically they set it up to be triggered like some AP or AT mine that you buried in the soil and was tripped when you walked over it - and then they did not bury it. They hit the improvised pressure plate with their own hands to detonate the mine. They had been told the shaped charge was directional. As far as I know, the M18A1 is still the same with the M57 clacker still needs multiple rapid squeezes to detonate. I was told it was a safety function of the detonator and how it worked with the M57 clacker, not the actual mine itself.
Well, it is not as if any civilian can readily go out to the Army Surplus Store and go buy a few live Claymores and try them out. Not sure what real purpose the video serves beyond historical trivia. In that sense, it is a little weird that an instructional type video was even made. Unless you live in a remote country farm area where feral Javelina Hogs roam around destroying property, bringing diseases and potentially attacking people and pets, I don’t see even the remotest reason why the video has any practicality. There are certainly more proven ways of dealing with hogs that are more humane, more accurate, less likely to cause harm to innocents straying into the area and quicker - and actually legal. My neighbor still might have liked the idea of using homemade Claymores on feral hogs. Nam gave him a dark, macabre sense of humor. He superglued a dummy training Claymore on the top of his iRobot vacuum cleaner, after seeing a photo of someone else who had done that. I won’t mention what he once did with a clacker on a captured coyote (before calling Animal Control).
I remember when I visited my grandmother in our small town, she sowed great wisdom in me. She said: My grandson, someday some people will waste time reading your comment. Today is that day.
C4 is 1/2 outdated. The induction of H2O, thermite etc.. has upped the anti. Coupled w/shape charge copper. All by themselves harmless. Oh! there is more. Common household components are fun. NO ATF, don't come callin! I ain't doin it, just made ya think though...We are the same.
:22 It explodes in 4 directions. Can be lethal up to 300 yards to the front. Within an area of 16 meters to the rear and sides of the mine, backblast can cause injury by concussion (ruptured eardrums) and create a secondary missile hazard. Friendly troops are prohibited to the rear and sides of the mine within a radius of 16 meters. U.S. Marine.
You don't have to. I just read in another comment that it is the act of squeezing that generates the current, so there isn't any current until you squeeze.
@@castleanthrax1833 The problem is that you could impart a force accidently on that lever which would in turn cause it to squeeze. Maybe it could be seen a bit similar to the justification for using hard kydex holsters for your carry guns, because the soft ones allow for a higher chance of an accidental pull of the trigger.
@@OverTheVoidsit takes a considerable amount of force to squeeze the lever on the M57. More than would realistically ever happen “accidentally.” But it’s still a good idea to keep the safety bale on.
My unit would wire 3 claymore togather and use det-cord to fire. Wouls do a good job if closer than 50 yards. These were used alone known enemy trails leading to villages or on night ambush patrol. 69th armor pleiku , South Vietnam.
Yep...2 claymores aim Down-trail and one in the tree aiming down trail hooked up with det-cord and electric blasting cap to the end of Cord, connected to Trip-wire. / Old school training.
The most I ever set up was 5 at once. The concussion from the blast lifted me about a foot in the air, and I was several yards away behind a large earth berm.
Early models had flourescent stickers on the back.The bad guys would peel it off and reverse the mine putting the sticker on the business side facing the good guys.Which is why they started molding the Toward Enemy into the case itself.
Had a demo of the claymore in my nco training. We setup wood targets on metal fence stakes, against a hill. After it went boom, we examined the targets. What really impressed me was how some of the fence stakes - about 1/4 inch thick, steel were also perforated.
A 9 volt battery is enough to set off a claymore. At Danang on perimeter we had hundreds of claymores set with tke wire going yo a box with a car battery and a series of switches to select individule mines , a row of mines or all.
The Claymore has a back blast nearly as dangerous as the front blast . The side blasts are much smaller . You never set it up so the back blast comes towards you as solid cover may not be available . You set it up at angle so the back blast goes past you and the front blast cuts across the kill ground at an angle but with respect to the included angle of the steel balls so the edge of the shrap does not catch any of your own men . You can set up banks on each flank of an ambush with the front blast intersecting across the kill ground but the back blast angling away from each flank and the side blast a safe distance away back along the track usually the length of the firing cable . That way both banks are firing more along the kill ground and intersecting not straight across it . It's rare that one soldier will be setting off claymore's so the positions of a squad of men has to be considered . You don't aim it that high as it tends to lever back and shoot a bit high anyway . You aim it at waist height at the center of the kill ground . You have to set them exactly right or they are far less useful and may even kill your own men . And you can't set them against trees or rocks like you see in the movies as that kills the velocity of the steel balls . Used incorrectly claymores are very dangerous .
On long range patrols in Vietnam. I had all my men in the squad carry two Claymores, two frags, two WP grenades, and smoke grenades. The guys complained, if soldiers don't complain, you have a problem. After ambushing a NVA platoon, the guys wanted to carry more!
Some ARVN airborne Veterans told me that Claymore is very affective to clear Vietcong trenches and tunel. Throw it in and click the detonator immediately they don't take POW 😅
"Porch Pirates", you have been warned. 😂 I remember being trained on the Claymore during basic and AIT at Ft Knox in '86. Even though I was a tanker this is basic stuff everyone learns. Cheers.
Porch pirates indeed. Theyd be amazed what one could do with a soap dish, handfull of nuts and bolts and a few easily obtainable chemical precursors. 😂 They better find Jesus and thank him folk who know how to apply such knowledge are typically law abiding turn the other cheek mofos. 😂😂😂
Yea, same here in fort Dix, although only claymore we seen were training/ imitation but interesting. The live grenades we did throw were fun. Shrapnel raining everywhere while ducking behind cement wall.
@@sammyhooligan803 All 16 week of basic and AIT at Ft Knox. No 9 weeks of "Hell" then a more relaxed AIT. No, 16 weeks of "Hell". I put Hell in quotes because I loved it. I was already a PFC the day I enlisted because of JROTC in HS. It was like summer camp with weapons. 😁
RVN 69-70, the claymore was your friend. One thing not mentioned, put a piece of white or reflective tape on the backside. More then once the enemy would find the device and try to turn it around on us. Having the tape and a green eye made that a bad idea.
My roommate from our base in Germany (89-91) had a great photo taken of him at the EOD range setting a claymore off. You could see him holding the clacker as the mine exploded in the background. We had some good times at the EOD range.
We were taught to announce "claymore!" right before detonation, then depress the clacker three times. Also, resist the urge to watch the detonation and stay behind cover, in case the enemy has found your mine and turned it around on you.
@@alifr4088 I don't understand why certain weapons got banned (other than biological & incendiary) since they're all designed to hurt or kill the opponents
I remember a guy at the VFW telling me that's what they used to make fougasse for their perimeter. The claymore would propel the jellfied gas towards the target with the added bonus of the discharged ball bearings.
the storey about a man , who uses claymores to rid his property of wolves to save his sheep herd.. worked perfectly, but he was always known as the dude who used mines to solve his wolf problem.
Supposedly my uncle was killed in Vietnam by his own claymore he set up the night before. I have heard that it was also one of his team members accidently setting it off. Don't know the entire truth, but it got him for sure.
"It is important to place the right direction" anyone who needs to be told that shouldn't be anywhere it. Remember on my Assault Pioneer course making one out of a hub cap, being from N.Ireland at the height of the troubles my instructor was highly suspicious!
0:19 One small correction: all explosives detonate in all directions. In the example in the video, the metal would have flown backwards, although not as fast or far as the fragements. Even if backed with bedrock, thick armour steel or similar, they still impart energy in all direction and therefore have effect in all directions. Nothing cannot prevent this. Bedrock might shatter from the surface, heavy armour steel might deform slightly but they are still affected by it. Only after the initial pressure wave, if the backing material resist the pressure, the explosion is/can be directed. This is specially important to note on shaped explosives (HEAT rounds, etc), the expanding pressure wave spreads in all directions, not just to form of the Explosively Formed Projectile. For example, RPG-7 regular HEAT-round has 730g of high explosive, almost twice that of a standard hand grenade. Although the fragmentation is small due to the design, it is still deadly to personel if it explodes nearby. The majority of the energy is directed to the copper liner but the total explosive and it's pressure waver still needs to dissipate and equalize to the surrounding air. This just as a friendly reminder to those saying that HEAT-rounds and their explosive is directed ONLY on a single point and have small, if any, effect of personel nearby.
Used these in Fallujah and Baghdad. 04. Mach 3 is 2,220mph. You can also saw them in half and use kitchen timers attached. Made for a very lethal anti personal grenade. In CQC made for better results compared to the hand grenade.
The claymore is a grunt's best friend in an ambush or in holding a tactical point! Especially in a stagger set up! And are demoralizing to the enemy trying to overrun a defensive position!
When I'm in a bad neighborhood, I put on my kevlar vest and attach a Claymore on my front and one on my back. That way, if attacked, I pull the string depending on the direction of attack.
No no no, you want to fire both of them at the same time or else you will seriously injure yourself or worse! By firing only one claymore, you produce backblast pressure onto one direction of your body but if both are fired, their pressure equates and you are surrounded by your fallen enemies!
This was my "cartoon" approach to "protecting yourself with a claymore". Did you see the end of the movie, "Nobody" with Bob Odenkirk? Check out the explosion "physics" of that one. But, yeah, action/reaction effect. I'd like to see those two guys who do those crazy experiments do this one. Of course they'd use that human like dummy to strap on both the Claymores. And maybe use some sort of pressure scale to see just how much compression the human body experiences at the time of synchronized explosion. Would it be like a 500 mile an hour head on collision with a cement truck simultaneously rear ending????
yeah ive heard a few stories of those guys pre setting 5 second fuses to throw down while running for their lives in dense jungle, and adding wp to one of these is absolutely diabolical i love it
I have served in the Singapore army... heard of the claymore mine and was never taught on how it works, never seen the real thing and how to prepare it. During army training... we carried a "dummy" claymore during our training... last it. We called it "tian is ki". We waited till the officer in charge shouted... exploded... and we charged towards a invisible enemy tank or enemy... while charging down... we have to shout."bang... bang... bang..." pretending we are firing...hahah.... looking back... it was a joke..
Blasting caps takes extreme precaution and from wires in contact when installing on the M18A1 C-mine during a hasty ambush. Blasting caps are inside the wire spool and the rubber boot must be kept closed till you connect the wire to the M-57 ignitor. M-57 must be tested before use.
We used the Claymores in Borneo in the early sixties. I was a Royal Marine then. They were not as sophisticated as they are now. I remember a Sgt who was killed setting one up, they flew his body back to Malaya where we were based but his poor Wife was not allowed to see him in his Coffin. A deadly weapon indeed.
@@heristyono4755 We were helping the State of Malaysia, which had just been formed. Indonesia ruled by President Sukarno objected to it and was sending Troops over the Border and attacking Villages, burning Longhouses etc. It was known as 'The Confrontation'. One of my friends was killed in 1962, freeing the town of Limbang in Brunei, which had been taken over by Indonesian Rebels. We gave years of our young lives to help keep Malaysia free and I am proud of the fact. Thankfully both Countries now live in Peace.
@@peterfrazer1943 Well, as an indonesian I always knew that the founding father of my country was a goddamn tyrant. Anyway, thank you for your service sir.
The kill zone is A LOT LARGER then 60 degrees and 50 metres. The can make enemies unalive 50 meters behind them too. To both sides and the entire curved front. They can and have unalived enemies at 200 meters to the front too. Depends on the terrain. I’d rather take my chances with a bounding mine then a claymore ANY DAY! We never used an anchor post, and tried to have the back a meter from a tree to cutback on the back-blast. You never know where those metal balls will go.
Yep, a bounding mine is a lot smaller. A Claymore covers a huge area. And the inertia of the balls tamps the blast in the front direction, directing more blast overpressure to the rear direction. So you might not get an official Claymore BB but you could get a piece of gravel instead. If you super-elevate the Claymore, the backblast is digging dirt.
good video and good tips Claymore should always be in some kind of concealment but that concealment shouldn't effect the devices function. for that choose something natural to the environment light branches (like the kinds that are whispy but not full of wood but rather branches) cardboards ( for urban ) and other things use your imagination for best practices have some one (time permitting) stand at about 20 meters and try to look for it after you conceal it, should they have a hard time doing so and picking out if its obvious to them ( like as if it was obviously a spot for a claymore to be or that something would be worth checking out) hide your wire via small surface level trench or with more natural camouflages you should remember to also make sure to hide your stakes they don't have to be in the air but rather enough to anchor it to the ground with out tipping over your device. find or make a cover spot with in the ambush side (think foxhole for open ground with a "roof" even if its more a place for you and your battle buddy to lay in preferably making an L shaped ambush position or behind hard cover like boulder or wall, again use your best judgement). keeping these things in mind will be helpful for you and your squad mates to successfully utilize the M18 claymore in an ambush and give you and your squad mates the first strike capability to win your ambush. Happy hunting.
Putting an awful lot of thought into a simple task. Also, who the hell would want to go down range, likely leaving the area you are defending ( which has cover ) to go 20 meters IN FRONT of the claymore and likely also now in front of expected enemies lol... Idc if it hasn't been primed yet, don't think you'd have the time in a quick defensive setup for such things nor someone dumb enough to do that. Slight concealment is just fine without double-checking if they can see it or not.
We never saw ,much less had a test set . We carried a couple of klackers ,multiple claymores ,extra wires and caps . Spot of reflectin paint on back that would show up w/ night vision .
Ditto that. I recall having to click the trigger 3 times to detonate. I don't know if this changed or if my memory from 30+ years ago is faulty (very likely the latter, lol).
The best thing to do was to stick a few of these along a narrow jungle pass, detonate them simultaneously, and when the enemy dives into the nearest ditch, another set strategically positioned will take out more of the enemy. You could dispatch three quarters of a platoon in one fell swoop in quick succession.
We used to play a game called Carwars. My character was named Kamikaze, crowd favorite, and he walked around with a claymore on his chest when he wasn't driving. Yah, he was totally nuts. 😂
I Like it when the antihero in movies carring one on their frontal armor…i never saw one connecting the trigger and Tester in the Final Battle seconds lmfao…
my buddy was in the army.he would get some bondo put in the claymore and some more shrapnel like old brass casings. he said he said hit one enemy in the eye with and old casing and laughed. so did I . He did say the blow back was a little more pronounced .
Craziest thing I've learned today, Claymores have iron sights.
Can't remember what video game it was, but when you equipped the claymore and hit the sight button ( left trigger or right thumbstick) you see down the claymore's "sight"
The Claymore saved me during my tour of MW2 and my second deployment during Black Ops 1
Many successful camping matches thanks to the claymore
Thank you for your cervix 🫡
😮woah
Damn dude, I heard that was some heavy shit!
Good one!
@@d.b.1176lmao
'To install claymore, spread out your legs" 💀💀💀💀
First...
Okay, now what?
Now you too can ambush your milk man with a cleverly laid M18A1 Claymore. Knowledge is power.
Not funny
Na it's comedic gold
@@Wurstbrot5555 no sense of humour. Stick in the mud.
@GangBalls69_Estonia lolol
Now I know I can defend my house better with this thing! If I buy 10 set of this thing, can I get a discount?
It's pretty crazy how deeply video games have given people misconceptions about how these weapons work. Anything from lasers to tripwires have been shown as the trigger mechanism in video games but only rarely are they accurately depicted as being a command-detonated weapon.
They can be rigged with either. When they are, the tripwire is connected to the same detonator used in the m67 grenade. And yes, laser tripwire is totally a thing. It operates the same as a standard wire, just using a laser and reflector. Break the beam or trip the wire and boom.
Don't even lol. My last few years in the Royal Marines Commandos saw me training recruits and everytime I gave them demonstrations and training on the Clams, I'd just see a sea of young puzzled Call of duty veterans realising that they were lied to by games and that war is more technical, mathematic and complicated than just quick scoping and firing weapons in full auto
@@sc0ttishnutj0b75 First time i threw a hand grenade, reality hit my young man ego. You can really get killed with this stuff. Hahahhahha
Even rarer that it's wire-operated instead of a radio clacker.
Also the 50 meter direct damage and 250 meter bead range is way further then the close 3-5 meter range usually depicted in video games.
The "back" side is a common misconception. That shit is lethal in ALL directions!
So making ERA panels out of this for my level IIa body armor is a bad idea?
4:22 i would not take away the test set and connect to the trigger while the handle is still pressed down as shown on video :) ... might be a small detail but an important one if someone follow this step by step :)
I thought that as I watched it
ah ah i thought the same, but this just proves that we're not part of the sheeple (those who'd literally follow it step-by-step)
It would not make a difference. There are no batteries in the trigger device. It generates the electric charge by squeezing it. The curvature of the charge on a metal plate makes it work the way it does( Physics) . But if you want to increase kill distance. Place it's back snug up against a tree or other such sturdy thing(wall, bumper of a car etc..).. It's a equal and opposite reaction thing. This can be scaled up a lot. See movie Swordfish. It's pretty close to what happens with less C-4. And with. In real life a 20# C-4 charge. It would be worse. That is what most people do not understand when a heavy armored Humvee is destroyed with all onboard dead.
@@jeffreydavidconner So its safer to connect while the trigger is pressed down. If not pressed down you risk pressing it down while connecting. So the instruction is correct. Knowing how something works is importend before making judgements.
Damn good 👍 weapon I trained with it in boot 👢 camp 🏕 in 1979 fort Leonardwood Missouri
Very helpful, i'll keep this in mind when im installing M18A1 CLAYMORE in my backyard.
Not funny
@@Wurstbrot5555 really funny
Squirrels Problem?😄
When I was in the Navy during the 80s I was taking with a SeaBee that served in Vietnam. The subject about claymores came up, and it was common for the NVA sappers to locate the mines and turn them back towards our personnel. The old salt said they would booby trap the claymores with a grenade by placing it under the mine with the pin out The weight of the mine held the spoon ( detonator ) in place. Once moved by the NVA sappers they got a very big surprise... Problem solved
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NVA?
@@aresorum North Vietnamese army
@@aresorum Are you serious?
@@achitophel5852 There are people who don't know about that stuff, sadly.
18 years old in a radio bunker alone 13 hours a night 7 days a week I had a footlocker with 4 claymores,4 frag grenades,10 phosphorous grenades to melt the equipment had we been over ran,200 rounds of M-16 ammo and I had an M-16.
Now I'm 70 years old and the VA clinic has a sign "No weapons or knives allowed'. Odd how things change when the Government has a war going ain't it???
Thanks Donnie... I hope your life has been great since you left 'Nam. You surely deserve it.
Thank you for your service Donnie
They use thermite grenades to destroy equipment. WP has other uses.
And yet people keep voting democrat.
Depends on who they decide the enemy is this month.
I own an M33 Claymore Training set. The important distinction between the two: my version the mine itself is colored blue which is standard code for training ammo which doesn't contain any propellants or explosives and cannot be made to function as the original was designed. With that out of the way, the rest of the set has real components like the clacker and test set. The Claymore itself is a terrifying weapon, as my friends and I call it "The world's smallest superweapon." Enough punch to knock out an enemy squad (about 12 personnel). They work well in the role of both ambush and defensive.
Ok, mine has a Green handle...good for torture of Pow's.
@@davidorth4906 the HOLY BIBLE says, "THOU SHALT NOT MURDER."
The brainwashed U.S. soldiers should not have invaded Korea, Vietnam, Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. Why do the U.S. soldiers keep defending their betrayers, the evil Devil worshipping Freemason politicians ?
The claymore / claymores can be detonated out to and past 100 meters using two 9 volt batteries connected in series. The firing device is easy to make , will detonate multiple claymores and more reliable than the clacker . ATB
@@davidorth4906 Field phones, too.
They can take out more then 12 guys. They’re vicious little things!!!!
Years ago we were training at the demolitions pit with all kinds of explosive stuff, mines, TNT, det cord and M18A1's. We had to have a medic with us anytime we trained with explosives, and he kept complaining he had no place to sit while we did our thing. So, we taped a Claymore to a stout pine tree and set it off. The back plate shattered the tree trunk and felled the tree handily. The medic now had a place to sit on the downed tree trunk.
I had an Ex Vietnam Green Beret neighbor who had decorative dummy M18A1 mines placed in his backyard around his swimming pool, facing outwards. He used to tell me that scrounging insurgents used to sneak in and grab emplaced M18A1s during the night and use them in the jungle for their own ambushes. “The dumb ones” that did not know about the back blast would be sitting behind the mine when they detonated them. It was also more than just the blast force. Debris can fly back with force enough to kill for a very long distance.
He would often go out on patrols in the jungle and spot the feet of the claymore and the hands of the insurgent afterwards. The insurgents Darwin Awarded themselves into oblivion because they had not read the manuals for either the US versions or the communist copies of the claymore.
They also used to give minor electrical shocks as a practical joke using the command detonators.
It reminded him of being an electrical line repairman as a civilian. He would climb up a tower or pole and often see bird feet left behind by birds that electrocuted themselves.
In NAM we always had to slap the trigger 2 or 3 times in quick succession??? Are newer Clays different????
My neighbor used to say that when real Claymores that were in place were filched by insurgents, they they often grabbed ones that had not been inspected recently enough and had corroded command wires. They also cut the clacker wires on occasion, because if they pulled on them and tried to capture the clacker, someone manning a post might see the clacker get dragged away and figure out what was happening. Clackers were in short supply. When the insurgents set them up again in the jungle, they were wired with nonelectrical pull cords with crimped in detonator caps. The pull cords were often way too freaking short or they MacGyvered a slap lever sized pressure plate type switch on top of the captured M18 which they hit with their hand, detonating the caps and the mine. Basically they set it up to be triggered like some AP or AT mine that you buried in the soil and was tripped when you walked over it - and then they did not bury it. They hit the improvised pressure plate with their own hands to detonate the mine. They had been told the shaped charge was directional.
As far as I know, the M18A1 is still the same with the M57 clacker still needs multiple rapid squeezes to detonate. I was told it was a safety function of the detonator and how it worked with the M57 clacker, not the actual mine itself.
Well, it is not as if any civilian can readily go out to the Army Surplus Store and go buy a few live Claymores and try them out. Not sure what real purpose the video serves beyond historical trivia. In that sense, it is a little weird that an instructional type video was even made. Unless you live in a remote country farm area where feral Javelina Hogs roam around destroying property, bringing diseases and potentially attacking people and pets, I don’t see even the remotest reason why the video has any practicality. There are certainly more proven ways of dealing with hogs that are more humane, more accurate, less likely to cause harm to innocents straying into the area and quicker - and actually legal. My neighbor still might have liked the idea of using homemade Claymores on feral hogs. Nam gave him a dark, macabre sense of humor. He superglued a dummy training Claymore on the top of his iRobot vacuum cleaner, after seeing a photo of someone else who had done that. I won’t mention what he once did with a clacker on a captured coyote (before calling Animal Control).
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It’s useful knowledge when we the people finally decide to abolish this corrupt government.
I remember when I visited my grandmother in our small town, she sowed great wisdom in me. She said: My grandson, someday some people will waste time reading your comment. Today is that day.
These do a great job. US Vietnam Veteran 69-71
Trivia: C4 simply means "Composition 4." As this explosive material was developed, it was improved from C2 to C3 to what is now C4.
Alrighty then
C5 when
@@kaelevi7701 Usually when you're playing the Sicilian Defense.
Same with WD-40. “water displacement formula #40. “
C4 is 1/2 outdated. The induction of H2O, thermite etc.. has upped the anti. Coupled w/shape charge copper. All by themselves harmless. Oh! there is more. Common household components are fun. NO ATF, don't come callin! I ain't doin it, just made ya think though...We are the same.
:22 It explodes in 4 directions. Can be lethal up to 300 yards to the front. Within an area of 16 meters to the rear and sides of the mine, backblast can cause injury by concussion (ruptured eardrums) and create a secondary missile hazard. Friendly troops are prohibited to the rear and sides of the mine within a radius of 16 meters. U.S. Marine.
Yes, "Front Toward Enemy" is very important.
4:16 Before you connect the shorting plug to the firing set, I imagine you would reset the safety bail back
to the "safe" position, right?
NO....safety LAST!!!
You don't have to. I just read in another comment that it is the act of squeezing that generates the current, so there isn't any current until you squeeze.
@@castleanthrax1833 That makes sense as I've read that a close lightning strike can cause a claymore to cook off.
@@castleanthrax1833 The problem is that you could impart a force accidently on that lever which would in turn cause it to squeeze. Maybe it could be seen a bit similar to the justification for using hard kydex holsters for your carry guns, because the soft ones allow for a higher chance of an accidental pull of the trigger.
@@OverTheVoidsit takes a considerable amount of force to squeeze the lever on the M57. More than would realistically ever happen “accidentally.” But it’s still a good idea to keep the safety bale on.
Thanx Mscope good job on details and deployment. it's nice to understand why & how they work even though I'll never be using one.
My unit would wire 3 claymore togather and use det-cord to fire. Wouls do a good job if closer than 50 yards. These were used alone known enemy trails leading to villages or on night ambush patrol. 69th armor pleiku , South Vietnam.
In NAM we always had to slap the trigger 2 or 3 times in quick succession??? Are newer Clays different????
Yep...2 claymores aim Down-trail and one in the tree aiming down trail hooked up with det-cord and electric blasting cap to the end of Cord, connected to Trip-wire. / Old school training.
Daisy chain
The most I ever set up was 5 at once. The concussion from the blast lifted me about a foot in the air, and I was several yards away behind a large earth berm.
@@sunsetartsthat is so cool
Early models had flourescent stickers on the back.The bad guys would peel it off and reverse the mine putting the sticker on the business side facing the good guys.Which is why they started molding the Toward Enemy into the case itself.
Who's the bad guys
@@BeyondEcstasy humans
@@BeyondEcstasyspace ISIS
@@BeyondEcstasy Invaders /people who do illegal stuff that harm others
Never heard that
In training told troops would put them in backwards
Had a demo of the claymore in my nco training. We setup wood targets on metal fence stakes, against a hill.
After it went boom, we examined the targets. What really impressed me was how some of the fence stakes - about 1/4 inch thick, steel were also perforated.
A 9 volt battery is enough to set off a claymore. At Danang on perimeter we had hundreds of claymores set with tke wire going yo a box with a car battery and a series of switches to select individule mines , a row of mines or all.
The Claymore has a back blast nearly as dangerous as the front blast . The side blasts are much smaller . You never set it up so the back blast comes towards you as solid cover may not be available . You set it up at angle so the back blast goes past you and the front blast cuts across the kill ground at an angle but with respect to the included angle of the steel balls so the edge of the shrap does not catch any of your own men . You can set up banks on each flank of an ambush with the front blast intersecting across the kill ground but the back blast angling away from each flank and the side blast a safe distance away back along the track usually the length of the firing cable . That way both banks are firing more along the kill ground and intersecting not straight across it . It's rare that one soldier will be setting off claymore's so the positions of a squad of men has to be considered . You don't aim it that high as it tends to lever back and shoot a bit high anyway . You aim it at waist height at the center of the kill ground . You have to set them exactly right or they are far less useful and may even kill your own men . And you can't set them against trees or rocks like you see in the movies as that kills the velocity of the steel balls . Used incorrectly claymores are very dangerous .
We taped one to a pretty stout pine tree during one training exercise. The back plate shattered the tree trunk and brought the whole tree down.
@@sunsetarts imagine if lumberjack's began using claymore's instead of axe's or saw's
I read a book by Gary Linderer of the 101st who told of an Viet Cong who jumped over one just as it was detonated.
Glad I knew that before grandpa came home 😐
Setting the claymore at an angle is very smart. In front, the enemy has a body armor, and on the sides, the armor often has gaps.
Thanks for instructional video. I just ordered 6 on amazon.
On long range patrols in Vietnam. I had all my men in the squad carry two Claymores, two frags, two WP grenades, and smoke grenades. The guys complained, if soldiers don't complain, you have a problem. After ambushing a NVA platoon, the guys wanted to carry more!
Proficient, Intelligible, good quality work.
Claymore! Claymore! Claymore! Three words you must utter to pass Basic Training. For those of you still remember it! Good Times!
Some ARVN airborne Veterans told me that Claymore is very affective to clear Vietcong trenches and tunel.
Throw it in and click the detonator immediately they don't take POW 😅
thank you for the detailed instructions, now I know how to use claymore properly :)
"Porch Pirates", you have been warned. 😂 I remember being trained on the Claymore during basic and AIT at Ft Knox in '86. Even though I was a tanker this is basic stuff everyone learns. Cheers.
Porch pirates indeed. Theyd be amazed what one could do with a soap dish, handfull of nuts and bolts and a few easily obtainable chemical precursors. 😂 They better find Jesus and thank him folk who know how to apply such knowledge are typically law abiding turn the other cheek mofos. 😂😂😂
Yea, same here in fort Dix, although only claymore we seen were training/ imitation but interesting. The live grenades we did throw were fun. Shrapnel raining everywhere while ducking behind cement wall.
@@sammyhooligan803 Me too. Great memories. Thanks for your service and sacrifice, brother! Cheers!
@@TheMichaelBeck thanks and also 2U2, Wow I didn't realize that class of '86 also, Awesome same here,AIT in Fort Lee VA, Thanks again, 👍
@@sammyhooligan803 All 16 week of basic and AIT at Ft Knox. No 9 weeks of "Hell" then a more relaxed AIT. No, 16 weeks of "Hell". I put Hell in quotes because I loved it. I was already a PFC the day I enlisted because of JROTC in HS. It was like summer camp with weapons. 😁
It’s funny how people say video games are so fake on this, but really if claymores were more realistic they’d be too OP in video games 😂😂
I was always curious. Definitely an anti-personnel weapon. A good morning coffee watch.
RVN 69-70, the claymore was your friend. One thing not mentioned, put a piece of white or reflective tape on the backside. More then once the enemy would find the device and try to turn it around on us. Having the tape and a green eye made that a bad idea.
Thanks ! I just got my Claymores from Aliexpress and the instructions are in chinese !!! Time to have some fun.
imagine after setting this up, the enemies come from other directions 😁
That's what's gonna happen If the Coyote tried using it against the road runner and he'll find himself in the front of it and 💥BOOM💥
That's why you always post security when setting ambushes ( or so I've read, anyways)
That's why you put two back-to-back :D
That's when you have more than one mine,plus a M-60 machine gun will end the threat.
The claymore’s back-blast is just as deadly.
Impressive! Very well thought out concept.
My roommate from our base in Germany (89-91) had a great photo taken of him at the EOD range setting a claymore off. You could see him holding the clacker as the mine exploded in the background. We had some good times at the EOD range.
Better training than we got in the army.
We were taught to announce "claymore!" right before detonation, then depress the clacker three times.
Also, resist the urge to watch the detonation and stay behind cover, in case the enemy has found your mine and turned it around on you.
Vietnam was crazy with these everywere..geez
Comprehensive Description of the M18A1. THX Subbed. 🇺🇸
Thanks for this video! I have setup 7 of these around my house.
Back in the eighties we would daisy chain several for maximum effect. Good fun
I thought claymore was triggered by the enemies like other conventional mines 😅
Apparently that is banned by the ottawa treaty
@@alifr4088 I don't understand why certain weapons got banned (other than biological & incendiary) since they're all designed to hurt or kill the opponents
@@Dimaz42 cuz kids and innocent civilians can get hurt by undetonated mines
@@mustafaal-ghezi1757 I see.. so it's not about hurting the combatants, but the aftermath with the civilians
@@Dimaz42 yep that sums it up
Unlike a landmine , as a former Marine, you wrap it up, and take it with you for your next obstacle. Das is Goot!!! It's light and effective.
You can do that with any mine. I was a 12 Bravo, (combat engineer) we did that all the time.
I remember a guy at the VFW telling me that's what they used to make fougasse for their perimeter. The claymore would propel the jellfied gas towards the target with the added bonus of the discharged ball bearings.
the storey about a man , who uses claymores to rid his property of wolves to save his sheep herd.. worked perfectly, but he was always known as the dude who used mines to solve his wolf problem.
You earned a sub.. Keep up these amazing videos ❤
Supposedly my uncle was killed in Vietnam by his own claymore he set up the night before. I have heard that it was also one of his team members accidently setting it off. Don't know the entire truth, but it got him for sure.
"It is important to place the right direction" anyone who needs to be told that shouldn't be anywhere it.
Remember on my Assault Pioneer course making one out of a hub cap, being from N.Ireland at the height of the troubles my instructor was highly suspicious!
0:19 One small correction: all explosives detonate in all directions. In the example in the video, the metal would have flown backwards, although not as fast or far as the fragements. Even if backed with bedrock, thick armour steel or similar, they still impart energy in all direction and therefore have effect in all directions. Nothing cannot prevent this. Bedrock might shatter from the surface, heavy armour steel might deform slightly but they are still affected by it. Only after the initial pressure wave, if the backing material resist the pressure, the explosion is/can be directed.
This is specially important to note on shaped explosives (HEAT rounds, etc), the expanding pressure wave spreads in all directions, not just to form of the Explosively Formed Projectile. For example, RPG-7 regular HEAT-round has 730g of high explosive, almost twice that of a standard hand grenade. Although the fragmentation is small due to the design, it is still deadly to personel if it explodes nearby. The majority of the energy is directed to the copper liner but the total explosive and it's pressure waver still needs to dissipate and equalize to the surrounding air.
This just as a friendly reminder to those saying that HEAT-rounds and their explosive is directed ONLY on a single point and have small, if any, effect of personel nearby.
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Used these in Fallujah and Baghdad. 04. Mach 3 is 2,220mph. You can also saw them in half and use kitchen timers attached. Made for a very lethal anti personal grenade. In CQC made for better results compared to the hand grenade.
They still use claymores, I remember them well , this is from my generation
Thank u very much. I really needed it. My wife's parents are coming next week and I didn't know how to activate it in front door.
Now I know how to set up claymore mine. Not sure what to do with this knowledge, but hey!
The claymore is a grunt's best friend in an ambush or in holding a tactical point! Especially in a stagger set up! And are demoralizing to the enemy trying to overrun a defensive position!
he missed the shipping well. only mentioned the shipping plug. the clacker is the m57 and the test box is the m48
That was great! Thanks for posting,
When I'm in a bad neighborhood, I put on my kevlar vest and attach a Claymore on my front and one on my back.
That way, if attacked, I pull the string depending on the direction of attack.
No no no, you want to fire both of them at the same time or else you will seriously injure yourself or worse!
By firing only one claymore, you produce backblast pressure onto one direction of your body but if both are fired, their pressure equates and you are surrounded by your fallen enemies!
This was my "cartoon" approach to "protecting yourself with a claymore".
Did you see the end of the movie, "Nobody" with Bob Odenkirk?
Check out the explosion "physics" of that one.
But, yeah, action/reaction effect.
I'd like to see those two guys who do those crazy experiments do this one.
Of course they'd use that human like dummy to strap on both the Claymores.
And maybe use some sort of pressure scale to see just how much compression the human body experiences at the time of synchronized explosion.
Would it be like a 500 mile an hour head on collision with a cement truck simultaneously rear ending????
I was hoping you'd go over how the claymore was setup using a trip wire
the MACV-SOG guys did some interesting things with those claymore mines including taping a WP grenade to the front and fitting them with time fuses
yeah ive heard a few stories of those guys pre setting 5 second fuses to throw down while running for their lives in dense jungle, and adding wp to one of these is absolutely diabolical i love it
YT recommandations at night :
"How M18A1 CLAYMORE Works"
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These things saved my ass multiple times. Never would have made it off Shadow Moses island alive if not for a few of these things.
I have served in the Singapore army... heard of the claymore mine and was never taught on how it works, never seen the real thing and how to prepare it. During army training... we carried a "dummy" claymore during our training... last it. We called it "tian is ki". We waited till the officer in charge shouted... exploded... and we charged towards a invisible enemy tank or enemy... while charging down... we have to shout."bang... bang... bang..." pretending we are firing...hahah.... looking back... it was a joke..
Wonderful, now I know how to operate and set a Claymore. Now I only need a Claymore and some people that I could regard as enemies.
Good thing it says "back" on the back, otherwise some people would assume that the side with instructions is the back.
Blasting caps takes extreme precaution and from wires in contact when installing on the M18A1 C-mine during a hasty ambush. Blasting caps are inside the wire spool and the rubber boot must be kept closed till you connect the wire to the M-57 ignitor. M-57 must be tested before use.
No “I see the light, I see the light, I see the light “. Lol
The new MC18 Claymore...Pack (M) Mentos behind (C) Coke with 18 ballbearings in front. 😂
We used the Claymores in Borneo in the early sixties. I was a Royal Marine then. They were not as sophisticated as they are now. I remember a Sgt who was killed setting one up, they flew his body back to Malaya where we were based but his poor Wife was not allowed to see him in his Coffin. A deadly weapon indeed.
I live in Borneo, what did you do here?
Nothing...just playin with claymores
@@xaxaszaposznikow175 yes yes the good old days 😂
@@heristyono4755 We were helping the State of Malaysia, which had just been formed. Indonesia ruled by President Sukarno objected to it and was sending Troops over the Border and attacking Villages, burning Longhouses etc. It was known as 'The Confrontation'. One of my friends was killed in 1962, freeing the town of Limbang in Brunei, which had been taken over by Indonesian Rebels. We gave years of our young lives to help keep Malaysia free and I am proud of the fact. Thankfully both Countries now live in Peace.
@@peterfrazer1943 Well, as an indonesian I always knew that the founding father of my country was a goddamn tyrant. Anyway, thank you for your service sir.
The kill zone is A LOT LARGER then 60 degrees and 50 metres. The can make enemies unalive 50 meters behind them too. To both sides and the entire curved front. They can and have unalived enemies at 200 meters to the front too. Depends on the terrain. I’d rather take my chances with a bounding mine then a claymore ANY DAY! We never used an anchor post, and tried to have the back a meter from a tree to cutback on the back-blast. You never know where those metal balls will go.
Yep, a bounding mine is a lot smaller. A Claymore covers a huge area. And the inertia of the balls tamps the blast in the front direction, directing more blast overpressure to the rear direction. So you might not get an official Claymore BB but you could get a piece of gravel instead. If you super-elevate the Claymore, the backblast is digging dirt.
'unalive' what is this newspeak??
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UA-cam censors comments. This is a way around it.
good video and good tips Claymore should always be in some kind of concealment but that concealment shouldn't effect the devices function. for that choose something natural to the environment light branches (like the kinds that are whispy but not full of wood but rather branches) cardboards ( for urban ) and other things use your imagination for best practices have some one (time permitting) stand at about 20 meters and try to look for it after you conceal it, should they have a hard time doing so and picking out if its obvious to them ( like as if it was obviously a spot for a claymore to be or that something would be worth checking out) hide your wire via small surface level trench or with more natural camouflages you should remember to also make sure to hide your stakes they don't have to be in the air but rather enough to anchor it to the ground with out tipping over your device. find or make a cover spot with in the ambush side (think foxhole for open ground with a "roof" even if its more a place for you and your battle buddy to lay in preferably making an L shaped ambush position or behind hard cover like boulder or wall, again use your best judgement). keeping these things in mind will be helpful for you and your squad mates to successfully utilize the M18 claymore in an ambush and give you and your squad mates the first strike capability to win your ambush.
Happy hunting.
Did a claymore blew out your "comma" key?
@@Dimapur oh no minor grammatical error
wow. don't wanna play you pvp. you read the fucking label. that's me ☠😂
@@billynomates920 nah i was taught. never used em but still got taught.
Putting an awful lot of thought into a simple task. Also, who the hell would want to go down range, likely leaving the area you are defending ( which has cover ) to go 20 meters IN FRONT of the claymore and likely also now in front of expected enemies lol... Idc if it hasn't been primed yet, don't think you'd have the time in a quick defensive setup for such things nor someone dumb enough to do that. Slight concealment is just fine without double-checking if they can see it or not.
I carried 4 in my rucksack at all times, one doesn't want to walk into the killing zone , you will look like swiss cheese
This weapon is pure heck. 😢
Edit: old PRC-77 radio freqs could set off the blasting cap. 😉
So could walking under a 100Kv mains power line
Now I’ve forgotten my credit card PIN number. Learn something new, forget something important.
You forgot the number 1 rule. Always inspect your equipment before you deploy
Rule #2. Test your equipment before you deploy.
Rule #3. Make sure you don't die
FRIGGIN loved those!
We never saw ,much less had a test set . We carried a couple of klackers ,multiple claymores ,extra wires and caps . Spot of reflectin paint on back that would show up w/ night vision .
Need a film of the live fire, bro. That supersonic SHIIEEEKKK is terrifying.
NOT how I was trained, but things change, it was 34 years ago.
this is youtube - I would re-calibrate :)
Ditto that. I recall having to click the trigger 3 times to detonate. I don't know if this changed or if my memory from 30+ years ago is faulty (very likely the latter, lol).
Ink pen sight?
They didn’t teach us this in Call Of Duty 😂
The best thing to do was to stick a few of these along a narrow jungle pass, detonate them simultaneously, and when the enemy dives into the nearest ditch, another set strategically positioned will take out more of the enemy. You could dispatch three quarters of a platoon in one fell swoop in quick succession.
@@duffelbagdrag That’s where that tactic comes from, but today’s generation have no familiarity with the lost art form of claymoring the enemy.
We used to play a game called Carwars. My character was named Kamikaze, crowd favorite, and he walked around with a claymore on his chest when he wasn't driving.
Yah, he was totally nuts. 😂
2:14 The reverse thread action is a Claymore secret!
Bro just gave us a casual claymore tutorial
I see the light! I see the light! I see the light! :D Secret Claymore lore there.
Thanks for this tutorial I will try it
75 yards forward, 65 yards backwards. I see the light drill sgt!
Our Drill Instructors detonated one for us in Basic training. They make a little mushroom cloud with a deafening roar.
Can dig you a nice fox hole to hide in as well.
Great video and presentation.
In the movies they wear it on their chest and lift the shirt and it explodes lol
How does it work? Beautifully well. Bit noisy though.
Instructions unclear squad members turned to jelly
Who all said, I see the light, I see the light ,I see the light.
0:21
now i understand the scene from NOBODY
I was taught to depress the trigger 3 times.
I was watching how car brakes work, UA-cam suggested to watch how claymore works, watching claymore now 😂
I Like it when the antihero in movies carring one on their frontal armor…i never saw one connecting the trigger and Tester in the Final Battle seconds lmfao…
my buddy was in the army.he would get some bondo put in the claymore and some more shrapnel like old brass casings. he said he said hit one enemy in the eye with and old casing and laughed. so did I . He did say the blow back was a little more pronounced .