How M18A1 CLAYMORE Works

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 28 гру 2024

КОМЕНТАРІ • 956

  • @THEHOLYKIIDD
    @THEHOLYKIIDD Рік тому +753

    The Claymore saved me during my tour of MW2 and my second deployment during Black Ops 1

    • @nbaWrld96
      @nbaWrld96 Рік тому +45

      Many successful camping matches thanks to the claymore

    • @d.b.1176
      @d.b.1176 Рік тому +49

      Thank you for your cervix 🫡

    • @REV-1
      @REV-1 9 місяців тому +7

      😮woah
      Damn dude, I heard that was some heavy shit!

    • @georgejenkins7763
      @georgejenkins7763 9 місяців тому +1

      Good one!

    • @BvckGames
      @BvckGames 9 місяців тому

      @@d.b.1176lmao

  • @HKiller45ACP
    @HKiller45ACP 8 місяців тому +594

    Craziest thing I've learned today, Claymores have iron sights.

    • @toryknotts8026
      @toryknotts8026 8 місяців тому +17

      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"

    • @provocatrix1455
      @provocatrix1455 6 місяців тому +20

      Mine has an ACOG for better accuracy

    • @geoffmcnew5863
      @geoffmcnew5863 6 місяців тому

      You can use a popsickle stick to extend the "sight radius", too! SPEARHEAD!!!

    • @TheRoyalWe762
      @TheRoyalWe762 5 місяців тому +1

      yours.... doesn't?

    • @droid16beta97
      @droid16beta97 5 місяців тому +2

      ​@@TheRoyalWe762 they probably knew Claymores from video-games, where they don't have sights.

  • @markh.6687
    @markh.6687 9 місяців тому +58

    Yes, "Front Toward Enemy" is very important.

  • @iltifaat-yousuf
    @iltifaat-yousuf Рік тому +165

    Very helpful, i'll keep this in mind when im installing M18A1 CLAYMORE in my backyard.

  • @Shadows_101
    @Shadows_101 Рік тому +244

    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 :)

    • @damienkramer
      @damienkramer Рік тому +20

      I thought that as I watched it

    • @SethiozProject
      @SethiozProject Рік тому +8

      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)

    • @jeffreydavidconner
      @jeffreydavidconner Рік тому +6

      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.

    • @joskevermeulen9275
      @joskevermeulen9275 Рік тому +8

      @@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.

    • @ojpaige3873
      @ojpaige3873 Рік тому +5

      Damn good 👍 weapon I trained with it in boot 👢 camp 🏕 in 1979 fort Leonardwood Missouri

  • @MALITH666
    @MALITH666 Рік тому +892

    Now you too can ambush your milk man with a cleverly laid M18A1 Claymore. Knowledge is power.

    • @Wurstbrot5555
      @Wurstbrot5555 Рік тому +12

      Not funny

    • @mappam3160
      @mappam3160 Рік тому +48

      Na it's comedic gold

    • @johnstitt2615
      @johnstitt2615 Рік тому

      @@Wurstbrot5555 no sense of humour. Stick in the mud.

    • @johnstitt2615
      @johnstitt2615 Рік тому +2

      @GangBalls69_Estonia lolol

    • @DANGVINH17
      @DANGVINH17 Рік тому +13

      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?

  • @0159ralph
    @0159ralph Рік тому +365

    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

    • @soldtobediers
      @soldtobediers Рік тому

      ITISSO!

    • @aresorum
      @aresorum Рік тому +6

      NVA?

    • @roncox5512
      @roncox5512 Рік тому +28

      ​@@aresorum North Vietnamese army

    • @achitophel5852
      @achitophel5852 Рік тому +9

      @@aresorum Are you serious?

    • @Ramzi1944
      @Ramzi1944 Рік тому +13

      @@achitophel5852 There are people who don't know about that stuff, sadly.

  • @aviatorengineer3491
    @aviatorengineer3491 Рік тому +1127

    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.

    • @carlosspeicywiener7018
      @carlosspeicywiener7018 Рік тому +139

      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.

    • @sc0ttishnutj0b75
      @sc0ttishnutj0b75 Рік тому +113

      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

    • @guiseppe46
      @guiseppe46 Рік тому

      @@sc0ttishnutj0b75 First time i threw a hand grenade, reality hit my young man ego. You can really get killed with this stuff. Hahahhahha

    • @KwadDamyj
      @KwadDamyj Рік тому +17

      Even rarer that it's wire-operated instead of a radio clacker.

    • @ThePackageLives
      @ThePackageLives Рік тому +35

      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.

  • @ayowhatdadogdoin8619
    @ayowhatdadogdoin8619 Рік тому +365

    'To install claymore, spread out your legs" 💀💀💀💀

    • @oBuLLzEyEo1013
      @oBuLLzEyEo1013 8 місяців тому +5

      First...

    • @syos1979
      @syos1979 7 місяців тому +9

      Okay, now what?

    • @SomberEngage
      @SomberEngage 7 місяців тому +22

      At least ask me out to dinner first. Sheeeeesh. 😂

    • @SenKitsune-san
      @SenKitsune-san 4 місяці тому +6

      Instructions unclear, and now my bum hurts

    • @keydellhost
      @keydellhost 4 місяці тому +2

      Yeah I thought I heard that too😂

  • @shootfirst2097
    @shootfirst2097 Рік тому +62

    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?

    • @tacticalmattfoley
      @tacticalmattfoley Рік тому +8

      NO....safety LAST!!!

    • @castleanthrax1833
      @castleanthrax1833 Рік тому +7

      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.

    • @shootfirst2097
      @shootfirst2097 Рік тому +3

      @@castleanthrax1833 That makes sense as I've read that a close lightning strike can cause a claymore to cook off.

    • @OverTheVoids
      @OverTheVoids Рік тому +1

      @@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.

    • @chetmanley220
      @chetmanley220 11 місяців тому +1

      @@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.

  • @dmasamitsu7720
    @dmasamitsu7720 Рік тому +67

    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.

    • @johnslugger
      @johnslugger Рік тому +8

      In NAM we always had to slap the trigger 2 or 3 times in quick succession??? Are newer Clays different????

    • @dmasamitsu7720
      @dmasamitsu7720 Рік тому +6

      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.

    • @dmasamitsu7720
      @dmasamitsu7720 Рік тому

      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).

    • @combativeThinker
      @combativeThinker Рік тому +5

      @@dmasamitsu7720
      It’s useful knowledge when we the people finally decide to abolish this corrupt government.

    • @timgannon2993
      @timgannon2993 11 місяців тому +5

      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.

  • @fratercontenduntocculta8161
    @fratercontenduntocculta8161 Рік тому +174

    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
      @davidorth4906 Рік тому +4

      Ok, mine has a Green handle...good for torture of Pow's.

    • @unitedstatesirie7431
      @unitedstatesirie7431 Рік тому

      ​​@@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 ?

    • @QuantumMechanic_88
      @QuantumMechanic_88 Рік тому +6

      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

    • @RobARug
      @RobARug Рік тому +2

      @@davidorth4906 Field phones, too.

    • @paulredinger5830
      @paulredinger5830 Рік тому +2

      They can take out more then 12 guys. They’re vicious little things!!!!

  • @bluesdawg8014
    @bluesdawg8014 Рік тому +31

    These do a great job. US Vietnam Veteran 69-71

  • @donnienicholson6062
    @donnienicholson6062 Рік тому +144

    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???

    • @maxwedge5683
      @maxwedge5683 Рік тому +13

      Thanks Donnie... I hope your life has been great since you left 'Nam. You surely deserve it.

    • @1Builtcummins
      @1Builtcummins Рік тому +5

      Thank you for your service Donnie

    • @josephastier7421
      @josephastier7421 Рік тому +4

      They use thermite grenades to destroy equipment. WP has other uses.

    • @sdimartino
      @sdimartino Рік тому +3

      And yet people keep voting democrat.

    • @PaulTippit-kn1fj
      @PaulTippit-kn1fj Рік тому +2

      Depends on who they decide the enemy is this month.

  • @wnose
    @wnose 9 місяців тому +10

    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.

  • @steve4158
    @steve4158 Рік тому +38

    Trivia: C4 simply means "Composition 4." As this explosive material was developed, it was improved from C2 to C3 to what is now C4.

    • @jakhamar55
      @jakhamar55 Рік тому

      Alrighty then

    • @kaelevi7701
      @kaelevi7701 11 місяців тому +4

      C5 when

    • @Cache-Money-Sectors
      @Cache-Money-Sectors 11 місяців тому +9

      @@kaelevi7701 Usually when you're playing the Sicilian Defense.

    • @bar8393gm
      @bar8393gm 9 місяців тому +4

      Same with WD-40. “water displacement formula #40. “

    • @sachmo0196
      @sachmo0196 9 місяців тому

      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.

  • @sunsetarts
    @sunsetarts Рік тому +57

    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.

  • @michaelmorrison4201
    @michaelmorrison4201 Рік тому +64

    The "back" side is a common misconception. That shit is lethal in ALL directions!

    • @bluedistortions
      @bluedistortions 9 місяців тому +7

      So making ERA panels out of this for my level IIa body armor is a bad idea?

    • @codaalive5076
      @codaalive5076 7 місяців тому

      They just found out this in Ukrainia where they are mining border with Romania to prevent citizens escaping from the country. The results are unknown for now, i hope all will fail 100%.

    • @Awesomes007
      @Awesomes007 6 місяців тому

      That’s what led me here. Physics tells me it can only hit as hard forward as it hits backward. I bet there are pretty clever tricks to make much more deadly in one direction.

    • @Reaver3214
      @Reaver3214 5 місяців тому

      @@codaalive5076 da comrade russokovich bot, we will beat ukraina and get our lada xaxaxa

  • @donnienicholson6062
    @donnienicholson6062 Рік тому +68

    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.

    • @BeyondEcstasy
      @BeyondEcstasy Рік тому +3

      Who's the bad guys

    • @derdefr
      @derdefr Рік тому +15

      @@BeyondEcstasy humans

    • @DidymusAldus
      @DidymusAldus Рік тому

      ​@@BeyondEcstasyspace ISIS

    • @Player-rv8ph
      @Player-rv8ph Рік тому

      ​@@BeyondEcstasy Invaders /people who do illegal stuff that harm others

    • @tomhenry897
      @tomhenry897 Рік тому

      Never heard that
      In training told troops would put them in backwards

  • @texbrazos31
    @texbrazos31 10 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @terrydouglas5008
    @terrydouglas5008 Рік тому +12

    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.

  • @fredrickmillstead2804
    @fredrickmillstead2804 9 місяців тому +4

    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.

  • @glynnburchett5554
    @glynnburchett5554 9 місяців тому +2

    They still use claymores, I remember them well , this is from my generation

  • @jvalentine8376
    @jvalentine8376 Рік тому +133

    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 .

    • @sunsetarts
      @sunsetarts Рік тому +18

      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.

    • @flying_Night_slasher
      @flying_Night_slasher Рік тому +5

      ​@@sunsetarts imagine if lumberjack's began using claymore's instead of axe's or saw's

    • @guynemer53
      @guynemer53 Рік тому +1

      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.

    • @I-wont-read-your-replies
      @I-wont-read-your-replies Рік тому

      Glad I knew that before grandpa came home 😐

    • @kyripa777
      @kyripa777 Рік тому

      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.

  • @josemoreno3334
    @josemoreno3334 2 місяці тому +1

    My Brother told me they used them in Vietnam back in 1971-72. He said it saved him and buddy's lives a few time's when the VC was trying to overrun there base camp. He was with the 1st.Cav.Div.

  • @galesams4205
    @galesams4205 Рік тому +25

    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.

    • @johnslugger
      @johnslugger Рік тому

      In NAM we always had to slap the trigger 2 or 3 times in quick succession??? Are newer Clays different????

    • @rodhowaboutthat4468
      @rodhowaboutthat4468 Рік тому +2

      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.

    • @M60gunner1971
      @M60gunner1971 Рік тому +1

      Daisy chain

    • @sunsetarts
      @sunsetarts Рік тому +1

      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.

    • @monkemode8128
      @monkemode8128 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@sunsetartsthat is so cool

  • @philsmycrevice
    @philsmycrevice 11 місяців тому +2

    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.

  • @MrMarkRoads
    @MrMarkRoads Рік тому +3

    :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.

  • @miketacos9034
    @miketacos9034 4 дні тому +1

    Imagine being a soldier and watching this video in the middle of a battle cuz you forgot how to set it up

  • @jpcaretta8847
    @jpcaretta8847 Рік тому +3

    Thanks ! I just got my Claymores from Aliexpress and the instructions are in chinese !!! Time to have some fun.

  • @galegreyson4196
    @galegreyson4196 Рік тому +9

    Better training than we got in the army.

  • @elicha12
    @elicha12 Рік тому +6

    thank you for the detailed instructions, now I know how to use claymore properly :)

  • @daddyrabbit835
    @daddyrabbit835 Рік тому +13

    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.

  • @eldonstrackeii7892
    @eldonstrackeii7892 9 місяців тому +3

    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.

  • @denimjeanz916
    @denimjeanz916 9 місяців тому +1

    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.

  • @TheMichaelBeck
    @TheMichaelBeck Рік тому +19

    "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.

    • @brad506th
      @brad506th Рік тому

      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. 😂😂😂

    • @sammyhooligan803
      @sammyhooligan803 9 місяців тому +1

      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.

    • @TheMichaelBeck
      @TheMichaelBeck 9 місяців тому +1

      @@sammyhooligan803 Me too. Great memories. Thanks for your service and sacrifice, brother! Cheers!

    • @sammyhooligan803
      @sammyhooligan803 9 місяців тому +1

      @@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, 👍

    • @TheMichaelBeck
      @TheMichaelBeck 9 місяців тому +1

      @@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. 😁

  • @puravida5683
    @puravida5683 9 місяців тому +1

    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!

  • @davidorth4906
    @davidorth4906 Рік тому +13

    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.

    • @vincepurpura8905
      @vincepurpura8905 Рік тому

      You can do that with any mine. I was a 12 Bravo, (combat engineer) we did that all the time.

  • @harry2928
    @harry2928 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @alaric_
    @alaric_ Рік тому +14

    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.

  • @ManinTidyWhities
    @ManinTidyWhities 9 місяців тому +1

    The back side also has a warning label to tell you not to eat it, as if there are actual reports of people eating the contents of the mine

  • @Skilpadjie1
    @Skilpadjie1 Рік тому +3

    Thanks for instructional video. I just ordered 6 on amazon.

    • @bills6946
      @bills6946 2 місяці тому

      6 gets you same day delivery

  • @peterparquer1873
    @peterparquer1873 2 місяці тому +1

    There was this one comic book issue, where the Punisher got Spider-Man to follow him into an abandoned apartment (after he first got Wolverine and Daredevil to fight each other). As soon as Spidey entered the apartment, he stepped on a pressure pad somehow hooked up to several Claymores all pointed towards him. Punisher gave him a choice, to try to stop him and risk being blown to pieces (Punisher let him know that it'd be like stepping into a large blender) or let him finish his mission. The man has amazing tactical strategies, despite having no superpowers....💪

  • @rhuttrho88
    @rhuttrho88 Місяць тому +2

    4:02 "I see the light! Safety!"🤗

  • @jimi71smw
    @jimi71smw Рік тому +3

    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

    • @okforsureguy6668
      @okforsureguy6668 10 місяців тому +1

      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

  • @MKmod-hp3lw
    @MKmod-hp3lw 11 місяців тому +2

    Vietnam was crazy with these everywere..geez

  • @MattCantSpeakIt
    @MattCantSpeakIt Рік тому +4

    Thanks for this video! I have setup 7 of these around my house.

  • @josephpacchetti5997
    @josephpacchetti5997 Рік тому +2

    Comprehensive Description of the M18A1. THX Subbed. 🇺🇸

  • @johnstitt2615
    @johnstitt2615 Рік тому +10

    I was always curious. Definitely an anti-personnel weapon. A good morning coffee watch.

  • @oldschoolfoil2365
    @oldschoolfoil2365 Рік тому +1

    he missed the shipping well. only mentioned the shipping plug. the clacker is the m57 and the test box is the m48

  • @sydneysheppard4979
    @sydneysheppard4979 Рік тому +4

    Awesome weapon!! I was in us army for 12yrs..I hung claymore from trees..and other available stuff..just like the law rocket..you need to know how to site it..the laws easy..just Crack it open..popp the sight up line up your hit an sqeeze!! I was in in the 80s an 90s...the basic army recruit has a shit ton of stuff to play with...everything's better today!! Pray for Israel ❤🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇦💪😎

  • @erbenton07
    @erbenton07 11 місяців тому +1

    I was hoping you'd go over how the claymore was setup using a trip wire

  • @55Vega55
    @55Vega55 Рік тому +18

    Now I know how to set up claymore mine. Not sure what to do with this knowledge, but hey!

  • @wahiawamang6622
    @wahiawamang6622 Рік тому +1

    Back in the eighties we would daisy chain several for maximum effect. Good fun

  • @homernewman8478
    @homernewman8478 Рік тому +3

    Proficient, Intelligible, good quality work.

  • @JugglesGrenades
    @JugglesGrenades Місяць тому

    The claymore is one of the best "force multipliers" ever invented.

  • @PlutoTheSynth
    @PlutoTheSynth Рік тому +5

    0:56 Uhhh.... do i have to?? Weird requirement

  • @michaelbyrne8860
    @michaelbyrne8860 11 місяців тому +2

    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!

  • @titustitus7105
    @titustitus7105 11 місяців тому +4

    While I was in Cambodia we would set these mines on the trail and set up our NDP night defense position. As soon as it got dark we could hear the mine go off. I still remember the short lived screams that followed.

  • @michaeldinardo2519
    @michaeldinardo2519 4 місяці тому

    Notice there are two fuse wells. You can daisy chain the mines so one squeeze of the magneto will set off multiple mines at once. Turning them into a mechanical ambush was another technique we were taught to protect our M109 Howitzers. Each Howitzer had a 50cal on it and so did each M548 ammo carrier. That's 16 50's per battery. If a mine was tripped the whole mother fookin battery would react. 50's, , M16/M203's, M60's,shotguns,handguns of all types, BB guns and even a bow and arrow for good measure. And then there were beehive rounds in the gun tubes.Nobody survives that.

  • @RobertEskuri
    @RobertEskuri Рік тому +3

    Our Drill Instructors detonated one for us in Basic training. They make a little mushroom cloud with a deafening roar.

    • @robertsmith2956
      @robertsmith2956 Рік тому

      Can dig you a nice fox hole to hide in as well.

  • @Omicron9999
    @Omicron9999 9 місяців тому

    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.

  • @michaelpalm6925
    @michaelpalm6925 Рік тому +3

    Impressive! Very well thought out concept.

  • @daniellabra4186
    @daniellabra4186 Рік тому +1

    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.

  • @peterfrazer1943
    @peterfrazer1943 Рік тому +35

    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
      @heristyono4755 Рік тому +5

      I live in Borneo, what did you do here?

    • @xaxaszaposznikow175
      @xaxaszaposznikow175 Рік тому +5

      Nothing...just playin with claymores

    • @MrLince-hr4of
      @MrLince-hr4of Рік тому

      @@xaxaszaposznikow175 yes yes the good old days 😂

    • @peterfrazer1943
      @peterfrazer1943 Рік тому +13

      @@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.

    • @heristyono4755
      @heristyono4755 Рік тому +5

      @@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.

  • @lindsayheyes925
    @lindsayheyes925 9 місяців тому +2

    How does it work? Beautifully well. Bit noisy though.

  • @paulredinger5830
    @paulredinger5830 Рік тому +9

    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.

    • @josephastier7421
      @josephastier7421 Рік тому +1

      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.

    • @wuuht
      @wuuht Рік тому +2

      'unalive' what is this newspeak??

    • @combativeThinker
      @combativeThinker Рік тому +2

      @@wuuht
      UA-cam censors comments. This is a way around it.

  • @dmitrypalaev3323
    @dmitrypalaev3323 Рік тому +2

    Do they have a wireless version or at least USB-C ? It looks outdated and not eco friendly.

  • @Dimaz42
    @Dimaz42 Рік тому +28

    imagine after setting this up, the enemies come from other directions 😁

    • @mofleh177
      @mofleh177 Рік тому +5

      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💥

    • @ericferguson9989
      @ericferguson9989 Рік тому +4

      That's why you always post security when setting ambushes ( or so I've read, anyways)

    • @xFuaZe
      @xFuaZe Рік тому +2

      That's why you put two back-to-back :D

    • @RexHill-yn6os
      @RexHill-yn6os Рік тому +2

      That's when you have more than one mine,plus a M-60 machine gun will end the threat.

    • @combativeThinker
      @combativeThinker Рік тому

      The claymore’s back-blast is just as deadly.

  • @sluggotinfantryman
    @sluggotinfantryman 25 днів тому

    We put out multiple mines once. My claymore didn't fire. We had set them out for counterattack defense. Fired FPF final protective fire. Sergeant laid down where I had been prone. I had shot right through the wire. It was held up six inch by grass.

  • @styrishrodrigues
    @styrishrodrigues Рік тому +4

    You earned a sub.. Keep up these amazing videos ❤

  • @horrgakx
    @horrgakx Рік тому +2

    2:14 not being picky, but the plug rotates in the opposite direction to the thread.

  • @Maine307
    @Maine307 Рік тому +6

    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.

    • @bills6946
      @bills6946 2 місяці тому +1

      Did he get all the wolves? Naaaaa

  • @Sparky-ov1ot
    @Sparky-ov1ot 11 місяців тому +1

    "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!

  • @Dimaz42
    @Dimaz42 Рік тому +82

    I thought claymore was triggered by the enemies like other conventional mines 😅

    • @alifr4088
      @alifr4088 Рік тому +10

      Apparently that is banned by the ottawa treaty

    • @Dimaz42
      @Dimaz42 Рік тому +10

      @@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

    • @mustafaal-ghezi1757
      @mustafaal-ghezi1757 Рік тому +31

      @@Dimaz42 cuz kids and innocent civilians can get hurt by undetonated mines

    • @Dimaz42
      @Dimaz42 Рік тому +16

      @@mustafaal-ghezi1757 I see.. so it's not about hurting the combatants, but the aftermath with the civilians

    • @alifr4088
      @alifr4088 Рік тому +5

      @@Dimaz42 yep that sums it up

  • @skorpio156
    @skorpio156 2 місяці тому

    As an 11B , Combat Veteran. i rember being trained how to set this weapon, and use it.
    A devastating weapon, and remember to ALWAYS read the weapons instructions

  • @SSGTWinters
    @SSGTWinters Рік тому +14

    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.

    • @Dimapur
      @Dimapur Рік тому +2

      Did a claymore blew out your "comma" key?

    • @SSGTWinters
      @SSGTWinters Рік тому +1

      @@Dimapur oh no minor grammatical error

    • @billynomates920
      @billynomates920 Рік тому

      wow. don't wanna play you pvp. you read the fucking label. that's me ☠😂

    • @SSGTWinters
      @SSGTWinters Рік тому +3

      @@billynomates920 nah i was taught. never used em but still got taught.

    • @Kyle_Pizza
      @Kyle_Pizza Рік тому

      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.

  • @user-hh4hc2lt6e
    @user-hh4hc2lt6e 7 місяців тому

    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 😂😂

  • @M60gunner1971
    @M60gunner1971 Рік тому +4

    This weapon is pure heck. 😢
    Edit: old PRC-77 radio freqs could set off the blasting cap. 😉

    • @hurstbill
      @hurstbill Рік тому +2

      So could walking under a 100Kv mains power line

  • @Heinz916
    @Heinz916 Рік тому

    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.

  • @TheTeaParty320
    @TheTeaParty320 Рік тому +8

    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.

    • @TheTeaParty320
      @TheTeaParty320 Рік тому +2

      @@duffelbagdrag That’s where that tactic comes from, but today’s generation have no familiarity with the lost art form of claymoring the enemy.

    • @grantmo821
      @grantmo821 2 місяці тому +1

      In the book "The Green Berets" by Robin Moore, they used that same tactic on ambushes, but instead of using Claymores, they used det-cord, hidden deep in the grass, or under a scattering of mud or dirt. In a small ditch, they laid a zig-zag or a series of loops along the bottom. But on deep ditches with a gentle slope along the roadway, they laid a line of it about three or four feet down from the edge, so when they crawled up to the edge to return fire across the road, they would all be laying prone on top of it. The way they describe body parts being blown out of the ditch, I'd say it was pretty effective.

    • @TheTeaParty320
      @TheTeaParty320 2 місяці тому

      @@grantmo821 I heard of these being used, but never used them myself.

    • @grantmo821
      @grantmo821 2 місяці тому

      @@TheTeaParty320, the books events were 50+ years ago, & by Special Forces training natives to be insurgents, a pretty unique situation. Ever since, det-cord is pretty much used only by demo. experts & engineers.

  • @EATSLEEPDRIVE2002
    @EATSLEEPDRIVE2002 6 місяців тому

    I love how there's a sight/aiming procedure for basically a bomb

    • @geoffmcnew5863
      @geoffmcnew5863 6 місяців тому

      No, it works = it's a directional bomb, as advertised

  • @essexfarmer9610
    @essexfarmer9610 5 місяців тому

    I worked for a Rhodesian tobacco farmer that had these installed just outside his live mains voltage electric security fence during the Bush war. They had a cabinet on the bathroom wall which had a map and a series of handles so they could be deployed against an attacking terrorist force. Back when men were men.

  • @randybrown140
    @randybrown140 Рік тому +8

    NOT how I was trained, but things change, it was 34 years ago.

    • @myparadiseing
      @myparadiseing Рік тому

      this is youtube - I would re-calibrate :)

    • @erikpitman6748
      @erikpitman6748 Рік тому +1

      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).

    • @sirtango1
      @sirtango1 Рік тому

      Ink pen sight?

  • @Brees1986
    @Brees1986 Рік тому +1

    At 4:14, shouldn’t your animation show the clacker being returned to “Safe” condition before connecting the firing wire?

  • @SethiozProject
    @SethiozProject Рік тому +6

    i always thought claymores have some sort of motion detector or tripwre that makes it explode when enemy gets near.
    also don't forget to raise the trigger before removing the test device!

    • @kennyzaragoza1409
      @kennyzaragoza1409 Рік тому +3

      Same. Dammit metal gear

    • @utube1818
      @utube1818 Рік тому +1

      @@kennyzaragoza1409 As well as every war film and stargate episode ever made.

    • @slayer8actual
      @slayer8actual Рік тому +8

      Claymores can be rigged to detonate with motion detectors and tripwires as well, but those types of initiators are not included in the basic kit. They can also be detonated with pressure plates, daisy chained, and other types of victim initiations such as simply opening a door. They can also be command detonated the radio or telephone signals if set up properly.

    • @actomobile
      @actomobile Рік тому +5

      ​@@slayer8actual basically any mechanism that can detonate the blasting cap then

    • @combativeThinker
      @combativeThinker Рік тому

      They can easily be rigged with one.

  • @chilly3125
    @chilly3125 10 місяців тому

    It's sounds funny because claymore is a double edge sword that was used in Scotland, based on that this device should be popping in two directions

  • @cavreaver
    @cavreaver Рік тому +3

    You forgot the number 1 rule. Always inspect your equipment before you deploy

  • @aragorn767
    @aragorn767 8 місяців тому +1

    The script was written by a 3rd grader with a scarily deep knowledge of explosives.

  • @ScarlettFire341
    @ScarlettFire341 Рік тому +4

    Thank You ALL for your Service , and may God Bless you all.

  • @xx3868
    @xx3868 Рік тому +1

    3V only?? i thought the plastic needed quite a energy strike to set it off, so handing it poorly or dropping it cant explode it.

  • @lil----lil
    @lil----lil Рік тому +2

    Claymore! Claymore! Claymore! Three words you must utter to pass Basic Training. For those of you still remember it! Good Times!

  • @HHSTT
    @HHSTT Рік тому +5

    I use it in Critical Strike every day. ❤️ Superb thing.

  • @johnslugger
    @johnslugger Рік тому +1

    *In NAM we always had to slap the trigger 2 or 3 times in quick succession??? Are newer Clays different????*

  • @snnrslnx
    @snnrslnx Рік тому +4

    I thought its trigger mechanism was laser

  • @taiyoctopus2958
    @taiyoctopus2958 Рік тому +2

    test plug is kind of interesting... Would be neat to understand how the test plug tests the system exactly.
    either way cool video.

    • @fredrickmillstead2804
      @fredrickmillstead2804 9 місяців тому +1

      The test plug just reads the voltage provided. If the led illuminates then the trigger device is good to go.

  • @robertwallace7315
    @robertwallace7315 11 місяців тому +1

    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

  • @kokomokid4006
    @kokomokid4006 Рік тому +1

    Wana lite the nite up...put a 55gal drum of mogas on top of 4 claymores...then put a case of parachute flares on top of the drum...

  • @NathanShantz
    @NathanShantz 11 місяців тому +2

    Well this video would have been helpful 2 months ago. RIP Carl 😢. Very good tutorial though!👍 I will look for the Front Toward Enemy next time!

    • @ndschwartz
      @ndschwartz 9 місяців тому +1

      Very few comments have made me laugh as hard as this one did. Condolences on the loss of Carl.

    • @NathanShantz
      @NathanShantz 9 місяців тому

      @@ndschwartz thank you for your condolences! Lol

  • @davisray
    @davisray 9 місяців тому +1

    Where can I buy this? Is it have colors variation? Does it have Store guaranteed, if it failed to explode?

    • @tomcat6735
      @tomcat6735 8 місяців тому +1

      Only at the CIA special sale locations and membership required.