Claymore DESTRUCTION in Super Slow Mo! - Ballistic High-Speed
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I was a combat medic with three tours down range. That last dummy would have died. You would need a surgical suite to repair any of that thoracic trauma. All it would take is one of those balls to nick the aorta or any of the major vessels in the thoracic cavity, and they would bleed out before we could even think to get them stabilized. There is also the concussive force from the blast and what it would do to the brain. Even if it did survive the damage to his chest. It may have brain damage.
Prior service medic here, completely agree. Even if that happened to him on a surgeon's table, he's not looking at great odds.
I concur, bleeding out and bilateral tension pneumothorax...this would have been a challenge. You also said balls...
Did you just refer to a hypothatical patient as "it" ?
Thank all of you for your service!
@@danielwestphal2704 You're welcome
I was a Marine infantry platoon commander in Vietnam from December 1968 to December 1969. My squads all and claymores to setup when we were in defensive positions, usually at night.
I can verify what a claymore will do to a human. However, every weapon can utterly destroy the human body. We operated at times in an area where mines and boobytraps were the major cause of killed and wound in my platoon. Our gear was pretty primative compared to what they have today.
Our 782 gear was from WW II and Korean War. For navigation I only had out of date French maps at 1:50,000 and a compass. Features on the map didn't match features on the ground so I was lucky to know where I was within a kilometer in open terrain and only when I thought I was a mountain top when operating in the mountains. Some areas we operated in were so thick you see no more than 5-10 feet in any direction, making control of the platoon difficult. When I first arrived there was only one radio for the platoon, but later we had 2-3 radios depending how many were working. I had one 1st generation starlight scope in the platoon, but we could never get batteries for it. We'd be in the field for 30-60 days at a time and rotate to the battalion (in the middle of nowhere) for 3 days of rest, a cold shower, and some hot chow. When in the field, there was no potable water except if my platoon was assigned to defend a bridge for a week and we had a water buffalo, otherwise we filled canteens with whatever water was locally available like an old well, a stream, rain water (the best), and put 3-4 water purification tables in the canteens in hopes it would kill any critters. C-Rations were from the Korean War era and tasted awful except for the beef steaks and the turkey loaf. We used to joke that there was so much preservatives in the C-Rats that they didn't have to bother embalming use if we got killed.
It was stinking hot in the dry season and never stopped raining during the monsoon. Ponchos were useless during the monsoon as it was impossible to keep dry and uniforms would literally rot off. We learned just to lay down in the mud an fall asleep outside of the foxhole because the foxhole would fill up with water.
Lost a lot of Marines killed and wounded from mines, boobytraps, enemy contact, accidents, friendly fire, and disease. Diarrhea, ring worm, and leeches were common. When I came home, I was mentally and physically exhausted and 20 pounds lighter.
Resupply could be unreliable due to the enemy threat, weather, and terrain and since ammo was more important than food, one C-Ration had to last 2-3 days. Besides, they were heavy and took up too much space in the haversack we had as backpacks. Everyone, including me, carried a 60 mm mortar round, a LAW, and extra machinegun ammo in addition to our own combat load.
I'm 77 now and I still compare all the things that have gone wrong in my life to Vietnam and then they don't seem so bad.
While that was 54 years ago, I thought back then that those memories would eventually fade. While some have, most have not.
Thanks for sharing and big respect from the UK !
As a Healthcare worker for the VA I am very proud to take care of veterans like you everyday. Welcome home Marine.
Thank you for sharing your story Sir, always an honor to hear from a Vietnam veteran.
Welcome home pops
Thanks for sharing. My grandfather flew Puff in Vietnam. Rarely talked about it, but I appreciate the few times he did.
Is it safe to assume that we're gonna get a super slow motion of a thermobaric bomb explosion against a ballistic gel torso?
That would be awesome. Easiest way is to use 75% ammonium nitrate and 25% aluminum with a booster charge.
or a gravity bomb!
But not in open space only...
.. fuck it. Why not make a gel mold of Earth.. set up some high-speed camera on a satellite. And let the nukes fly.
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252shhhhh
If you ever get another claymore, have the ballistic targets a bit further away, at the correct height to account for legs and angle the claymore slightly downwards (like a couple degrees max).
The fragmentation will have a more effective spread at a more realistic contact distance and when they explode they tend to kick everything upwards. The initial downward tilt will compensate allowing the fragmentation to hit the sweet spot.
Source: I've set off a fair few of them.
AIRBORNE!😈😎
Use two or three with interlocking arcs.
I have a question. The back blast is nuts how the hell do you set this up so friendly fire doesn’t happen??
I think a properly set claymore will still have just the same result. The Legs would be blown off. A BB to the Femoral artery will make them bleed out in seconds. By the time their brain will react to the concussive effects they most likely wouldn’t be alive when it’s time for the tourniquet.
@@norecordingsoftware3309you don’t use these quite like call of duty, placin it right behind you and posting up is a bad idea
From a combat veteran who is actually witnessed the Claymore live, I would love to say this thing is way too close to the dummies, you should have set it up at least three times as far to get the best effectiveness of the Claymore and the spread of the ball bearings inside of it.
STILL FREAKING AWESOME
i've caught combat-tales of using a half-dozen claymores at that range. now, i guess it was for the 'spread'.
I didn’t even think of that! They were saying that first pellet in frame was moving at 3400 fps, so it would retain a lethal amount of energy for a couple hundred yards at least. 3400 fps is faster than most hunting cartridges.
I was kind of shocked by how effectively it channeled the dirt and debris from the initial blast toward the target too. Wood and pebbles will fuck you up
@@barrysmith1202 except for the shock value popping it off at 8 feet is a waste of a claymore. Machinegun burst would have the desired effect. at 8'.
@@mariontinsley8646 yeah, i agree; but it was narrow jungle trails only, so was always really close range. so, they put out a det-corded chain of claymores for trail-ambushes, effectively one claymore per body.
@@richardlea818 3400 fps is moving extremely fast, but the ballistic coefficient (projectile's ability to resist drag) for spherical projectiles is horrible, even moving 3400 fps there's no way those little pellets are going to 100 yards on a flat trajectory. Maybe if it was 00 buckshot.
the fact that you guys are not getting millions of views is baffling to me. Hope you get a breakthrough soon and thank you for all the effort you put into these videos.
Not too many people have our good taste in choosing their subjects on YT...
This is one you’d have to search for if you’re not subscribed already. Yt definitely isn’t recommending this stuff in random feeds anymore.
This and slow mo guys are insane to watch.
Something about slow motion destruction is mind blowing.
It showed up in my feed just now. 2 minutes in....I subscribed
Too dangerous. Much like firearms safety videos, the Algo deliberately undershares them.
As someone with no medical training, I can say with certainty that all 3 would be fine
maybe a few bruises..
You're dead wrong
It’ll buff right out
Hydrate and walk it off, chicks dig scars.
Some water, pain killers, and change of socks would make them right as rain for sure.
I was a combat medic in Afghanistan for OP Herrick in 2006. We had a member of our team hit by shrapnel from an unknown type of IED, though I suspect is was some form of MON-50 which is basically a Russian claymore. The casuality had been over 20m (65ft) away from the device, yet he had penetration wounds with entry and clean exits throughout his torso. The speed of these projectiles must have been extreme to penetrate that far. He survived I was later told, mainly because they hit his vest which slowed them considerably (and stopped the majority) and the plate which stopped them, however his lower torso was peppered. His stomach suffered the worst. The hard thing for a medic in this situation is the entry wound is so small and does not bleed very much, it also does not hurt to the patient at first.
The small entry wound coupled with the shock the patient suffers means finding these wounds to apply clotting is extremely difficult.
This was actually quite a rare type of injury at the time thank goodness but it showed the severity of such a device, especially when aimed at a living being. I suspect in the current Ukraine war, the severity of injuries like this is becoming more apparent! I truly hope no one is ever hit by one of these devices. They are indescriminate and ungodly when they inflict damage on a human body.
My grandfather fought in Vietnam and on his death bed he told me and my family some war stories one of his friends stepped on a landmine and it blew off his lower half he bled out in about 2 minutes my grandpa had to leave him because the veit Cong were closing in
He went with 4 of his friends left with one and paralyzed in one leg because he got shot right in the fight and it blew his femur apart
Femur*
@@citrus5984 some military explosive devices were designed just to kill.. and to maximize the amount of casualties.. but then in wars like Vietnam there were other devices designed with the sole purpose and intention to just injure, cripple, and maim the enemy and to cause as much pain and suffering as possible.. like the "bouncing betty" exploding booby traps that would bounce up to the height of a man's groin area before exploding.. and then blow his balls off!
War must have been a living Hell.. especially a war like Vietnam!
@@citrus5984Terrifying. 😢
The ideal range is about 15-30m for best effect. Also, most of your blast effect and shrapnel was wasted as the Claymore was set up incorrectly.
Correct setup is for Claymore to be staked using the folding legs that come with the mine, angled slightly downwards. Your shrapnel will "bounce" up just beyond the angled aiming point and at the 15m + range be quite uniformly dispersed at leg and waist height. There is a detailed scientific explanation for such but I am going on what we were taught and successfully applied in combat.
Way back when I was initially trained with claymores, I was told that within 18 feet the concussive blast was lethal. Even if you were not in the cone of fragments. Might have been worth placing a torso outside the fragmentation cone to see what concussive damage was done.
Too many people don't even think of a shock wave whether its from an explosive device or a supersonic rifle bullet. So they never research real life instances of shock wave killing without a scratch or why such small bullets can wreak flesh damage far beyond bullet size. There's a reason the US Navy did not allow sailors outside the ship when the big guns were firing.
A block of 16penny nails attached with duck tape on the front will go through a steel security door.
The radio controlled system works incredibly well. (Circa 1989) All you have to do is place it, push the arming button,it flashes 3 times to let you know that it is armed.
Sit back about 50yrds and when you see the enemy, smash the remote radio control.
Breaching a door is easy. Place it in front of the door. It will eliminate anyone inside the room. Also, position the nails at a center point and make sure to position the outward 1/3rd's 45degrees out. Thanks!🔥🔥🔥
According to UN blast parameters calculator, a Claymore mine (680 gr C4 filling) will have a +74 kPa overpressure at that distance.
16m, not 18ft.
@@Styrak I misspoke, should have said meters. 50-meter lethal zone to the front and 18 meters around it.
Usually you don't want the enemy to get that close to the claymore you want them a little farther away so the ballbearings have time to spread. But yes they are very distructive.
10% hit probability at 110 yards, 30% probability at 55 yards. Multiple claymores, or anything closer than that, means you can eradicate a football field of enemies pretty easy.
as a medic pointed out, at close ranges they're going to die from the concussive force anyway. I imagine if you put one in a hallway it would be lethal at all distances
Remember in Oliver Stones Platoon, lieutenant reflecting on the craziness of the war says "the VC snuck in their perimeter at night and placed their claymores up in the trees pointing down at them, bad shit"
Sending my condolences to the pallet that was utterly obliterated. Rest In Pieces
Sad more people didn't see the dad joke 😂
Funny!
Combat medic here. I'd say by the time I got to the third guy he would be dead... hes just had too many wounds to his lungs. You bleed out into your pleural space quicker than you think. To top it off I'm willing to bet that one towards the center of his chest would hit his heart... to sum up, if that guy had those injuries and wasnt verbal, he'd be expectant and I'd move on.
And I'm no medic, but it seems likely he would drown in his own blood with that many lung injuries.
I was Army in late 80s and claymore APMs were the scariest thing we dealt with. You learn quick to keep the detonator with you in your pocket while setting them up. Well done gentlemen.
While 18 year old kids are setting a perimeter to protect his platoon.
Fifty years ago I went through 91B Army combat medic training and fortunately did not have to go to Vietnam. Between this video and your C4 video, I am always stunned by how young teenagers can kill others with such efficiency. From a technical perspective this is easy to watch, but as a human being who later was a senior Medical Service Corp Officer who has been through two mass casualty situations this is horrific. I still have nightmares but I lived and saw so many men who did not.
Call me clinically insane but these are always gonna be satisfying to watch
As long as you don't get a chub ur fine
Yeah same. I wonder if it’s weird to enjoy watching these. Like blood and guts just flying and I like watching shootouts too. Is this unusual?
I'm a bit insane, and indeed these were satisfied to watch.
Join the club 😂
Well, it's a strange luxury to have realistic dummies and high-speed cameras. Certain technology allows to see things we naturally would not be able to see or analyze properly. So, to me, it feels good being able to have some "secret" knowledge. I know that sounds corny as hell.. but slow-mo cameras are allowing us to see so much.
The fact you not only have a few different high speed cameras going but the replays and your break downs and replay as you point them out... Phenomenal!!!
(Can we see RPG vs torso: poont blank..IK it wont go boom but still wanna see the carnage the rocket can cause)
It just shoots straight through. Maybe deflects slightly.
Point blank RPG wont explode. Their detonator are designed to have a delay for safety reason. Safety for those who launch them.
@@Kualinar and it shows people don't read my whole comment..
I said I know it won't detonate but still want to see it
(You know..kinda like garand thumb did with a tank round)
@@EnjoyCocaColaLight I'm wondering if it would have a similar effect like garand thumb's point blank tank round lol or maybe like that one scene in black hawk down? Where it just gets embedded and that's it?
@@julian75411the rocket would likely be going fast but not tank round fast. It'll probably go through but it more likely would just leave a hole or stop completely
Would have loved to see it at like 20-25ft distance.
As if it was remotely detonated.
Claymores are remote detonated. The little laser thing is video game magic.
@@deniedapollo633 i know. But back in Vietnam they where often detonated by tripwire.
Yeah, I think all three of those guys would have been in the same grease spot if they had back it up a little bit.
@robertboren981 for sure. Maybe less damage to the middle one but more on the ones on the sides. Claymores and the likes are not designed to be used at such close range. They are an area defence weapon that need a few yards to get full spread. It has a sweet spot where you get enough pellets per square meter/yard to hit as many as possible and do as much damage as possible. I would say 20m/yards is probably about optimal range.
In the video it looked like about 3m/yards... waaaaay to close for maximum effectivity.
I’ve got a video of 4 of these mines connected together with det cord going off, camera was about 25m away.
Claymores have changed over the years , there’s six different types from those with shaped charges to fragmentation ones ( yes they still the ball bearing ) but those small jagged frags are game changing due to the distance they are thrown too . The PIR ones for night use are the ones that give those sneakie night crawlers nightmares.
The fact that he casually is walking and kneeling right in front of a claymore explaining everything definitely has my respect.
As long as there is no basting cap in the claymore is as safe to be around as a loaf of bread.
Idk how y’all did it but you’ve carved a spot out of the guntuber genre that’s unique and interesting. Kudos to you guys
This video and garand thumbs video on drone warfare have really changed guntubing
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It would probably be good to do another test of the Claymore mine, placing it 50-150 ft from the targets. One target at 50 ft, second at 100 ft and last at 150 ft.
In BOTH directions of the blast - we want to see the back blast damage.
@@50buttfishMakes me think of the emergency chest claymores from Edge of Tomorrow (didn't watch the movie but saw that scene). I'd bet you wouldn't be doing to well even if you had the exosuit to absorb the initial shock. 😂
Great video and as a medic i asked myself before you asked "hmmm, what would this look like in real and what would i treat first 🤔". Sometimes I use your videos for medic education in my unit 😅 keep going!
What would you treat first here?
@@commanderwill2248 the steel ball in the brain
@@commanderwill2248 not easy to answer because its not a real body... but after the slowmotion...
M - no massive bleeding at all
A - hold the airway open, maybe with a wendltube or guedl
R - seal all the holes in the chest, mabe with some foil 😅 , but i would guess the blast shredded both lungs... sooo, some extra monaldi action
C - fix all the holes with a lot of bandage... a lot, i would also guess with some woundpacking action...
H - rescue blanket for hypothermia und seal burnings
O - other wounds, probably a lot... in the head...
N - narcotics... s ketamin... a lot...
In the secound round maybe a intravenous access... but thats all from my point 😅
Over all... i bet he is dead... if not one of the pellets sliced a atery or organ... the blast has shredded both lungs and probably the pericardium and only these two injuries are... bad, very bad and not to fix for a medic in the field...
I hope you understood my bad englich 😅😅😅
@@CaptHowdy86Surely H is 'Reattach the head'?
@@commanderwill2248 The recovery logistics.
There's enough damage that these 'subjects' are pretty much all DRT. Maybe the left one has a heartbeat for several more seconds before tamponade shuts that down.
So this is definitely a massive channel in the making. Great work guys!
Would love to see the effects of a torso being hit with Dragons breath shotgun rounds !
You guys have really figured out the golden formula. Explosions + slow mo = awesome. Hope y'all reach a million subs soon. Its not a matter of "if" but "when". Best of luck to you guys
Their videos are getting more expensive and very exciting. Great video. ❤
You guys have given me an entirely new respect for weapons in general. It never occurred to me that a gun could straight-up shatter bones, or the damage that a claymore could do, until you guys came along.
yeah, it's deffinately not like a video game where it take 10 rifle rounds to kill.
my experience is with hunting deer, but a rifle like a .308 is absolutely devastating. I hunt with a 30.06, and my second deer had a fist sized hole on the exit. it shattered a vertebre that it barely touched.
to think that's what they used on people during ww2.
You can see why the politicians stay home when there is a war to fight. They where brave men that walk the jungle with charges like this claymore laying around. Devastatingly effective.
I've worked for certain organizations and you should see the devastating effects of 5.56mm. Sometimes it leaves tiny exit wounds the size of your typical pen, other times it opens up a wound channel the size of your fist. All depends on the tumble. It is inherently an unstable round by design. The true winner is the AK-74 round, the 5.54x39mm. The poison pill. We used the armored penetration variant but the devastating effects of that round are absolutely insane. Also designed to be unstable, it will tear up a wound cavity and exit with a wound channel Sometimes 5 times its size. Brutal bullet.
@clifbradley8903 which bullet did you prefer, the 5.56, or the 5.45x39?
@clifbradley8903 Yes I'd love to get a 5.45 AK, but they are so expensive now and the ammunition is expensive and hard to find.
That was awesome. Cheers guys for real non nerfed footage and real explosions. Looking forward to the next vid.☻
It's pretty cool that I'm not the only medic that's commenting on this 😂 this channel seems like an amazing resource for potential training going forward. Keep up the amazing work guys!
8:02 i love how the lens flare on the right looks like plasma that's expanding and cooling
I've always wanted to see a slow motion claymore detonations...
DID NOT DISAPPOINT.
Not sure if it was just for training purposes or not but when I was in the army training on set up of claymores there was a huge difference in the boom and destruction cone. In my training the two outer ballistic dummies would have had considerably more damage done. We were trained to use them at about 60 feet away from an ambush zone so was interesting to see this demo.
Yeh, I was thinking this was way too close to the dummies. Certainly could happen that close in combat scenario but that's not the ideal effective distance, as you mention.
Usually when setting up you place the back against a more solid object like a tree to help direct more fragments towards the kill cone or atleast thats what we were taught
VERY cool. My fav SlowMo channel by far! Can't wait till the next! I did NOT expect a standard issue CM to be so devastating. The things we learn on RUclips. Bitching video, fellas.
"Do not try this at home."
Aww, shucks. I was just about to bust out my claymores!
The instructions for the Claymore suggest that sandbags be placed behind the weapon in order to direct the blast toward the bad guys AND achieve the max range. If you had, the fireball would have been directed toward the dummies AND ALL would have been blown down. We used to place Claymores behind a 55 gal. drums of Foogas (diesel+thickener) between the wires of the firebase. The ground was dugout toward the enemy with the Claymore in the back. Kind of like scooping the dirt toward the bad guys. If a sapper made it past the outer wire the OP would squeeze the appropriate clacker and the result was crispy critters with holes.
Can confirm- avgas illuminates the first wave.
honestly, this is the combination RUclips has needed since the get-go.. explosions, guns, and highspeed video. Just by the numbers alone, it's guaranteed that you will film something that leads to a discovery; possibly in fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, or even Explosives Engineering. And I'm gonna be watching when you do!
Next year on Ballistic High Speed "we have an MLRS and we're gonna see what happens to these ballistic lab dummies"
Combat medic here. That one mannequin might live, but 2 pneumothorax/hemothorax. I'd say he would live until the medivac showed. High probability of death.
Not to mention concussive damages to organs.
@@brandongibbs3016 or if any of the major arteries in the thoracic cavity were nicked.
@brandongibbs3016
At 6:01 you can see a ball has come in at the neck, severing the carotid & the blood tracking between the spinus processes.
Blood straight to the c-spine.
Night night!
Some of the highest quality content on youtube. I can't believe how impressive this is.
Glad you enjoyed!
Development of the claymore actually required the use of an epoxy layer between C4 & pellets to maximize projectile velocity!
I knew a guy very well who was a paratrooper and evidently was involved in special forces. He told me that while in South America, he was having to scout some type of para military base or something along those lines (had to be 1970's-80's) and after conducting his observations, a patrol picked up his trail somehow in the jungle. They were catching up to him so he decided to take them out. He set up a claymore and then made snoring sounds. he did this for a bit and it brought these guys in and they were so perplexed as to who could be sleeping out in the jungle. When they were in position, he set off the claymore and then made his way back to extraction with no more patrol after him.
Cool story bro
Bro I think your homie lied to you lmao
A drone flying in the air would be good to capture those shots that are obstructed by debris, fire and smoke.
A Phantom camera on a drone would be nice!
@@BallisticHighSpeedhow many millions would that cost? 🤣
My favorite ballistics slow motion channel. Absolutely incredible content!
Police: Rings my doorbell.
The claymore hooked up to it: 2:42
at 2:47 you can see the drones shadow on the smoke plume
That was extremely intense to watch the slow motion of the amount of pellet perforations happening to those torsos. Then the blast damage to the center dummy, wow. I love seeing how surprised ya'll were at the damage in the post op exam. Priceless!
Watching this stuff makes me realize how crazy it is that we do this sort of thing to each other.
Humans are devils
Not so crazy if the bad guys deserve it.
@@squeakycleannnn everyones the good guy from their own perspective. the iraq war is a fairly recent good example of the west being the bad guy
@@hotdog9262 I agree, this is totally relevant. :o)
These are my favorite vids. I always wished the slo mo guys did more ballistics stuff, now I don't need to wish any longer. :)
I've seen stuff like that before. We used to setup a mechanical ambush. A trip wire, a spoon from a C ration pack, 2 stripper clips, rubber bands a PRC 25 battery, and a claymore . One night we got a call on the radio, we had an ambush out and there was an explosion. When we got there his buddies had what was left of one of our guys in a poncho. He had set up the claymore, and hooked up the battery. He said that he didn't think he had it set right and went out to check it. He didn't unplug the battery. They put him in the back of my personnel carrier. It was surreal going down the road and seeing those double 00 buck steel shot fall out of his body and roll around on the deck.
Just showed my daughter this and she giggled when they found the brain in the tree line.
I love watching this channel grow from the first videos, all the way to exploding claymores!
THAT. . . was totally insane! I knew claymore mines were something you Do Not want to be anywhere near when it goes off. Up until Basic Training in `96 I had never heard an explosion that loud before. I noticed that the fireball was mainly to the rear, but I wonder what it would be like if you attached it to a dead tree stump. my Combat Engineer school leads me to think that the brunt force of it would be redirected more to the front and be more devastating. Maybe next time try that
This channel’s content just keeps getting better and better! Well Done, lads!
I was Infantry in the early eighties. They did a demonstration for us with two live Claymores. They set up a plywood wall of maybe 8’-10’ high, by approximately 24’ wide. It was completely covered with inflated party balloons. The first one clacked off, destroyed all but a few of the balloons. The second one cleared the rest. I don’t recall seeing ANY fireball. It was impressive to say the least.
I think the best part about this is that it’s an authentic claymore and not just something rigged to simulate the real deal. Who cares if the simulation is accurate, authenticity matters
"FACE TOWARD ENEMY"
It's not a real claymore (they don't use PETN - that's too sensitive - they use C-4), but it is a reasonable facsimile of one.
@@50buttfish isn't it
"FRONT, TOWARD ENNEMY" ?
If I understand correctly it was a real claymore housing which helps with the pressure wave and spread being correct, but it was probably demilled and they put their own balls and explosives in. I think in production claymores the balls are epoxied in not plastered and theirs had nonstandard explosive weight and shot count though. Pretty darn close though.
Surprised by the amount of explosion that was to the rear of the claymore
Yeah, it seems they are less uni-directional than I thought
If I heard correctly, they overloaded it with explosive and ball bearings. If you take anything beyond design, the results are going to change.
back blast is a thing.
There's a reason why they generally try to place it with a tree or other object behind.
Both to help direct the blast and reduce back blast. The ball bearings go forward but the blast throws stuff all over.
Not sure why but I've always wondered what it would look like if it was curved the opposite way, like a jet of ball bearings? 😅
O_O
Same....targeting would just have to be really precise.
It wouldn't work so well. Lots of the BBs would hit off each other and bounce outward making a wide but unpredicatable spread. (They are made this way for a reason)
The explsion would stabilize in front and send a shockwave toward you at about 20,000 fps.
@@AlasdairThompson basically what I thought but you'd never know for sure until you saw it in slow motion 😂
Did you epoxy the ball bearings in? When the claymore was being developed the army found that if they were just packed in loose they wouldn't accelerate as efficiently.
Yes they were.
@@BallisticHighSpeed awesome, great video as always!
@@chemistryofquestionablequa6252 Glad you enjoyed!
would be interesting to see how much damage you would take, when you are laying behind the Claymore. Just to know how much energy is the Claymore capable of transmitting towards the desired and it's designed direction. Or also to know, how far would you have to lay behind the Claymore, to not suffer from any damage. Great content guys!
The concussion from behind isn't as bad as you might think. The charge is designed to direct as much of the force of the explosion forward (hence "Front Towards Enemy"). If memory serves, a 20 meter buffer between you and your mine is the minimum.
As above comment, we’d lay behind our packs 15-20m behind the mines.
It still wasnt most fun experience, but none of us have been injured from it.
Place a filled sandbag directly behind the claymore and you can be within about 4 meters of it. Have done it in Namibia, 1988. Was spitting sand for a week, but clearly lived. Very loud. Was lying flat directly behind it.
It's a shaped charge so the majority of the force is projected away. There's a very good reason why it says "Face toward enemy" on the front face. That being said, you still wouldn't want to be close behind it. The so-called "minimum safe distance" is subjective and dependent upon terrain and whether you packed a sandbag behind it as recommended. Personally, I don't want to be any closer than ten meters if possible... mainly to save my eardrums. The explosion is pretty loud and energetic. If you sandbagged it, I SUPPOSE you could be as close as 2 meters and get Away with it, but I really wouldn't recommend it as a common practice
Awesome video as usual. A couple gallon jugs of water behind the claymore will put sooooo much more energy into the projectiles and toward your targets. You can see the energy loss rearward in the overhead view of the detonation.
It's amazing how effective loading with water is, I've used it often with ag blasting, my other favourite is constructive wave fronts, so two smaller charges on each side of the target and the opposing wave fronts meet in the middle of the target and the intensity is doubled. Amazing technique for trees and boulders.
@@kingcosworth2643 Woah! I bet that would look incredible in slow motion.
@@HonorNecris The craziest effect I have witnessed was firing a 1/4in thick bit of open cell foam through a car door and the bit of foam was completely unscathed on the other side, still just a bit of spongey foam, it left a hole that was the exact shape of the foam in the sheet metal as well, like a road runner cartoon. No way would I have ever guessed that this would happen. Only required a few grams of PETN and water loading as well.
@@kingcosworth2643 Gnarly!
This might very well be my favorite RUclips channel of all time
07:45 A 'nice' fireball...I'm so glad 'fun times' were had by all.
Any chance you guys could place a thermometer on one of the torsos to see the amount of heat that comes from the explosions? Awesome work!!
Thermal campera?
Thermometer can't react fast enough. So, thermal cameras.
@@Kualinar : Even better. Must be a shock of crazy heat with that blast wave.
That was great, but I don't think anyone can top GarandThumb and the tank shells vs torso high speed. That was just absolutely insane.
You guys should do this again. I'd like to see how the targets would be effected if they were at the proper height. As well as setting the claymore into the earth at an slightly upward angle instead of on a pallet. There was a lot of extra fragmentation produced by the pallet. You could also test the protection of level 3a soft and level 3/3+.
I am here because I saw a a shorts about a movie, where the protagonist used a claymore and a balistic shield or a riot shield to ram a guy in the face.
The movie was "Nobody".
Absolutely amazing video. Claymores are SOOOOO devastating. Now I know why Vietnam vets have a hard time.
I finally watched the movie Nobody and was googling what a claymore would actually do to a person, and I wanted to see it in slow-mo so I could really visualize the 60 degree radius. I can’t believe this was just posted two weeks ago, it’s such perfect timing. Thanks for this! It was really informative.
Jeez, I had no idea claymores were THIS destructive. That's terrifying.
I still remember when this channel had only about 40k subs 10 or so months ago. It’s amazing to have seen the rise, and it is very much deserved. Congrats on 300k!
I was a combat engineer and I’ve set off my fair share real claymores and they actually have metal disks about the size and shape of quarters but obviously BB’s work too! 👍
There have been at least a few variants of claymore mines, some with the ball bearings, some with flat solid discs and some with flat "washers" (they had a hole in the center that supposedly made them flip through the air like when you flip a coin and they made a really terrifying scream going through the air) and there were also Shaped Charge versions for ambushing a vehicle, and others as well.
When I was training in Army we used claymore mines on trees. Very fun.
In regards to the second gel torso, it would have very few chances of survival. Pericardium should be at least torn and this could provoke death very quickly even if the myocardium (heart muscular lining) isn't torn. Both lungs are injured, probably collapsed (Haemo-pneumothorax). If it's brain/brainstem/upper cervicals survived the initial blast (which is very uncertain)... it is still very likely that the internal bleedings will kill it in a few minutes or even faster. Even with an advanced medikit able to seal the pleural wounds, stop external bleedings and expand the blood volume... it would need at least thoracic surgery within less than an hour.... and even if it lives... haemorrhage shock and wounds would probably cause limbs necrosis and, therefore a life with amputated limbs.
I was a Corpsman in 121st Evac Hospital in Korea in 77-78 when our Dust-Off brought us 9 So. Korean Soldiers mascal from the DMZ who were behind the claymore when it went accidentally went off due to an errant static charge during a live-fire training exercise, I was assigned one Korean soldier for palliative care & debridment his left eyeball was hanging out, while the rest of his body suffered over 95% burn injury. He was burnt to a crisp & did not survive, that burnt flesh remained in my nose to this day. His comrade was in the trauma room with part of his left lower leg hanging by a few strands of calf muscles. I heard the surgeon call for a specimen bucket & just snipped of the remaining muscles to amputate the soldier's foot. It was a horrific scene, the rest of the Korean soldiers suffered major burn & debris injuries, just like the flying piece of wood from the pallet in this video. All who can still moan were crying out "aygu, aygu..." 💔😭😭😭 RIP our S. Korean Brothers 🙏❤️
In Army Basic Training we sat on a hill at Ft. Jackson and watched a battlefield demonstration. one of the elements was a claymore going off, obliterating as wall of balloons. IMNSHO the claymore in this video should have been placed further away from the dummies. We had a "smart book" in basic that we had to carry everywhere and read, read, read. It had the specs and distances. That was 1988 but I still vaguely remember something about a 60 degree swath 15 feet high at 60 feet. I may be way off on that, though! BTW reading that smart book got me the smarts to compete for soldier of the battalion in AIT. I won at the platoon level, then the company, and was one of four who competed at battalion level. My motivation? I earned no CQ and no fire guard for the entire AIT--that WAS great.
When I went through Infantry training in the 1980s we set up about 6 paper human targets approx. 20 feet from a Claymore and detonated it. ALL of them would have been killed. The targets were shredded. I think back then ours had about 500 steel balls and 1 lb. of C-4. Correct me if I am wrong. Nice video guys!
1965 Army boot camp-
My sister's boyfriend and I wrote letters (more for me to keep an eye on her I think). He said to show them the power of a claymore they had stacked 3 flattened "old 56 Chevies" on top of a claymore . When the detonation happened he said the top Chevy went about 20 feet up in the air. The bottom two a lesser amount. He said that demonstration got mad respect for that little piece of hell. The sarge would yell ,"who are we the quick or the dead?", A few would respond THE DEAD! Next stop Vietnam he died there.
9:23 amazing guess. I did the math, for Goose loads of 3.5” its like 22 times the energy. For Turkey loads it’s 19 times the energy. It’s legitimately like having 20 shotguns going off. But with only about 3-4 shotguns worth of shot weight. Velocity is an amazing multiplier…
The concussion of the force of the explosion would have ruptured blood vessels inside the brain causing massive hemorrhagic stroke killing them pretty quickly im not a medic but I am a nurse and ya I’ve taken care of people who’ve been inside industrial explosions and it’s rare they are ever the same
That is incredibly interesting! I never new claymores were that directional! But apparently they spray tons of shrapnel directly in front of them. Very nice footage
Combat tour VN 70-71. We set up claymores with trip wires and a battery. We called them “mecks” … short for mechanical ambush. I normally set the meck up with the trip wire 20 feet away. We were in a free fire zone so units were not supposed to be close to each other. We would set them up on trails at night to protect our night position or during day for an ambush. If an NVA or VC would walk into one the first person would have a double amputation, with the following personnel chest and or head wounds. They were devastating and if you walked into one there would be multiple fatalities. When we retrieved undetonated claymores we had to make sure the “dinks” had not turned them around on us.
That blast was much higher than a Vietnam claymore. My team leader tripped a wire and took a blast that was set up as an ambush by another team. Yeh, friendly fire. It wasn't straight on and I don't know how far away the claymore was but it laid him out with BB holes his entire body. Several others behind him took hits as well. When I walked by him he was on his back, in shock, staring straight up at the sky. He was smoldering from the unburned C4 that also covered him. He was alive when they put him on the chopper and normally we hear if one of our guys didn't make it, so he no doubt got sent back to the States to recover. The sad thing is it's been so long, and I don't even remember his name even though that's one of the incidents that still haunt me to this day.
This in an excerpt from Terry O'Farrel's book based on his experience with the SASR in Vietnam;
"I cranked the m57 firing device......Two males were sprawled flat on the ground with bits of brain, flesh and blood splattered all over the place. Incredibly, one continued to cough and twitch despite being blasted apart by ball bearings and 7.62 at close range. I will never forget how his body lifted and shuddered causing his arms and legs to straighten in a paroxysm of macabre dance movements. The other was totally fucked from a horrendous head would".
There was a reason why claymores were and still are used to initiate ambushes.
I love how movies have always someone jumping ahead of a blast wave LOL
The killzone of the claymore is terrifying, so that's why claymore roombas are a threat
6:06 thinking that guy would've been unconscious and would bleed out in minutes.
Any fellow soldiers in the field would immediately assume kia.
This claymore device would be useful in dealing with unruly neighbors.
The claymore was too close,
My army Sargent Major made us chant " Ambush is Murder and Murder is Fun!"
Was in Army infantry. The blast of a claymore is so intense it can kill for several meters in the “safe” direction.
y'all should try and get in contact with "The SloMo Guys" and see if you can't get some of those really slow slow mo explosions that your current slow mo can't capture
Holy shit this channel just gets crazier and crazier, you've really come out of the gates swinging, keep up the fantastic work!!
VietNam,1974,.our patrol was being chased/herded towards an ambush point,so we had to make an"opening",to escape.
We set a claymore ,pointing towards our rear,then,25 meters ,ahead we set one on each side of the trail,5 meters in,and went further up the trail,to wait.
20 minutes later approximately 40 vc came up the trail,and as the entered the "Zone" we tripped them,and we faced up-trail,for the ambush.
After a quick fire fight.we checked the area....
Shredded bodies,and a couple of blood trails,into the bush,was all we found..
We got to our LZ,and went back to our area.
I never forgot that sight.....I'm 71,now...
I x-rayed a Vietnam vet 2 weeks ago. Got hit by 2 claymores. First one got him....second one a minute later only peppered him, but decapitated the medic coming to help him. Every picture i took had multiple pieces of metal in them. Miracle he survived. I'll never be able to properly express the level gratitude and respect i hold for men like him (and that medic). God bless veterans.
If he's rolling with a good medic he might survive..., the medic was the one in the middle. lol.
I wanna see a shaped charge against a ballistic torso. If possible, one behind armor and one unprotected entirely
Satisfying it may look. But, you can't deny how scary it is to be in front of one
We fired claymore style when I did service. Massive explosion. We also had a larger one for trucks and support vehicles. 🤘
Didnt know claymores were this explosive
I'm an expert at setting up and handling claymore mines. I got my first real world experience with them in the 60's, in the Groznyj Grad fortress of Tselinoyarsk, Russia. In those days I was known simply as "Jack". After a failed mission where I was betrayed by my mentor and lover, I healed and re-entered the warzone in order to rescue a nuclear physicist that was being forced to work on a new, experimental mobile nuclear ballistic missile system. I won't bore you all with the details, but I experimented a lot with claymore mines during my missions over the years. They are most definitely effective at dispatching the enemy, however they are far from my weapon of choice. I've personally found stealth a much more viable approach to dealing with almost every situation.
Not a combat medic but previous RN, MA, Trauma medicine training. The guy on the left is salvageable as long as none of the shrapnel hit his heart, brachial artery, or carotid arteries. The sucking chest wound would need to be addressed ASAP to prevent pneumothorax, if you could get that stabilized and them to a field hospital I would give them a 50-70%+ survival rate. They are definitely getting a TBI and blown eardrums and would have a long road to recovery. I have a friend in Ukraine that got hit directly (like less than a meter away when they went off) with two anti-tank mines and walked away with a TBI, blown eardrum, burns and light abrasions. If it had been an anti-personnel mine they probably wouldn't be alive.