The Claymore Mine - In the Movies

An overview of the Claymore mine featuring many of the movies it shows up in.

Movies Featured:

Edge of Tomorrow 2014
Jarhead 2005
Commando 1985
Predator 1987
Battlefield 3 (Video Game)
The Park is Mine 1985
No Tears for the Dead 2014
The Punisher 2004
Rob Roy 1995
Bravehear t1995
Kilo Two Bravo 2014
Proof of Life 2000
Bullet in the Head 1990
Predators 2010
Platoon 1986
Rambo 2008
Tae Guk Gi 2004
Call of Duty MW2 (Video Game)
G.I. Jane 1997
Tears of the Sun 2003
Uncommon Valor 1983
Those Who Hunt Elves (Anime)
The Green Berets 1968
SWAT 2003

#warhistory #army #actionmovies

[JohnnyJohnsonEsq]

Thanks everyone who gave their input on what they wanted to see in the next video. I'll still do all the rest of the videos voted on in due course.

[AC-nokc]

“If you can’t remember which way you placed the mine it is facing toward you, ” Murphy’s Laws of Combat Operations.

[j.peters]

My favorite depiction of this weapon was in Commando with Arnold Schwarzenegger. He planted it outside the barracks. The explosion was so powerful that it managed to teleport inside the building and blow it up from within somehow lmao

[wessltov]

Although "FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY" is my long-time favorite, "TOXIC IF EATEN" holds a special place in my heart

[ScarletRebel]

The claymore roomba needs to become a reality

[adzha]

every scene has a movie title thank you johnny

[kenneth]

There is a book I read years ago called Tank (possibly Tank Sergeant by Ralph Zumbro). The author said in Vietnam they hung claymores off the front of the M60 tank and would detonate them when the enemy would get too close like when placing a explosive on the tank.

[scotty]

I remember the first time blowing one up during my infantry training. I was very nervous attaching the blasting cap to the body. I carefully rolled out the cable gently then took cover and detonated it when it was my turn.
Once we were all done and the range was cleared I then proceeded to carefully roll up the wire back into its spool and then got worried when I couldn’t find the mine itself.
As the handling test was practised a thousand times with a wire, a fake blasting cap and a plastic claymore.
I felt pretty silly actually but it bought some much needed laughs for the boys.

[jimgaul]

This is an excellent overview. I will add some additional information from my combat tour in VN. We set up “mechs” or mechanical ambushes, which I believe was wordplay to get around the Geneva Convention. We would take a Claymore and put an alligator clip between the Claymore and the battery source. We would put a c-ration spoon handle in between the alligator clip with a trip wire attached to something solid(usually base of a tree or substantial vegetation) . The Claymore would be position and hidden on a trail strategically aimed down the trail. It would have 50 feet of wire that you would trail in the bush back to a battery. Of course the last thing you would do is attach the battery at a safe distance with some cover. I personally had one detonate prematurely due to wind causing the spoon slipping out of the alligator clip. When we were in our “night position” we would set mechs on all trails and also have command detonated Claymore placed on the outside of our position at a safe distance. If an enemy walked into a mech it would blow at least one leg off and severely injured anyone 50 feet behind them. You had to be careful retrieval of mechs as the enemy was know to reverse the setup when found and you could end up walking into your own mech. This happened to a guy in our other squad who lost a leg. It is a devastating anti-personnel weapon that has been over hyped in movies.

[jameswolf]

‘Those Who Hunt Elves?’ Wow! That, Johnny, is an impressive deep cut.

[coffee]

Nothing beats running around and planting these on backs of prone snipers in MW2 (2009)

[rabidspace]

During the Vietnam War, green berets in MACVSOG developed timed fuses for their claymores. So if they were being chased by the NVA in Cambodia, Laos or North Vietnam. A green berets or one of their indigenous team members could lay one behind a tree, put the timed fuse in and run like hell. According to John Stryker Meyer, and Lynne Black Jr. these were very effective at stopping the enemy from chasing.

[noesunyoutuber]

The "Front Toward Enemy" marking is really the perfect balance of movie cool and actually effective. It almost seems too stylish and imposing to be real, yet it is.

[imperfectlump]

I was a combat engineer in the Marine Corps. I have used at least one. We also made improvised ones with a soap holder and hex nuts. You set it off with det cord.

[MrDDiRusso]

During the Vietnam war, there were a couple of attempts to arm convoy escort gun trucks with claymore mines. The idea being that since the mine acted like a giant shotgun shell, it could disrupt ambushes. Unfortunately, the mines completely destroyed the trucks they were attached to and the plan was scrapped.

[TheMilitantHorse]

I don't have much experience with actual Claymore mines, but they actually do have offensive capabilities, mostly for ambushes. Not with tripwires, mind you, but from behind cover, you can trigger them to start an ambush.

Also, surprised the "Do Not Eat" wasn't mentioned. I love that Claymores actually have that printed on them lol.

[alanmacpherson]

Ive read stories about Vietnam where Vietnamese sappers would crawl under the wire and turn Claymores around so they faced the American's. The Yanks counteracted this by putting grenades under the mines with the pins out. I also remember on an episode of the tv show Booker that the hero shot a Claymore with a pistol to set it off. He survived the back blast of course.

[wolfsmaul-ger]

i honestly love all your videos, they completely cover specific pieces of equipment or topics and the way you use movies makes it even more entertaining and give a solid, easy to grasp image on what to expect and what to not expect of the real thing

[bryannoyce]

The large two-handed Claymore sword was used to break up enemy "shield wall" formations by literally breaking their shields. The mine was designed to break up enemy "human wave" formations.

[critterjon]

There’s a warning on the back of a claymore mine that warning you not to eat it implying that enough people have tried to eat anti personal mines that they had to add a warning