Do you suppose
that recipients of one of Uncle Sam’s patent devices get “this side toward enemy” imprinted on their skin just brefore the pellets arrive, or is it all blasted at once?
Dick? This one kept me up. You’re the one that mentioned claymore, you know more than any of us, lemme know so’s I can sleep tonight.
Nope… it leaves no imprints but sure is handy at brush cutting…
I always used to double check a thousand times that I had the damn things facing correctly each night when we set up TB.
I still break out in a sweat thinking about them. :-)
It would be amusing if it was to happen that way, but alas, the cover is peeled away in the blast.
Dick
It’s not difficult to arrange though. Just score the plastic around the “This Side” inscription. It oughta than blow right out with the charge and pellets.
Might be more fun to change it from “This Side, etc”, to “PRESS HERE”, with a clicker-trigger under said lettering?
Not that we’d want ’em that close to our defenses, but if so, let’s have fun with it, what?
Jim
Sloop New Dawn
Galveston, TX
I’ll defer to the true veterans who actually used these things, for they saw what they actually do, but I was taught in Basic that the Claymore is, in effect, a scythe of pellets aimed at knee level, designed to cut the legs out from the enemy. So no plastic face to fling out – it gets pulverized by the blast and pellet stream.
From Wikipedia:
“When the M18A1 is detonated, the explosion drives the matrix of 700 spherical fragments out of the mine at a velocity of 3,995 feet per second (1,200 m/s) [1], at the same time breaking the matrix into individual fragments. The spherical steel balls are projected in a 60° fan-shaped pattern that is two meters high (6 ft, 8 in) and 50 meters (165 ft) wide at a range of 50 meters (165 ft). The force of the explosion deforms the relatively soft steel fragments into a shape similar to a .22 rimfire projectile [1]. These fragments are moderately effective up to a range of 100 meters (328 ft), with a hit probability of around 10% on a prone man-sized 1.3 square foot target (0.12 square meters). The fragments can travel up to 250 meters (820 ft) forward of the weapon. The optimum effective range is 50 meters (165 ft), at which the optimal balance is achieved between lethality and area coverage with a hit probability of 30% on a man-sized target.”