A claymore mine is a basic anti-personnel mine with massive stopping power. It’s a plastic housing containing an explosive charge, approximately 700 steel ball bearings, and a detonation device.

Step 7: Put the Claymore mine back in the bag, push the metal legs through the slits you cut in the bottom, and fold them down and out of the way for transportation. Step 8: Arm the mine.

QUINCY (CBS) – A disagreement over blowing leaves escalated when a man threatened his coworker with a military mine, police said. Authorities say it all started when Bruce Beck, a maintenance ...

“Previously, the Ukrainian military has had M-18 Claymore mines (and their analogs),” said Olvera, who lives in Ukraine permanently. “These require soldiers to monitor them full-time and ...

March 3, 2007 Anti Personnel (land)mines cannot distinguish between the footfall of a child and a soldier. The banning of landmines by the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty has left civilised military forces ...

One thematic issue that has been the subject of discussion in this and other Standing Committees is that of Claymore mines and OZM-72 antipersonnel mines. Both of these types of mines can ...

FORT DRUM, N.Y. (May 12, 2016) -- Senior leaders assigned to 210th Brigade Support Battalion "Providers," 2nd Brigade Combat Team, conducted a Claymore mine range May 10 on Fort Drum.

Claymore mine found in Goodwill donations ARVADA, Colo., July 22 (UPI) -- Police say a Colorado strip mall was evacuated after a Claymore mine was discovered among the donations at a Goodwill store.

Police say a Claymore anti-personnel mine has been found in a storage unit in Raynham.Raynham police and fire departments responded to the storage facility shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Thursday to ...

Claymore mines have been used by U.S. armed forces since the Vietnam War era. They can be set up to explode by remote control or by a trip wire.

Disgruntled National Guard soldier Alberto Martinez used a powerful remote-control Claymore mine to murder his two superior officers in a plot to make the slaying resemble an Iraqi terrorist attack… ...