FORT CARSON, Colo.-- Helmeted heads watch patiently through the pockmarked ballistic glass from the inside of a bunker. A Soldier yells, "Claymore, claymore, claymore," and the view through the glass ...

“Front toward enemy” is the ominous warning soldiers heed while setting up the claymore mine. Named after the Scottish broadsword, the M18A1 claymore munition is a compact anti-personnel mine designed ...

Kita-Fuji Training Area, Japan -- Soldiers with the Texas National Guard trained with live explosives as Japanese members watched and learned how to use M18A1 claymore mines during "Orient Shield 11" ...

The M18A1 Claymore is a directional anti-personnel mine used by the U.S. military. Its inventor, Norman MacLeod, named the mine after a large Scottish medieval sword. Unlike a conventional land mine, ...

MALAPPURAM: The devices found were later identified as M18A1 Claymore anti-personnel directional landmines, developed for the US army by Norman MacLeod in 1956. Police said each device, weighing 1.6kg ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Even when properly employed the Claymore could be dangerous to anyone in extreme close proximity as up to 20 percent of the internal steel ball projectiles could ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The M18 contained 700 steel spheres and a pound and a half of composition C-4 explosive. During the Korean War (1950-53), United Nations (UN) forces came under constant ...

The Kerala police have handed over the investigation into the recovery of Claymore mines and self-loading rifle (SLR) bullets from under Kuttippuram bridge across Bharathappuzha in January, last year ...

Claymore mines - like the one thought to have been used to blow up a bus in Sri Lanka - are deadly explosive devices widely used around the world. Unlike most mines, claymores are placed on top of the ...