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.

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 For navigation I only had out of date French maps at 1:50,000 and a compass.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.

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.

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

Is it safe to assume that we're gonna get a super slow motion of a thermobaric bomb explosion against a ballistic gel torso?

As someone with no medical training, I can say with certainty that all 3 would be fine

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.

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.

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.

Call me clinically insane but these are always gonna be satisfying to watch

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.

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.

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.

Sending my condolences to the pallet that was utterly obliterated. Rest In Pieces

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.

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)

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.

So this is definitely a massive channel in the making. Great work guys!

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.

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

Would have loved to see it at like 20-25ft distance. As if it was remotely detonated.

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. ❤

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!

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!

8:02 i love how the lens flare on the right looks like plasma that's expanding and cooling

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.

My favorite ballistics slow motion channel. Absolutely incredible content!

you guys always make somthing thats actually interesting AND fairly educational to watch imo

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!

This channel’s content just keeps getting better and better! Well Done, lads!

That was awesome. Cheers guys for real non nerfed footage and real explosions. Looking forward to the next vid.☻

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.

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!

I've always wanted to see a slow motion claymore detonations... DID NOT DISAPPOINT.

Some of the highest quality content on youtube. I can't believe how impressive this is.

Holy shit this channel just gets crazier and crazier, you've really come out of the gates swinging, keep up the fantastic work!!

watching this in the first 5 minutes of it being posted. its 8:10 in the morning. what better time to watch things blow up!!

I love watching this channel grow from the first videos, all the way to exploding claymores!

Amazing job guys!! I watch this after listening to John Stryker Myers Sogcasts, and the fact that they would lay these on the run with 5 second fuses….. mind blown 🤯 keep the videos coming BHS!!

You guys are kicking ass. Keep up the good work.

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 KZfaq. Bitching video, fellas.

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.

Dude how have I not heard of you guys this was dope

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.

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. :)

Watching this stuff makes me realize how crazy it is that we do this sort of thing to each other.

you deserve way more recognition than you are getting! these videos are incredibly fun to watch

Can't believe I haven't found this channel until today, this is awesome!

A drone flying in the air would be good to capture those shots that are obstructed by debris, fire and smoke.

Next year on Ballistic High Speed "we have an MLRS and we're gonna see what happens to these ballistic lab dummies"

Keep up the great work, thought I had already subbed, made sure I am for sure this time. Excited for future content!

Police: Rings my doorbell. The claymore hooked up to it: 2:42

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.

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.

That is the first slow mo claymore vid I've seen and it was awesome! Those things are bananas.

Only seen one of these detonated from a very safe distance when I was in training. So it’s interesting to see an up close of what this weapon can do.

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

A more realistic claymore test would have all 3 dummies with body armor on them

Stumbled across your channel thanks to the KZfaq algorithm and glad I did, brutal but entertaining so I will be checking out the rest of your videos, new sub from the UK

The channel be killing it. Sincerely

honestly, this is the combination KZfaq 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!

Surprised by the amount of explosion that was to the rear of the claymore

Love this content guys❤ keep it up or else! 🎉🎉🎉

CRAZY, love it. Just discovered you guys. Subscribed :D

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

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!

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

That was amazing. Thanks. From the UK

This whole series has been amazing! Thanks to everyone who made it happen. Shooting a live claymore is soooo much fun.

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.

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.

This might very well be my favorite KZfaq channel of all time

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+.

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? 😅

This is some real good content, keep it up

I love your videos keep up the good work

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.

"Do not try this at home." Darn, and here I was planning to... Why did you load more HE and ball bearings than in an actual Claymore? I would have preferred to see what an actual Claymore could do.

Great stuff -- I'll be taking these findings into account on my next game.

First video ive seen on your channel. ✅️ subscribed

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!!

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.

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.

Amazing video. What about the rear blast effects? I suffered a blast in VN sitting about 10yds behind and to the left. Tripped in middle of night. I don’t remember the damage behind the claymore. And I believe the ones back in the 60’s had less than 1lb of C4. Very interesting. Going to show this to my neurologist😎

Keep up the great work this is a damn good video

This channel is going to get allot of subs ! Great video's

Claymores are nothing to sneeze at. My high school history teacher had a friend who served in the army in Vietnam come in to talk to us about it. He had an interesting souvenir in the form of a thin camo cloth worn by an NVA who was hit by his squad's claymores during an ambush. The holes on the front and the back lined up neatly.

Great video!

We fired claymore style when I did service. Massive explosion. We also had a larger one for trucks and support vehicles. 🤘

Bro I love your channel… what do you do with the ballistics dummies after you use them?

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!

good luck on your channel, very good content.

excellent!!!!

Wow awesome video and awesome channel!

I could not imagine running into one of those. Salute to the ones who have.

Just found your channel. Loved the Claymore demo. Any chance you could do the beehive round from a 105 howitzer? We used them in Vietnam. Keep up the great work.

That was AWESOME!!!!

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! 👍