If you strapped a claymore (or other directional mine) to your chest with the bangy side facing away from you, could you detonate it to kill people in front of you without killing yourself?
I just read this crazy shit the South Koreans special forces used to do, and I was wondering if this was a suicidal kamikaze thing or a legit tactic,
>Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe_murder_incident#Operation_Paul_Bunyan
>>30659746
Directly on your chest it's full suicide status. The direction of a claymore is the shape designed to direct the shrapnel forward, the blast itself and shrapnel from the mines casing will still travel backwards.
>>30659746
You will die.
>>30659775
What about on the back of an armoured backpack?
You could throw yourself to the group, hunch up like a turtle, and blow up everyone nearby
>>30659798
What is a grenade for 500 Alex
>>30659827
what did he mean by this?
>>30659798
The blast would still turn your internal organs to paste.
Don't listen to these idiots. It is full proof plan and you will return hero of mother land
It would be extremely painful
just wear two claymores as shoes and do a flying kick to blow up everyone in front of you desu
>>30659746
Homicide vest?
So the force would probably still kill you, but what if you absorbed the force of the blast with something? Like, what if the claymore was attached to several large springs, which were strapped to your chest?
>reciprocating homicide vest
>>30659746
It's got a lethal back last of like 15 feet.
Those South Koreans were playing the ballsiest game of chicken in human history.
>>30660000
Quads deem it possible go be brave for all of /k/
I was actually thinking about this the other night. I remember some story about some fags tying a rope to the claymore, throwing it over a wall and clearing the whole compound with it. I'd like to hear some more stories like this.
>>30660085
Dick Meadows, a MACV-SOG vet, once ran up alongside a NVA filled truck with claymore and clacker in hand, tossed the mine in the truck bed, and clacked it off. Pretty baller.
>>30660085
>the stories posted on this website are works of fiction
>only a fool would take anything posted here as fact
>>30660112
He must have learnt that off battlefield 3
>>30659746
The whole point of that stunt was that it's an insane, suicidal tactic.
Here's a historical reenactment of the incident:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyZEUeAoFKE
>>30659862
He's a big guy
>>30660170
if he jumped while throwing it he must have played BF2
man I fucking loved that game. C4 was a great weapon. throw that stuff around corners and blow people up with it. anti-tank? C4 throwing. C4 was a better weapon than the gun.
>>30659746
30m kill radius to the rear of the mine. Even with a plate vest the overpreassure would liquify you.
>>30659849
he meant that he's a big guy, for you
>>30659746
Fuckin crazy ass Korean's man
What if you had a metal frame around your chest and a claymore with no shrapnel on the back that detonated at the same time
What about if the mine was on your head? That way you would be under the front and back blast, and your helmet would soak up the miniscule amount of downward caseshrapnel
plus you could aim it by looking towards whatever you want to destroy before detonating it
>>30660836
That dog is the cutest of them all
>>30659746
>Several of the special forces men also had claymore mines strapped to their chests with the firing mechanisms in their hands, and were shouting at the North Koreans to cross the bridge.
I wonder what, "CROSS THE BRIDGE YOU GAP TOOTHED DOG FUCKING FAGGOTS I DARE YOU," is in Korean.
>>30660971
lmao imma need a source for that image
>>30660980
Fuck if I know I got it from here when some retard was talking about strapping meat to his body to save him from pistols and shotguns.
Then some glorious anon posted this in response, I had a screencap but my dog went full retard under my feet and knocked over my tower so I lost it before I could save.
>tfw I have to upgrade my computer because my dog is autistic, all just so I can shitpost and play Dwarf Fortress
>>30660884
I've actually never noticed the dog until you pointed it out
>Operation Paul Bunyan thread
This is why I love my country.
>>30660023
>the ballsiest game of chicken in human history.
the same could be said of the entire operation
>>30659746
>don't fuck with the ROKs
>the post
>>30660861
BRILLIANT!
Now go test it.
>>30660000
wasted get
>>30660980
>>30661024
>>30660842
Blast overpressure would liquefy your brain.
>>30659855
I've been 20m away from a claymore as it has blown with no cover in between. It'd hurt but you cloud be right behind it with a backpack for cover. A tree would be better though.
>>30660023
Nein, its a 16m danger radius to the read. It will send secondary shrapnel backward but you can get pretty close.
>>30660743
It's a 16m danger radius to the rear. It will not liqufy you. Source: I've been 20m to the rear of detting claymore
>>30659746
Crazy viet nam uncle story incoming
>Be my uncle
>driving up armoured trucks in nam
>crazy VC guy would jump into the road cook off a hand grenade, and toss it under the truck as it headed towards him.
>trucks did have armor, so it would just flatten the tires, ring everyones bell, but now you are stuck waiting for a wrecker for 3 hours.
>same fucking gook, every fucking time
>theyd try to speed up to run the gook over but the slippery bastard always darted into the jungle a tad too quickly.
>uncle is looking at a claymore one day, "FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY"
>gets an idea
>uses duct tape to affix 1 claymore to the bumper under each headlight
>wires them both to the same trigger which he duct tapes to his steering wheel.
>on convoy
>coming up to one of mr boom-boom's favorite corners
>on que mr boom boom springs out of the bushes with a grenade, arm cocked behind his head, and no idea how differently things are about to go today.
>50 feet away uncle triggers the mines strapped to his uparmoured cargo truck's bumper and is immediatley knocked out by the concussion
>wakes up a half hour later
>the front half of the engine compartment is gone, the engine is wedged up under the rear axle
>there is a gory spray of lumpy crimson leading from the blood soaked front of the truck down the center of the road, presumably mr boom boom
>the armoured cab kept my uncle from dying, but only just.
>the truck crew following said mr boom boom was shredded by the wall of high velocity ball bearings that hit him, dropped his grenade, which then blew up as what was left of him was run over by the truck which was still barreling forward despite dragging its engine underneath it.
>everyone decided to lie and say a gook with an anti tank mine strapped to his chest threw himself under the truck
Claymores are 1 pound of C4. It doest matter what direction the thing is facing, you wanna be ATLEAST 100 meters away from it. Uncle has permanantly slurred speech from it.
>>30663567
I love it.
>>30663567
That's one way to kill a trolling gook. Your uncle is a fucking legend.
>>30663567
Holy shit that's amazing.
Any more stories?
>>30664207
Got one of my own from afghan thats pretty visceral
>be grunt, boot, first deployment
>take a bunch of fire from a compound
>we had a ma duece on a stretcher for portability purposes
>light up the compound with a full can of SLAP rounds, plus a couple belts through the 240
>clear it
>guy on floor with his guts hanging out looks at us and I shit you not, in the most confused voice says:
>"you arent allah"
>(recieved durka durk lingual training, so we understood it"
>staff sgt on his 8th combat deployment (his first combat was the taking of fallujah) goes
>"no, but you will see him soon" and stomps on his throat
found out that fucker was loonier than a squirrel turd
>in static position
>he comes out of the truck not wearing anything
>shrugs "gotta shit"
>digs a hole, squats, commences to shitting
>begin taking heavy machinegun fire
>were all trying to find cover, hes still shitting
>rounds are impacting a few feet away while he wipes
>were yelling and screamimg at him to get behind something, put some pants on, or fuck, atleast acknowledge that hes being shot at
>he stands up full height, bare as naked, turns around, looks at us and screams "IM TRYING TO TAKE A SHIT HERE, CANT YOU MOTHER FUCKERS SHUT THE FUCK UP FOR 5 MINUTES?"
>he is bare ass naked, tracers cracking past his bare ass, screaming. AT US.
Guy was a fuckin nutcase.
He did the whole "wandering around without pants" thing on several occaisions. Like, hed get hot, take his pants off, and legit it would just slip his mind that he didnt have them on.
multiple TBI, it messes ya up man.
>>30660710
There's nothing you can't do with the required amount of HE if killing/destruction is your goal
>>30662937
Call of duty doesn't count faggot
>>30663567
>Be my uncle
I'm so glad "The Man Who Folded Himself" wasn't written this way.
>>30663567
Screencap please
>>30664423
Jesus fuck
>>30665362
>>30659849
that the reason the grenade was invented was exploding baddies from a distance with shrapnel
ie
dont throw your self throw the grenade
>>30665172
Have you, nigger? Claymores don't have much explosive.
>>30663567
your uncle earned his place in valhalla
>>30663567
M8 the det chord is only 30m long. You can be much closer to the rear of the blast.
>>30664423
Kewl stoery broe
>>30665858
Didnt say you couldnt be closer, just that you dont want to be closer.
Not unless you got something solid to be behind.
>>30659874
CLAYMORE JUMP
>>30662974
This.
Op, if the mine is strapped to your chest, your torso will become secondary shrapnel.
ROK army confirmed for serious motherfuckers
>>30664423
>"you arent allah"
>>30662937
Yeah but who has the time or energy to be wearing a 20 meter thick backpack
