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The Claymore mine is a directional anti-personnel mine developed for the United States Armed Forces. Its inventor, Norman MacLeod, named the mine after a large medieval Scottish sword . [ citation needed ] Unlike a conventional land mine, the Claymore may be command-detonated (fired by remote-control), and is directional, shooting a wide ...
Zastava M57 (Yugoslav clone) Soviet Union: Makarov pistol: 9×18mm Makarov: 1951–present still widely used by police, military and security forces IZh-70, IZh-71, MP-71 commercial variants: 9×18mm Makarov, .380 ACP; PB (pistol) (9×18mm Makarov) silent pistol with integral suppressor; PMM (9×18mm Makarov) modernized version; OTs-35 (9×18mm ...
M57 firing control for the Claymore mine; a ratchet or cog rattle; See also. Clackers (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 20 ...
M57 truck chassis (G742) – M35 series 2½-ton 6x6 cargo truck; M58 truck chassis (G742) – M35 series 2½-ton 6x6 cargo truck; M59 truck, dump (G742) – M35 series 2½-ton 6x6 cargo truck; M60 truck, wrecker, light (G742) – M35 series 2½-ton 6x6 cargo truck; M61 truck, chassis, 5-ton, 6 × 6 (G744) – M39 series 5-ton 6×6 truck
The Mini MS-803 is a small South African produced Claymore type landmine. The design is very simple, with a convex brown polystyrene case containing a PE9 plastic explosive charge with three hundred 6 x 8 millimeter cylindrical steel fragments embedded into it.
It is similar in use and design to the M18A1 Claymore mine, but is non-lethal. Used for area denial , standoff situations, crowd control (i.e. outside embassies) by law enforcement and military services, the MCCM is effective to around 30 meters covering a 60–to-80 degree horizontal arc, with a minimum safe standoff distance of five meters ...
The BMW M57 is a straight-6 diesel engine produced from 1998 up to 2013 in BMW's Upper Austrian engine plant in Steyr. Description
Vietnam-era rifles used by the US military and allies. From top to bottom: M14, MAS 36, M16 (30 round magazine), AR-10, M16 (20 round magazine), M21, L1A1, M40, MAS 49 The Vietnam War involved the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) or North Vietnamese Army (NVA), National Liberation Front for South Vietnam (NLF) or Viet Cong (VC), and the armed forces of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Soviet ...