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  2. Claymore mine - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Clacker - Wikipedia

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    Clacker may refer to: ... M57 firing control for the Claymore mine; a ratchet or cog rattle; See also. Clackers (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 20 ...

  4. MON-50 - Wikipedia

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    Non-armed MON-50 displayed by the Swedish military's EOD and Demining Centre. Text reads "К ПРОТИВНИКУ" (k protivniku, "towards enemy").The MON-50 (Russian: МОН-50) is a Soviet rectangular, slightly convex, plastic bodied, directional type of anti-personnel mine designed to wound or kill by explosive fragmentation.

  5. List of the United States military vehicles by model number

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    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 ...

  6. M5 crowd control munition - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. M57 - Wikipedia

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    BMW M57, a 1998 diesel automobile engine Miles M.57 Aerovan , a 1945 British short-range, low-cost transport Messier 57 (M57), a planetary nebula also known as the Ring Nebula

  8. Mini MS-803 mine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System - Wikipedia

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    Range: 70–300 kilometres (43–186 mi). 176 M48 were produced between 2001 and 2004, when production ceased in favor of the M57. During Operation Iraqi Freedom 16 M48 were fired at Iraqi targets a further 42 M48 were fired during Operation Enduring Freedom. [64] [55] The remaining M48 missiles remain in the US Army and US Marine Corps' arsenal.