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I believe that there is a common misconception about the lehtality of the claymore mine. When properly emplaced, they do exactly what they were made to do which is cover the deadspace that crew served weapons cannot cover.

They are not a stand alone weapons system to be relied upon to kill the enemy.

The way they are employed in the Phase II is in addition to an M240 MG, 2x M249 SAWs, and a minimum of 5 x M4s in an ambush assault line. When properly emplaced approximatley 10 meters from the killzone, 15 meters apart, and aimed in accordance with the guidance for either model of claymore, they do a pretty good job of covering any area not covered by the individual sectors of fire.

Again, they are designed to be used in conjuntion with other weapons in order to be effective.

just my .02

mp