Car Bomb

The Car Bomb, or Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device, is an IED using a car both as the weapon and transportation to set it in place. It was the Explosive Weapon of the Medellin Cartel.

Description

The car bomb is simply an everyday car filled with gasoline and dynamite and detonated remotely. Some suicide bombers would drive the car and detonate it while driving at its target. The amount of bombs vary from a few dozen pounds to half a ton, but technically any amount of explosions that can fit in the car would work.

Stats

Frag Radius: 100 yards
Dynamite: 40 lbs
Remote detonator or manual detonation

Use

The car bomb has long been used by terrorists wanting to place a significant amount of explosives in a crowded place without drawing unwanted attention. The Medellin Cartel frequently used them as a way of causing widespread damage to demonstrate their power. It has also been used by other terrorists like Taliban, Viet Cong, Somali Pirates and IRA.

The most famous instance occurred on December 6, 1989, when a car loaded with 1,100 lbs of explosives was detonated outside of the DAS headquarters in downtown Bogota, Columbia. Over 50 were killed, with more than 600 more injured, and destroying over 300 commercial properties. For the sake of maintaining a fair and realistic match, and to avoid the cartel members to get constantly killed by their own explosion, only 40 lbs were used on Deadliest Warrior. This is still realistic and still the largest explosive weapon on the show yet.

Deadliest Warrior

While the car bomb is only an official weapon of the Medellin Cartel, a scene from the episode "IRA vs. Taliban", two IRA soldiers place a nail bomb under a British man's car, turning it into a car bomb. In fact a large nail bomb can deliver a similar amount of damage compared to the TNT carbomb.

Footage of Taliban suicide bombers and planning behind carbombings [1]

Test

The car bomb was pitted against the RPG-7 of the Somali Pirates. A car bomb packed with 40 lbs of explosives was demonstrated and obliterated all targets and surrondings. The RPG-7 was tested against a shack with a guard in it; it completely destroyed the shack and massacered the target. Despite the fact that The RPG-7 was portable and could be fired repeatedly at a distance, the edge was given to the car bomb for its better chance at killing multiple targets with its larger explosive payload.

Trivia

The car bomb is seen in archive footage used by the IRA to assassinate a target.