car bomb

car bomb is an improvised explosive device or weapon type.

Also recorded as lorry bomb; truck bomb; vehicle-borne improvised explosive device; VBIED; vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED); Car Bomb.

Overview

Improvised explosive device designed to be detonated in vehicles used primarily to kill the occupants of the vehicle (often as an assassination) and as a means to damage targets outside the vehicle by parking or delivering.

In detail

Its recorded use is truck bombing.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
“Car bomb”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata
Wikidata, structured authority record Q11244: car bomb
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