Someone else pointed out that this has been discussed in a novel (wasn't aware). I hardly mean to say my prediction is unique. It's just one response to the question that the counterterrorism folks must ask themselves all the time: How to delivery a deadly payload of sufficient size to a target that's primarily defended against car bombs?
I seem to recall that with sufficient knowledge and commonly available detonators shaped explosive charges can be configured to hurl heavy explosive payloads, much like a mortar, with fair accuracy, great distance or very high velocity. I can't seem to find the reference on-line but I vaguely recall that a 50kg payload could be accelerated to multi-mach speeds with a device that could be placed in a car trunk. A poor man's howitzer.
steve
"War is just a racket ... something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small group knows what its about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." --- Major General Smedley Butler, 1933
