Carpet Bomb

"Satellite coordinates required"

- Merchant of Menace store caption

The Carpet Bomb is a bomber delivered, satellite-guided, bombing run that is featured in Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.

Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction


"Facing an army? Our dedicated technicians can reroute an Allied bomber to your target location and deliver up to 12 tons of high explosives."

- Merchant of menace store description

Overview
The Carpet Bomb is a powerful air strike that can annihilate any insufficiently hardened structure within the area the size of a football field. It is comparable to the Stealth Bomber Attack, Fuel Air Bomb and Cruise Missile Strike.

The Carpet Bomb is extremely effective against infantry, vehicles and unhardened structures; hardened structures such as bunkers are not affected by this air strike.

Specifications

 * Unlocked by: Complete 'Gambit'
 * Cost: $400,000-$560,000
 * Guidance: Satellite
 * Delivery: Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

Trivia

 * This is the most expensive air strike on the Merchant of Menace store.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames
"Obliterate a large area with hundreds of bombs."

- Stockpile caption

Overview
The Carpet Bomb is a massively devastating yet incredibly cheap air strike. This air strike consists of numerous unguided Mark 82 bombs being dropped by a B-2 over a large rectangular area. This bombing is literally several Bombing Runs by a single aircraft, it affects everything except bunkers and viaduct bridges (not including the Viaduct Bridge).

Carpet Bombs are available in the forms of passcodes that can be found near AN Target Buildings.

Specifications

 * Unlocked by: Unknown
 * Cost: $250k at the Allied Nations Shop
 * Guidance: Satellite
 * Fuel: 280 gallons
 * Delivery: Allied Nations' B-2 Spirit

Real life
The Carpet Bomb is based on the areal bombing tactic of Carpet Bombing.