Kerch Bridge in Crimea has just been blown up.
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Anonymous
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This part was disappointing.
Russia's Ministry of Transport said on Sunday that all freight and long-distance passenger trains were running according to schedule, and that ferries would help transport additional freight and passengers across the Kerch strait, the Wall Street Journal reported. https://www.axios.com/2022/10/09/russia-crimea-kerch-bridge-supply-lines |
Anonymous
| Yes, but is it true, or propaganda? |
Anonymous
Ukraine has to hit the bridge again. And it will. |
Anonymous
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But the ramifications to the Russian Army in Ukraine of losing this one bridge is clear. And it's not just the Russian military freaking, if Putin is calling it a Terrorist Act. A bit of irony given what Russians have done in Syria and Africa lately.
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-putin-9f6099f7ab937d4e6563aa0aaa4a3184 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/09/world/russia-ukraine-war-news in a sense it is an act of sheer "terror" - only to the Russian Army, though. Their offensive would collapse in the south, so I'm sure that Russian Generals and front line soldiers would be terrified if that bridge went completely down. |
Anonymous
| Just a flesh wound. |
Anonymous
The emaining span was on fire from fuel and burned for a while. It could be structural compromised. Trains actually shake bridges as they pass over them. So it could fail. |
Anonymous
There is video of something traveling under the bridge before the explosion. |
Anonymous
Before you get even more excited at discovering how smart you are - you do realize it wasn’t huge damage and it was already apparent at the time of my post? I was wrong though. There are explosions damaging critical infrastructure right now all over Ukraine I just didn’t want to face the fact that there will be escalation I am now thinking that maybe the bridge affair was an FSB false flag thing? A pretext to bomb all the cities that weren’t bombed before? I don’t know |
Anonymous
Your attempt at snark just highlights your complete ignorance about explosives. Water is incompressible. It makes a perfect medium for a explosive tamper (look it up). A truck bomb exploding on the bridge deck would direct most of the explosive force upwards into the air, imparting very little force into the deck. An explosive going off on the surface of the water would direct most of the energy upwards, since water cannot be compressed. The entire shock front of the blast would hit the span of the bridge from below, heaving it off the piers holding the spans in place. The spans would then fall down exactly as we see in the pics. The train on fire was just a convenient added bonus, and the burning fuel from the train tanker cars likely severely compromised the concrete and steel in the railway spans as well. A drone semisubmersible is probably what was used. The same type craft that is used to smuggle drugs in the Caribbean and coastal pacific. Very hard to detect with surface radar, very hard to see, and no IR signature to give away it’s presence. So a semisubmersible with several tons of explosive is likely what was used. Take your childish snark someplace else. Adults are talking here. |
Anonymous
| Completely untethered from reality. You’ve been watching too many Jason Bourne movies. Photographic evidence doesn’t lie. And nobody constructed and dispatched a “semi-submersible” full of several tons of explosives from Odessa. |
Anonymous
If narcos can build semisubmersibles in a jungle in Panama, I’m fairly certain the Ukrainians can build them too 
Do you even realize how stupid you sound to the rest of us here who actually understand this stuff? 
But please, keep going! It’s awesome. |
Anonymous
It also could be a Lone Wolf from one of the many many prior Russian wars. We tend to forget that there are a lot of families who will never forgive Russia. If you look at this video, it appears that the explosion could have occurred from under the bridge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PNTifo2SJ8 For all we know, it was a Russian submarine or maybe Belarusian's that blew it up, since it looks like this single incident will also help destabilize Belarus? The Belarusian leader said: "It will be more than one thousand people." He added that he instructed the KGB to carry out "anti-terrorist measures". https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1680585/putin-lukashenko-joint-troops-ukraine-war On the surface, Moscow would like the world to believe that Belarus is supporting Ukraine, but listen to the video where Lukashenko is talking about pulling out Middle Schoolers from classes to harvest apples and potatoes to prevent prices from rising. That means that they don't have the manual labor to do this. That could also mean that these 1,000 troops are more symbolic (to help get rid of troublemakers) than an actual fighting force, if 12-year-olds need to be "mobilized" into the fields so that the people in Belarus don't starve this winter. https://en.unesco.org/courier/october-2000/belarus-facing-disaster-alone "The soil of Belarus alone absorbed two-thirds of the fall-out and some of the nuclides, such as caesium-137, stay radioactive for more than 30 years. Food accounts for 80 per cent of the long-term contamination of the population. Since the disaster, my institute has been systematically monitoring children with special spectrometers." "After doing thousands of autopsies, Bandazhevsky and his team showed that caesium-137 had accumulated in muscle tissue, beginning with the heart. Two-thirds of the 2,000 children monitored in the highly-contaminated area of Gomel have heart problems. The concentration of caesium inthe kidneys has also caused serious mal-functions from an early age. Caesium in the eye muscles leads to cataracts. For example, a 1997 study in Svetlovisy, near Gomel, found that a quarter of children between 13 and 15 had cataracts." "During pregnancy, the placenta in mothers-to-be stores caesium which irra-diates the foetus and after the birth, the mother breastfeeds the baby with conta-minated milk. This leads to several diseases, such as “Chernobyl AIDS,” which is an immunity disorder. The radio-active particles also combine with lead (which was used in 1986 to put out the fire and was then absorbed into the ground) to cause mental retardation and stomach ailments. We are heading towards a national disaster." "They’ve lied to tens of thousands of Russians who have come from “hot spots” or crisis areas in the former Soviet Union to live in the contaminated region.¹" "¹After the collapse of the Soviet Union, 25 million Russians found themselves living outside the new borders of Russia, mainly in Central Asia and the Caucasus where there was and still is war. The Belarusian government encouraged them to settle in the contaminated areas by giving them housing, jobs and resident status." |
Anonymous
DP, and mechanical engineer No, we certainly DON’T know there wasn’t “huge damage”. In fact I’d say just the opposite. Two entire sections of roadbed were knocked off the bridge piles. That’s pretty darn huge in my book. Plus the degradation of concrete and rebar from the heat of the fire from the burning tanker cars on the railroad span. And that’s only what’s discernible in low-rez photos. I’d definitely suspect there’s shock-damage to other structure in the bridge as well. To suggest this wasn’t anything BUT major damage is lunacy. |
Anonymous
Utter nonsense. |
Anonymous
Thank you! It actually makes me feel better - at least Ukraine wasn’t bombed for nothing today, they managed to do damage as well, good for them I wonder what the next steps will be |