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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I took another look at the bridge videos.

There appears to be a primary blast at 2, splash of water at 4 sec, then possibly secondary blasts at 5, 7 sec?  That could explain differences in scorch marks and twisted metal?

If you look at the positioning of the boat versus the truck, the boat is on the wrong side of the bridge pylon.  Also look at the direction of the sparks.  The wind seems to be blowing hard, so tracing back the smoke and flames, it's clear where the explosion originated from.  From this angle, the explosion does line up with the large truck, but it does not match the other video taken from behind at road-level.  In the other video, the puff of expanding air seemed to be radiating horizontally, and wasn't in line with the large truck.  It was lower.

But that's when I remembered something about the way digital cameras work.  they write horizontally line-by-line starting at the top from left to right, I believe.

Depending on the timing, the camera could have just finished capturing the truck image as the explosion happened, so then only captured the lower part of the photo.  That means it's more likely that it was a truck bomb.

This does not discount that the bridge could have been rigged in advance, or something else from beneath or on the side of the bridge exploded.  It may also have been a missile impact ex. aiming for the train, but locked onto the bridge instead?  That shouldn't be possible though.  The Russian air defense around that bridge should be pretty good.

1. truckbomb
2. pre-rigged explosive
3. missile[/quote]

So if a truck bomb, did the driver know? If not, then how did they pull that off?[/quote]

The working theory appears to be neither the driver, who was a Russian national from Azerbaijan, nor his nephew, who owned the truck, were aware that the trailer contained explosive device. There reportedly is some evidence of an internet transaction to pickup and deliver a trailer with fertilizer (ammonium nitrate). The device presumably was detonated remotely in some fashion. The Russians now claim the trailer was transshipped from Odesa through Bulgaria, Georgia and Armenia with a load of polyethylene construction wrapping but have offered an x-ray image of what is indisputably a different truck and trailer.

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/13/1128625322/crimea-bridge-attack-theories[/quote]

Thanks for sharing. If this is the case, then feel terrible for the driver and family, as much as destroying that bridge is a good tactic in this war.

They must've had a tracker on it as the timing could not have been more precise.[/quote]

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