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Most bridges here do, and often when one needs to be demolished and rebuilt, the military blows it up just for practice.
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Plenty of bridges built in Sweden during the cold war has the openings in the foundation for the same purpose.
That sounds a lot more efficient. Just hanging the explosives isn't going to direct the energy very well.
Maybe that's the point? You need to be able to blow the bridge, but you don't want some asshole to be able to make some homemade explosive to blow it just because they feel like it
Here's a nearby railroad bridge with an opening left for the explosives instead of hooks. Different bridges use different methods.
Thats the same design the bridges here in Austria/Vienna over the Danube have; cold war planning was to delay while our military retreats into the mountains, the plains were thought to be indefensible. Looking at Ukraine will have changed a lot of minds regarding defense planning.
Having been in Tyrol many times, I feel claustrophobic retreating into the mountains. It's basically a funnel. How is it more defendable in modern warfare tactics?
Not necessarily. Drones can level a position or terrorize civilians, but you can't securely hold that position or occupy territory with them. For now, there is no replacement in that job - your infantry and armor are still doing that work.
Could as well be a bridge in Germany.
I always thought that's where the shock absorbers are placed to distribute shock (duh) and load.
Turns out the place where the shock absorber goes is also the place the „shock distributor“ works best from 😈