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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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Why not tape them to the bridge too?
I feel like driving out to the bridge would take longer than drilling a hole (with the benefit of maximizing destructive power).
Go get a baby. I guess something else that weighs similar would also work, but the awkwardness of a baby conveys the right level of fuss you would take with individual charges, and grab a roll of duct tape, then find a concrete wall of some kind and see how much tape you need to stick that baby to a rough old dirty concrete wall.
(Do not detonate the baby.)
However, of you drill, you don't need the volume of a baby, just a few of sticks of c4.
Just take a look at how buildings are demolished, they drill holes. It's the best way to destroy a building. Why would the Finns be silly and not do that. If it's so important one could pre drill those holes, limiting time.
The point is that you could do that, with a roll of gorilla tape.
The point isn't it's more awkward to do and takes longer, the point is that the explosive force delivered to the bridge would be the same. (Actually slightly more with a gorilla tape covered explosive as it would marginally increase the forces on the bridge compared to just hanging ones.)
If you put an explosive inside the bridge, the force delivered to the structure is several times more. Thus it would make sense to have "pits" to out explosives into, not just hooks to hang them off of.
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"Charge PITS", not "nails" or "hooks".