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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.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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It's the military. I was there, and remember everything usually being done as efficiently as possible. What would you get by hanging explosives on the walls? A big boom which isn't even guaranteed to take down the bridge unless you use an excessive amount, whereas with the so called "charge pits", you only need a few sticks of dynamite or an equivalent amount of a modern explosive.
Why do they call them "charge pits" if they're actually just nails you hang explosives from? And why go through the trouble of hanging them ouf of something when they're gonna be practically identically efficient from the ground?
Idk man, I just don't accept these mutu-based posts. (That's "mutu" as in "musta tuntuu" as in "well I feel like this is so".)
It might be they are for them, but I'm not going to believe it, because they don't seem to be "pits" of any sort.