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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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I should've thought so as well but unless you can come up with better reasoning or source for these being for bombs, I still find it more probable. I'm not saying it's a good explanation, but it's more probable to me.
Anything I found was discussing "charge pits" and I can't imagine any explosive you'd want to hang on the outside of what you're demolishing with that sort of frequency.
I'm not saying it's not true, but I'm not convinced.
As a pioneer I'm quite certain that the explosive you're supposed to hang from there is just a plain anti-tank mine or few. It's basically just a 10kg chunk of TNT - even has a handle.
Yeah, it does. And it's also designed so that it takes 10 kilograms of pressure to detonate. Are you gonna rig up sideways launchers for each? Perhaps there already are remote detonators that you just replace the normal weight switch with.
But still. I don't buy it. First off why hang them so frequently, and do all the texts speak of charge PITS instead of "charge hooks"?
It just doesn't make sense to me and I just think OP has heard it from someone in real life and decided to believe it and is now spreading it here.
Unless someone can actually show these are for explosives, I just don't buy it.