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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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The sapper units train how to blow up every bridge in their deployment area. Sauce: was in one
So did you do it by hanging shit off the walls or actually putting explosives into structures?
Everything I find about the defensive strategy talks about "charge pits" and "cavities", can't find a single reference to hanging or hooks.
As a dapper you'd use whatever means at your disposal, but as a defensive strategy you're doing with time, why wouldn't you actually make pits to put rhe explosives in? I'm sure as a sapper you understand how much more effective it is to have an explosive surrounded by the structure instead of just vaguely close to it, so that a majority of the explosive force actually goes into whatever you're blowing up instead of harakoille. Right?
Directional charges are a thing
Bigger bridges have … crawlspaces you can set stuff in
Yeah.. so you'd agree it would be these hooks you'd use?