First of all, this bridge is considered a super-large dual-purpose bridge for highways and railways, and was newly built after major changes in geopolitical issues in 2014. By 2022, the strategic significance of this bridge is even more prominent because it has become a direct and significant supply line for the southern battlefield. For the other side, this bridge itself means a strategic crouch. After all, not only does it lose a major peninsula, but it also basically closes the waters of Azov Sea ; and since this year, it has occupied more than 50% of the area of 2 states on the southern line. Therefore, we must naturally destroy this bridge. The other side must resolutely protect this bridge, and the contradictions are extremely sharp and irreconcilable. The ZUI battles that both sides declared that they would destroy and protect bridges had been fought for more than a day or two. More than half a year since the war started, the outside world believes that the bridge will be attacked at any time. The reason why it has been safe in the past six months is mainly because one side has always lacked heavy weapon systems that can directly destroy the bridge.
For example, the Himas precision guided rocket launcher can indeed accurately blow up bridges, and some highway bridges have been blown up in other places. However, the range of Himas is only 70 kilometers, and currently the range of this super bridge is not enough from all war zone directions. In fact, the side has been seeking the superpower to supply tactical surface-to-ground missiles with a range of 300 kilometers, and can also be launched with existing Himas launch vehicles. A major strategic goal is to prepare for long-range attacks on this super bridge; however, the superpower still has not let go. In addition, the party currently lacks 2,000-pound laser guided bomb and supporting throwing fighters. Therefore, both from land and in the air, there are lack of regular heavy weapons to destroy the bridge on a large scale. And now there is a sudden explosion and fire on the bridge. Judging from the on-site surveillance, it is highly likely that a truck will explode! The bridge deck on one side of the highway bridge was directly blown up at the site. You can see that at least 2 holes of the bridge deck broke into the sea water below.
One of them was the one that exploded on the spot. In addition, a section of the bridge deck at a distance also broke and fell, obviously being broken by a strong shock wave. Although the lane opposite the highway bridge was not broken at the same time, the explosion damage traces were also obvious. Therefore, it is said that at present, only family cars with a capacity of less than 3 tons can be used. In fact, it is estimated that even with this upper limit of pass tonnage, no vehicles dare to take the risk of passing through this section. Because after being destroyed at close range by the explosion wave, subsequent and sudden collapse of the bridge deck may occur at any time. From these two places, the road bridge part of this super bridge has obviously destroyed 80% of its passing capacity by this explosion; it has basically no longer had the actual function of a road transport channel. It may take several months to half a year to re-repair. Although the parallel railway bridge has 7 oil tankers on it, the railway bridge itself seems to have been burned by flames for several hours. Can the strength of the railway bridge after the fire is extinguished?
continue to pass through the train normally? The next step may require systematic expert evaluation. If the comprehensive strength of the railway bridge after the explosion and fire is no longer suitable for passing ordinary trains, then the destructiveness of this explosion is very strong and the impact on the current battle situation on the southern front will be very important. So can we conclude now that this is an attack of a powerful self-destructing truck that was often seen in the Middle East battlefields in the past? There is such a possibility, but it is impossible to draw conclusions easily so far. The reason for saying this is that this truck explosion still has a certain probability of pure accident. Although this probability is below 30%, it cannot be completely ruled out. The reason for saying this is mainly because it feels that this explosion is obviously not like the explosion of several tons of TNT or other high-end military explosives. Because the explosion of military explosives will produce strong black smoke. It doesn't look like an explosion of ammonium nitrate type explosives or fertilizers of the same grade. Because this type of explosion will produce large areas of white and orange smoke.
Typically, is the explosion of the fertilizer warehouse in Beirut .The explosion produced a strong red initial background light. Moreover, there were a large number of scattered objects like paper on the periphery of the explosion. It makes people wonder that this is very much like an explosion of a truck of fireworks. Don't think that fireworks will not break the super bridge if they explode. In the past, there was a precedent for a truck of fireworks that exploded and broke similar box-type large-span highway bridges. And this explosion felt that the equivalent of TNT would not exceed 200 kg. If a truck of military high-explosive explosives with a height of several tons completely detonated at the same location, it would never only blow up one side of the highway bridge, and I am afraid that even the other half of the road bridge next to it and the railway bridge at a high place would also blow up; at least which oil tankers would not remain on the bridge deck intact. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that a small amount of explosives is used to detonate a whole vehicle of fireworks . In any case, the fact that this kind of truck full of explosives can appear on such a key fortification bridge is itself a sign of the serious negligence of the bridge management!