Look at what I posted.

Saw it. Now look at what I said and watch the end of the video. The source was the truck or right where the truck was. Not the wave. Look at everything bent away from the explosion. There's nothing to indicate the wave was the source. Nothing.

No. You're just seeing the fireball go up in a distorted monitor.

The blast originates from the boat.

According to Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev, today after 4pm it is planned to resume vehicular traffic on the undamaged part of the Crimean bridge.

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) October 8, 2022

Russian Ministry of Transport claims that the railway part of the bridge will be fixed by tonight & the first trains will be able to cross the Crimean bridge at 8pm.

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) October 8, 2022

That's why all the guardrails and lights are left bent away from the truck but not the wave? Come on man

Discussion of how the destroy, or in the case, how the target was damaged/destroyed, is tactics.

lb3 said:

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According to Transport Minister Vitaly Savelyev, today after 4pm it is planned to resume vehicular traffic on the undamaged part of the Crimean bridge.

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) October 8, 2022

Russian Ministry of Transport claims that the railway part of the bridge will be fixed by tonight & the first trains will be able to cross the Crimean bridge at 8pm.

— Russians With Attitude (@RWApodcast) October 8, 2022

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Interesting. That was a huge fire going on the rail line. Not sure I'd trust throwing a train on it

Just for reference: https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3274372/replies/61906274

I don't think the Russians have a choice but to use it. Human life is cheap to them, they have to keep the supplies moving. They will use it till it fails.

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That's why all the guardrails and lights are left bent away from the truck but not the wave? Come on man

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You aren't making sense. Pausing the video frame by frame shows exactly what happened. You can even see the unmanned vessel go underneath from the right to the left and see the point of the explosion from the vessel.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2022/09/22/mystery-vessel-may-be-new-ukrainian-attack-drone/amp/

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Interesting. That was a huge fire going on the rail line. Not sure I'd trust throwing a train on it

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Same. Would they be able to replace all the fire affected rail this quickly? Or would they be affected at all? I'm assuming that rails are hot rolled steel so any damage would be dimensional due to distortion from the heat. Would think a derailment would be a worse look than not being able to bring it back online quickly would be.

Video of the consequences of night strikes on the railway junction in Ilovaisk, Donetsk region
/4 pic.twitter.com/ze8np6pnSk

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) October 8, 2022

Simultaneously, to the destruction of the Kerch rail bridge the rail tracks of Ilovaisk have been target. The damage seems to be extensive. #Ilovaisk #Donetsk #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/OCPFLLNFU2

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) October 8, 2022

Last comment: there is no vessel visible. It's a wave. If it had been the source there'd be a huge disruption of water. There wasn't. The physical evidence is all bent away from the source, which was the destroyed span the truck was on, not the span with a wave underneath. If you can't see that then you're just seeing what you want to see.

Edit: also that drone is too small. Also an explosion under the road bridge would be very unlikely to get the train too

Doesn't seem like you could put enough HE on a drone of that size to cause the explosion we've all seen. But maybe so...

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I don't think the Russians have a choice but to use it. Human life is cheap to them, they have to keep the supplies moving. They will use it till it fails.

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The road bridge is one thing. The rail is the real question. Did the fire weaken the span enough that they can't use it or repair it quickly? Even if they can use the road, Russia sucks at moving supplied by road. Without a rail connection, about all they can use that bridge for is for people (soldiers and civilians) to evacuate.

Waffledynamics said:

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Video of the consequences of night strikes on the railway junction in Ilovaisk, Donetsk region
/4 pic.twitter.com/ze8np6pnSk

— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) October 8, 2022

Simultaneously, to the destruction of the Kerch rail bridge the rail tracks of Ilovaisk have been target. The damage seems to be extensive. #Ilovaisk #Donetsk #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/OCPFLLNFU2

— (((Tendar))) (@Tendar) October 8, 2022

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The piece of frag shown at the very end there definitely came from the U.S. made weapon.

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Interesting. That was a huge fire going on the rail line. Not sure I'd trust throwing a train on it

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Same. Would they be able to replace all the fire affected rail this quickly? Or would they be affected at all? I'm assuming that rails are hot rolled steel so any damage would be dimensional due to distortion from the heat. Would think a derailment would be a worse look than not being able to bring it back online quickly would be.

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They can probably replace the rail. As to the span, it's probably damaged but not broken. They'll live with it because they have to. If there was a train parked on it already, pretty sure they won't see a collapse if they just go slow. That said, it could collapse at any point street repeated uses and stresses.

The second road deck may be fine. Seems damaged, but usable. I would think twice about running anything carrying an armored vehicle over it though

Russia runs the first test train across the #CrimeanBridge after a day of repairs and fire fighting pic.twitter.com/P3MimkDD7v

— D.Emery (@DemeryUK) October 8, 2022

That can't be true, can it?

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Russia runs the first test train across the #CrimeanBridge after a day of repairs and fire fighting pic.twitter.com/P3MimkDD7v

— D.Emery (@DemeryUK) October 8, 2022

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LOL.

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That can't be true, can it?

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Sunset was just 2 hours ago. That would be really quick turnaround on the video. Color me skeptical.

Do rail bridges use rock/gravel like built up tracks?

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Do rail bridges use rock/gravel like built up tracks?

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Not that I'm familiar with.

People on Twitter suspect that video is fake.

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aggiehawg said:

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That can't be true, can it?

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Sunset was just 2 hours ago. That would be really quick turnaround on the video. Color me skeptical.

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My understanding is that there are two rail tracks but not sure how far apart they are. But if the girders supporting both are damaged, can't see how that would be possible.

Are we saying that the rooskis would lie about something like this? Say it isn't so...

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Do rail bridges use rock/gravel like built up tracks?

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Yes, it appears so.



Russian Link

Question? How did they get the damaged train off of the track that fast?

aggiehawg said:

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That can't be true, can it?

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Maybe if the engineer is forced to drive the train over the damaged section at gunpoint.