[Romulus]

If you can ram the bridge pier with a gigantic container ship, why would you even need explosives?

[blackdog]

What's the impact force of 400,000 tonnes at 10KTS? Against a stationary object.....

Any freeper engineers out there?

I just do electrical calculations and conduit bends.

[kiryandil]

you wrote: “If you can ram the bridge pier with a gigantic container ship, why would you even need explosives?”

When they were moving the USS New Jersey [BB-62] last week, I noticed that a couple of the moored container ships were
bigger than the battleship.

Class and type Iowa-class battleship [USS New Jersey BB-62]
Displacement
49,657 long tons (50,454 t) standard (1943)
58,132 long tons (59,065 t) full load (1943)[4]
60,000 long tons (61,000 t) full load (1968)[5]

Length 887 ft 7 in (270.54 m)
Beam 108 ft 1.375 in (32.95333 m)

Class and type Neopanamax container ship [MV Dali]
Tonnage
95,128 GT
52,150 NT
116,851 DWT

Length 984 ft 0 in (299.92 m)
Beam 158 ft 2 in (48.2 m)