[gaijin]

However, I did serve for many years as a demolitions expert on a Special Forces A-Team. I will say that suspension bridges are the toughest demolitions problem I have ever encountered

Couldn't they get a small emergency vehicle --say an ambulance-- reinforce the suspension, pack it with explosives, and drive NEXT to the main cable, and then detonate?

As long as the charge was adequate, it doesn't seem to me totally necessary that the "charges" be *physically attached* to the cable, although obviously that would be best (for their purposes).

Of course, the girth of the cable is quite extraordinary...

[GarySpFc]

Couldn't they get a small emergency vehicle --say an ambulance-- reinforce the suspension, pack it with explosives, and drive NEXT to the main cable, and then detonate?

You can detonate a trailer full of explosives next to one of the cables, and the bridge will still be standing. Mind you, I'm not saying it cannot be done, but that would take a tactical nuke, or slightly less.

As long as the charge was adequate, it doesn't seem to me totally necessary that the "charges" be *physically attached* to the cable, although obviously that would be best (for their purposes).

You have to cut the cables with the explosion, and that cannot be done without packing them around the main cable, and doing a couple of other things, which I will not reveal. Even then the results are going to be unknown.