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Granted a daisy cutter will disable the bridge, and "might" even bring down one of the towers, but it would not cut one of the cables. How many terrorists have you ever heard of obtaining a daisy cutter?
Secondly, how long do you think it would take for acid to cut through 24.5 inches of high strength steel?
Thermite explosives will cut the cable, but even so there are problems, which I shall not detail.

With the easy availability of composites it would not be hard to design and manufacture ME163 (except use solid rocket engine?) replicas to be used as manned kamikaze interceptors. For quick assembly fold down and lock wings. The whole thing including launch ramp would fit in a semi trailer.

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"How many terrorists have you ever heard of obtaining a daisy cutter?"

I wrote that a daisy cutter contains only 7 1/2 tons HE (which, btw, is less than the "way more than 10 tons" you pontificated on in your claim. You changed the subj and avoided addressing the ACTUAL point.

"how long do you think it would take for acid to cut through 24.5 inches "

using 100% nitric, it would eat thru enough corrosion and wire rope to make it separate due to the tension on it very quickly.....wire rope has lots and lots of surface and wonderful capillary action to distribute liquid. It is nothing at all like a single strand 24 1/2" diameter. My WAG would be a few minutes, max.

"Thermite explosives will cut the cable, but even so there are problems, which I shall not detail."

Thats because you're full of it. I said "genuine incendiaries".