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Still, within the top 15 on the Atlantic. It remains to be seen how much spare capacity other ports and their supporting railroads have. The collapse looks like it also strands a significant US Coast Guard yard. I-695 appears to be a significant leg of the city's ring road.
Ya, I don't know how far you ca go in an open economy towards hardening trade-critical infrastructure and still keep it profitable. Blockading harbours is as old as sail.
I mean the simplest thing would have been to build barrier islands protecting soft points like the bridge pylons, in case of a wayward ship like this.
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I mean the simplest thing would have been to build barrier islands protecting soft points like the bridge pylons, in case of a wayward ship like this.
This bridge was built way before current cargo ships reached their current size, and while the Americas don’t get the largest ships, the new Panamax ships are still a sight to behold.
Baltimore's Key Bridge may have lacked collision protective measures for modern cargo ships: Experts
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge partially collapsed early Tuesday morning after a massive cargo ship collided with one of the bridge's support columns.
Yes. Some bridges have been upgrades with caissons or 'rock islands' protecting the piers. In the short term, I'll bet harbour tug operators get busier as port authorities demand that ships be under tug escort until clear of the harbour.I mean the simplest thing would have been to build barrier islands protecting soft points like the bridge pylons, in case of a wayward ship like this.
This bridge was built way before current cargo ships reached their current size, and while the Americas don’t get the largest ships, the new Panamax ships are still a sight to behold.
Baltimore's Key Bridge may have lacked collision protective measures for modern cargo ships: Experts
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge partially collapsed early Tuesday morning after a massive cargo ship collided with one of the bridge's support columns.
Eventually that cursed thing will tumble into the sea and we can celebrate.
Biden and the USA has the tools to permanently take out the Kerch bridge, namely the ATACMS but they won't give it to Ukraine, at least not yet.
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That or the German Taurus missles, but Scholz is being a small cat about handing them over.Biden and the USA has the tools to permanently take out the Kerch bridge, namely the ATACMS but they won't give it to Ukraine, at least not yet.
Apparently the the USA has sent the earlier M39 APAM (Anti-Personnel/Anti-Materiel) missile to Ukraine, which are an older version of the ATACMS. The APAM missiles can travel 100 miles and carry warheads containing hundreds of cluster bomblets. Which is all good, but Ukraine needs the long range, bridge-busting M48 or M57 variants, with ranges up to 300 km and a solid warhead. These are not being offered by Biden, yet.
Ukraine’s New ATACMS Missiles Aren’t Bridge-Killers. Not Yet, At Least.
The M48 version replaces the M39A1’s 950 submunitions with a single 500-pound penetrating warhead. Where the M39 is an area weapon, the M48 is a bridge-killer.
The Sunshine Skyway bridge has some parallels in its replacement of an older bridge destroyed by a ship collision + its ample pier protection as a result.
