Russia built the entire Kerch bridge in 3 years. China would rebuild this bridge in 3 months.

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    3 months ago

    That Soviet ship is 4000 tons, while this one have 115000 tons. Also from what i understand the Soviet ship hit the bridge with fairly light superstructure which got cut off. While this one here just rammed one of the central bridge support with energy enough for it to just crumble and half of the brigde fallen straight down because it lost support and the other half following soon after because losing the balance. It’s clearly visible on this video, entire thing just crumpled like house of cards after the hit.

    For comparison, photo of that accident in Ulyanovsk, you can clearly see the difference.

    EDIT: i looked the Kuybyshev class of those ships and got a fun fact, out of 9 built, 7 are still in service and all under the old Soviet names.