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

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    Explain something to me, please, because I am unfamiliar with the locale. The bridge appears to have used a solid concrete strut and steel structure. The ship struck it at (reportedly) 15 kmh. And that was enough to collapse the whole thing. But how? There was a case in USSR of a ship hitting a bridge, and while the circumstances of the crash were different, the bridge itself is much smaller, yet stands to this day.

    So why did it fold so (seemingly) easily?

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      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.

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      A pretty substantial amount of the bridge is still standing, it was the center bit that went down

      Also, that ship in the USSR that hit the bridge just hit the span, not the pier. “The span cut the deck house and the cinema hall”. The pier is in many ways more fragile, and also more important.

      But to answer your question, the Francis Scott Key bridge was structurally deficient. It also didn’t have many anti-ship defenses (like dolphins), unlike other bridges. To add on to that, the MV Dali (and most modern container ships) is really heavy, and therefore had a lot of energy, almost all of which got transferred into the bridge. Not many bridges can survive a head-on with a container ship.

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      Burguer Americans say some shit like “anyone can build a bridge that stands, but only an engineer can build a bridge that barely stands”. Cheaper is better right?

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        Honestly when I was in engineering school we where taught that we where suposed to build things that where JUST about to break (With the 10% safety margin inclided for code complance when applicable) and anything else would be wasteful over engineering

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      Well it directly hit the column, and this was a fully loaded container ship. I don’t think any bridge would’ve survived that.

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        Hmm maybe I’m underestimating the size and mass of the ship in question

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      Keep in mind that the propaganda win here isn’t that the bridge didn’t survive being hit by a ship. It’s that the work safety conditions, and this is on record the company that ran the port or the ship, I can’t remember, the work conditions were so poor and the safety so poor and people so overworked that something like this was allowed to happen. And you tie that back in with the trained derailment and the continued overworking of the proletariat.

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      The Soviet ship was about 4000 tons displacement, the Mv Dali was 150,000 tons displacement. Ships have gotten massive over the last few decades so it’s possible that the Baltimore bridge could have remained standing after being hit by an older, smaller, ship like the Soviet one.