theories on Crimean bridge explosion [View all]

[sciencescience]

(reasons why not)

truck bomb:
- would have to be driven through Russia (it was going towards Crimea)
- Russia has scanners for trucks going across the Crimean bridge
- would have to knowingly kill the civilian driver
- some analysis on Twitter shows the bridge was lifted up by an explosion from below, and there is no crater/curve seen in the remaining visible road pieces from an above ground explosion

missile:
- Ukraine doesn't publicly have missiles with that range from land
- ATACMS doesn't have a big enough warhead for that type of explosion
- a missile would have had to escape radar detection and no anti missile defenses fired
- a missile big enough to carry that amount of explosives could be seen with the naked eye

boat/semi-submersible/submarine:
- would have been seen by radar or someone
- one frame before the explosions shows a ball of light above the bridge