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Ukraine may destroy the Kerch Strait bridge to Crimea. (Original Post) roamer65 Apr 2022 OP
You don't have to destroy the whole bridge COL Mustard Apr 2022 #1
Could the Russians quickly repair it, if only lightly damaged? Irish_Dem Apr 2022 #3
Seems like frogmen in small boats could do it EX500rider Apr 2022 #2
Legend has it that in the 12th century the invading Vikings brought down London Bridge this way. Irish_Dem Apr 2022 #4
Well, sort of; early 11th century, and it was Norwegians helping the English king regain control muriel_volestrangler Apr 2022 #6
Slava Ukraini! fierywoman Apr 2022 #5

EX500rider

(10,849 posts)
2. Seems like frogmen in small boats could do it
Thu Apr 21, 2022, 05:01 PM
Apr 2022

Place a bunch of kinetic penetrators around the columns, limpet mines, anti-tanks mines, etc, blow a couple of them and bring down a section.

Irish_Dem

(47,131 posts)
4. Legend has it that in the 12th century the invading Vikings brought down London Bridge this way.
Thu Apr 21, 2022, 05:55 PM
Apr 2022

I don't mean the modern weaponry, but the same idea.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
6. Well, sort of; early 11th century, and it was Norwegians helping the English king regain control
Thu Apr 21, 2022, 08:36 PM
Apr 2022

from the Danish king Cnut (which I suppose makes it more appropriate for the Ukrainian situation):

So Æthelred first sought to recapture London from Anglo-Scandinavian forces loyal to Cnut. The recapture of London apparently involved the ships of Óláfr Haraldsson another Norwegian adventurer.
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According to Snorri Sturluson (1178/9–1241), the Icelandic historian, Óláfr was one of Æthelred’s army commanders, who volunteered to lead his ships in a daring attack on London Bridge. Snorri states that this attack was only undertaken to help Æthelred regain his throne, which places it after Swein’s death and before Æthelred’s own death in 1016. The attack on the bridge in 1014 involved sailing westwards upstream to the defended timber bridge, fixing ropes and grappling irons to it, then sailing downstream again and pulling down or badly damaging the superstructure of the bridge and compelling its defenders to surrender London to Æthelred’s forces (Fig. 1). Next, Æthelred’s forces defeated the Scandinavians and their allies in Lindsey, forcing Cnut into exile. According to Snorri, Óláfr then helped Æthelred recover Canterbury and other territories and he may have remained in England until 1016, after which he probably went raiding in western Europe.

https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-457-1/dissemination/pdf/vol10/vol10_12/10_12_328_333.pdf
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