21 tons of hexane were placed in layers of packaging film that were transported by the truck - SBU disclosed the details of the first detonation of the Crimean Bridge on October 8, 2022.
21 tons of hexane were placed in layers of packaging film that were transported by the truck - SBU disclosed the details of the first detonation of the Crimean Bridge on October 8, 2022.
Wait so was that a suicide bombing?
At the time it was suggested an unwitting driver was used, thus the need to make it look like normal cargo. Probably a really pro-Russian one, because why not, they aren't hard to find.
Ingenious
Hexane? How would that be explosive? I'd expect it to just make a big fire.
The vapors of hexane are highly explosive. There have been several industrial accidents caused by them.
All they had to do was to have the tanks leak a small amount to build up vapors in the back of the truck. Then trigger a small ignition source to ignite them.
This would cause the initial blast and light all the liquid on fire. The high heat generated by the fire damaged the bridge further.
It's like gasoline, basically. Actually, there's a lot of it in gasoline. The thing is it's tricky getting just the right fuel-air mix for something like that to blow up. I wonder if there was additional high explosive inside to disperse it first.
Somebody claimed that it wasn't hexane, but hexogen.
Yeah I assumed this is just a mistranslation or a mixup, since hexogen and hexane do sound similar. For those of you not in the know, hexogen is also known as cyclonite or RDX and it's what makes eg. C4 or Semtex go boom, while hexane is a very boring (in comparison) organic compound that doesn't go boom nearly as much.
Ahhh! So RDX, if someone else hasn't heard the name. Yeah, that makes sense. I bet it was a mistranslation.
Fuel air bomb. Similar this one with methane but it will work with any flammable vapour.
http://www.dynamicscience.com.au/tester/solutions1/chemistry/collisiontheory.htm