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[Credit: Aerial photo the Russian Federation]
By James Grundvig, American Media Periscope
EXCLUSIVE – Shortly after midnight on Saturday, October 8, 2022, a bomb, or series of explosions, exploded across the viaducts on the Kerch Strait Bridge, connecting Crimea with Russia. The blasts, captured by multiple cameras on the bridge and from afar, showed a hot fireball flash with pyrotechnic sparks radiating across the deck and under the adjacent, taller railway span.
A towering column of black smoke rose above the clear dawn-orange sky in the aftermath. Later that morning, Russian military officers inspected the damaged parts of the bridge, including a few deck sections on the vehicle span toppled into the sea. By that afternoon, the one surviving lane on the highway span allowed official vehicles to cross, while the rail traffic resumed that night.
Over the weekend, the Washington Post and Forbes pumped out gross misinformation that a truck bomb blew up the bridge section, à la the false flag attacks that occurred under the World Trade Center in 1993 and outside the Murrah building in the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing. But, operationally, the forensic evidence shows that was not the case with the $3.6 billion, 12-mile-long Kerch Strait Bridge. Constructed from 2015 to 2018, connecting annexed Crimea with mainland Russia, the dual-purpose bridge, designed with the latest high-tech surveillance and security measures, appeared invincible from a typical lone wolf or terrorist attack.

[Credit: Roe.Ru/Eng a vehicle radiological detection system at Kerch Bridge]
Other online researchers suggested the blast was a result of a boat bomb. That, too, serves as a red herring, a misleading explanation. Two different bridge spans—railway and highway—built at two different elevations, separated by some 80 feet apart, were not hit by a bomb from either a single vehicle or watercraft. For the latter, none of the concrete bridge piers on either viaduct suffered damage.

[Credit: Aerial photo Russian Federation; marked up by James Grundvig]
These facts rule out both a truck bomb and a boat bomb; as such, they also eliminate the Ukraine Special Forces Service from being involved in the bridge strike.
So, what armaments exploded on the two parallel spans?
If neither the sea nor the land caused the blasts, then only an attack from the air can explain what took place.
As seen in the image below, the photograph taken after the attack discount the truck or boat bomb theories—especially when the aerial photo shows the hallmark of a few surgical strikes from the air. The blasts were so precise and well-timed that they blew up a chemical train in two different places on the railway span, with another strike on the highway bridge below.

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Having worked more than a decade in heavy highway construction across three states, along with the Federal Highway Administration and the NJ-NY Port Authority, if you want to topple a bridge, you take out its “legs” in its concrete piers. They all survived intact, with a couple of them blackened by the fire by the burning chemical train.
Since Russian President Vladimir Putin didn’t mention military aircraft in the strait area, like the U.S. aircraft seen after the Nord Stream II missile sabotage, in his Sunday address of the incident, then something else, something military, something was shot from the sky.

The ‘Rods of God’ Kinetic Bombardment
For decades, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) needed a non-explosive device to get around strict conventions and rules of engagement set forth by international law on space-based weapons. That is especially true when firing on a civilian target, such as the Kerch Strait Bridge. No military wants to be brought before a tribunal for war crimes.
In the 1990s, the U.S. DoD launched a black budget program called “Project Thor” to install such a weapon in space. The United States developed the “kinetic bombardment” system without carrying any explosive payload. The “Rods of God,” as the Thor system is mythically referred to, fires tungsten steel “telephone poles” at hypersonic speeds from orbit. With the great distance from space plus the mass and density of the rods shot at super-high velocity, the friction of the air ignites the “tungsten thunderbolt” into a fiery projectile upon reaching the earth.
Evidence indicates—especially from the leaked Russian infrared video—that the same Thor weapon system struck the Kerch Bridge at least three times. Once on the lower highway span, while the other two bolts hit the railway viaduct above.
The Thor tungsten projectiles can be fired down to earth either from a hypersonic aircraft or from a revolver-type firing space system. Military GPS and computer guidance system do the rest all the way down to its target.

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Above, the hypersonic aircraft. Below, the space-based revolver Thor system.

[Credit: Kerbal Space Program Forums]