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Wow that is a wild fucking weapon.
But craziness aside, is that the best use of a HIMARS? It doesn't look like it took much out other than the bridge, and I have to imagine they have other ordinance that can take out a temporary pontoon bridge?
Edit: If thats all they had within range then sure, that's all they had. I think I'm just surprised they didn't use something else if they had it?
Would guess they are trying to puncture whatever keeps the pontoons afloat. I know nothing about the bridge pontoons though, but seen plenty of helicopters with lots of holes in them