This is but one of many references I have on the subject. This come comes closest to confirming the use of PMP sections, but the accompanying photo frustratingly shows a different type in use.
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Those look like a GSP, they were built as left and right units to be operated in pairs.
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@18bravo Frenchy posted a video of what looks like a captured pmp bridge that Israel had on display.
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The bridge in this image still doesn’t look like a GSP to me.
I get the impression of standard dumb bridging pontoons with decking laid across.
This bridge is not the same as the one I linked to above
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@Uncle-Heavy you’re probably correct
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Thank you Robin!
Your post has cost me 130 bucks 
Angel
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Please offer my sincerest condoleances to your wallet 
I am afraid of visiting that site, it just keeps getting more and more expensive with every visit,
I can hear my wallet screaming in panic whenever I think about all those kits and conversions …
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Looks like a PMP bridge to me…
H.P.
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Indeed.
But this one is not a PMP and it isn’t a GSP either.
Still trying to figure out what it was.
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@Frenchy that looks more of a pmp but only because it doesn’t have supporting craft with it. It could be that it’s a narrower crossing and doesn’t require them.
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Guess it could be a LPP (Light Pontoon Park) bridge. Here’s a GAZ-63 LPP pontoon carrier :
H.P.
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The supporting craft (bridging boats) are needed for most floating bridges/ferries.
The amount of boats needed and when or for how long they are needed depends on the body of water, the current and the width. Boats are also needed to move things around.
The PMP, which consists of non-powered pontoons, definitely needs boats to get in position and for assembly/disassembly. Hand paddling 200 meters of bridge is not an easy task, especially if there is wind and/or current.
Ferries/bridges like the GSP-55 can move on their own but might need assistance if the current is strong.
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The vertical ribbing on the pontoon sides definitely look like the ribbing in that image.
Thanks Frenchy!
This text mentions LPP bridge:
" Starting in the afternoon, IAF F-4s and A-4s strike the Egyptian bridges, destroying 7 bridges out of 11. Egyptian tank crossing is almost halted for at least 24 hours in the 3rd field army sector, but the delay is less significant for the 2nd field army, since many of its tanks have already crossed. In addition to pontoon bridges (PMP, TPP, LPP, Uniflote), Egyptian AFVs cross by GSP ferries, pontoon (TPP, Uniflote) barges and by their own amphibious capability (BMP-1, BTR-50/OT-62, BRDM-2, PT-76). Soft-skins cross also on K-61 and PTS amphibious transport vehicles. As for the bridges, the Egyptians are able to repair them rather quickly, by replacing the blown-up pontoons with new ones."
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Same as in the article in Hebrew I mentionned before. According to the author, the Egyptians had received at least one LPP bridge…There’s even a picture of it
H.P.
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Same picture but a lot better quality 
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ZiL-157 trucks were used as well to carry LPP-related stuff
and the pictured tug boats could be BMK-130’s
H.P.
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Those boats …
7,85 metres long, 100 horsepower and a big propeller
http://russianships.info/eng/support/type_bmk130.htm
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If it took Frenchy four days to find it, it didn’t want to be found easily. 
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Or maybe I’m just getting old…
H.P.
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