World : In NATO exercises, anti-tank missile intercepts a bird and detonates

An unusual incident occurred during the NATO exercises in Poland. An American anti-tank missile launched by the crew of the M2A2 Bradley IFV collided with a bird in flight. As a result of the collision, the ammunition detonated without reaching the target – the old decommissioned Soviet T-55 tank.

The incident was shot through the thermal imaging sight of the BGM-71 TOW anti-tank complex and was published on The Dead District’s Twitter account, where the media drew attention to it.

https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1254641931663130628

Large birds often collide with helicopters and get into the engines of take-off and landing airliners, observers say.

However, the birds have not yet been able to intercept anti-tank missiles.