[tang-soo]

They were thawed. There’s a fairly infamous story of the Brits reaching out to advice on the test methodology. They kept destroying planes and couldn’t figure out what they had designed wrong. The instructions they had for the test didn’t tell them to thaw the birds so they were basically sending rocks at the plane instead of bird strike equivalents.

I had forgotten that story but remember that now. How funny. LOL. I wish there was video.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

...didn’t tell them to thaw the birds so they were basically sending rocks at the plane instead of bird strike equivalents.

Velocities we were using for tests (BONE was originally a low-altitude high speed penetrator) were high enough I don't know how much difference frozen/fresh would make.

I know there were pictures but.....well, they're likely still classified to keep PETA off their case.