Looking at the video, the cable looks ... fragile. Would a large bird landing on it do the same amount of damage?

Shouldn't it be thick, armoured cable, attached to a strong wire or something?

It is a standard outdoor coaxial cable. Perhaps it looks thin because you are mentally scaling to the size of smaller hobby drones.

Edit: The MK30 is 78 pounds, and about 6 feet diameter. Here is an image with a human for scale:

Shouldn't drones run by trillion-dollar companies not crash into stuff?

	▲	Aloisius 40 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Considering manned aircraft, including billion dollar military aircraft, crash into stuff? I'm not sure that's a realistic expectation.
	▲	dylan604 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		meh, that's what insurance is for, right?