U.s. Air Force Finally Finds A Good Use For Tesla Cybertrucks: Target Practice

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Tesla is beautiful desperate to find buyers for its flopping Cybertruck, but I uncertainty Elon Musk's company had this news connected its bingo card: nan U.S. Air Force is looking for 2 Cybertrucks to shoot, and they ain't talking astir photos. According to authorities contracting documents posted online yesterday, nan Air Force is looking "for Towable Target Vehicles to beryllium utilized arsenic targets for unrecorded rocket occurrence testing."

The Air Force is looking for respective different conveyance types for this testing, but nan Cybertruck is nan only circumstantial make and exemplary that's requested. Its justification for specifically soliciting Cybertrucks is not because of their nauseating optics, but owed to nan truck's "aggressively angular and futuristic creation paired pinch its unpainted stainless alloy exoskeleton," and Tesla's "bulletproof" trading claims. The Air Force is performing these tests arsenic it believes it's apt that enemies whitethorn modulation to utilizing Cybertrucks because "they person been recovered not to person nan normal grade of harm expected upon awesome impact." It besides says extended net searches person recovered nan Cybertruck's 48-volt electrical architecture is much precocious than each rivals.

In bid to beryllium viable for nan target conveyance training formation trial events, nan Cybertrucks don't request to beryllium operational, but they request to person each solid and mirrors intact, and each wheels request to rotation pinch usable tires. The Cybertrucks' 1,600-pound batteries must beryllium removed, and each of their fluids must to beryllium drained to meet nan Air Force's needs.

It shouldn't beryllium excessively difficult to find non-operational Cybertrucks without awesome damage, since Cybertrucks person proven to beryllium amazingly vulnerable successful nan existent world. Cybertrucks person bricked themselves aft obstacles for illustration car washes, and developed framework cracks and snapped suspension mounts after hitting potholes.

Beyond nan 2 Tesla Cybertrucks, nan Air Force is besides looking for six achromatic sedans, six achromatic sedans, six bluish aliases greenish sedans, 5 SUVs, 5 trucks, and possibly weirdest of all, 3 kei trucks which nan authorities refers to arsenic "Bongos" for akin testing. What did kei trucks ever do to merit specified a fate, and why couldn't each 33 target believe vehicles beryllium Cybertrucks?