The U.S. Air Force has decided that Tesla’s Cybertruck will make good target practice. The military agency has posted documents on a government contracting website stating that it is looking to buy two of the vehicles for “live missile fire testing.”
The Cybertrucks are part of a larger order of 33 vehicles that will also be tested at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. In a separate document justifying the inclusion of Cybertrucks in the purchase, the agency stated that it expects U.S. adversaries may begin using these vehicles on battlefields. So of course it wants to know how best to destroy them.
“In the operating theatre it is likely the type of vehicles used by the enemy may transition to Tesla Cybertrucks as they have been found not to receive the normal extent of damage expected upon major impact,” the document states. The vehicles don’t need to be functional, just towable, and they must have their batteries removed.
