- The US Air Force wants to buy two cybertrucks to use them as rocket targets. The trucks do not have to run, but the body, glass and mirror must be intact.
While consumers lose interest in Tesla CyberruckThe armed forces are looking for a few.
The war zoneA news site that covers the defense industry, Report Air Force plans to buy two cybertrucks to use as goals for “live rocket fire tests”. The tests are to take place in the White Sands Raksie Range (WSMR) in New Mexico (an army base that the Air Force also uses).
When the armed forces collect vehicles to chase them up, they usually do not look for specific brands. And while the Trump administration and the CEO of Tesla, Elon Musk, have exchanged social media on social media in the past few months, this exception of brand names is more due to the expected actions of the nation’s enemies.
“In the operating theater it is probably the type of vehicles used by the enemy that can pass to Tesla Cyberrucks As it was found that they do not receive the normal extent of damage that is expected in the event of great effects, ”wrote the Air Force in A Justification document Support of the order. “Tests have to reflect situations in the real world. The intention of the training is to prepare the units for operations by simulating scenarios as precisely as possible in real situations.”
The Air Force finds that the trucks you want to buy do not have to run, but the body, the glass and the mirror must be intact, with little or no harm. It is a safe bet that officials will not buy them from the company.
Not many people are nowadays. Tesla Sold only 4,300 A decrease of 51%of the trucks in the second quarter of the year. Last year Tesla sold only 39,000 vehicles, a number that is unlikely this year.
In addition to the cybertrucks, the Air Force is looking for 31 other cars, including limousines, bongo trucks, pickups and SUVs that are probably blown up.
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