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U.S Air Force buys cyber trucks as target practice

www.businessinsider.com

The Air Force wants Cybertrucks for target practice because they may start showing up on the battlefield

Idk why the Air Force thinks it's durable

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This seems like a back door bailout.
- That and looks like they're trying to give the cyber truck image a facelift
  
  Read between the lines. They're practicing targeting a cybertruck from the air. They bought a spare to test adjustments and repeatability. Somewhere there's a well armed cybertruck owner sweating bullets.
Yeah, let's pretend this isn't somehow a kickback for Elon in disguise.
- Feels like blatant marketing to me.
- It's two vehicles.
  
  Yeah, 4 million should cover it.
They bought two. Hardly an Elon bail out.
- Sounds like they bought them to study their radar and thermal signatures to have the data for possible future targeting and tracking purposes.
  
  A certain Chechnyan comes to mind though I'm sure there are others.
Heres how to disable a cyber truck: hit the remote kill switch at tesla HQ.
Solved it you fucking morons. You absolute idiots.
Logically speaking, at least someone was able to find some use for these.
That's a good use of my money.
Never thought I'd get a chance to use that gif. xD
Yea I am gonna bet Elon gave them lots of money to get them to take two of his trucks and say this so that red necks with fragile masculinities believe that they can find meaning in life by buying a truck which they think is battlefield material. Well they will (re)realise their stupidy once side panels start falling off.
This clickbait bullshit keeps getting shared.
I hope they take the batteries out?
- They did. The article states that they ordered them without batteries and only in towable condition.
  
  and only in towable condition.
  This much was implied by the brand name.
  
  Thanks for doing the dirty work
- I don't.
lol at this bullshit.
our country is a goddamn joke now.
Vehicles in general are pretty durable, vehicles getting damaged is generally the vehicle hitting something rather than something hitting it.
I had the opportunity to smash a car up with a sledgehammer once (weird fundraiser), and i think i hurt my hands more than the car.
Edit: also, not a bad idea for the military to know where to shoot these things in case some dumbass tries to run the gate at a base in one.
- It's weird how I think of cars as "not durable" by growing up around fire departments.
  But I also use that as description on how equipment for fire depts needs to be made as this is the group that has competitions like "Who can cut a car in half the fastest" for training.
I don't think they think it's durable. I think the loose body panels make for a more spectacular image when hit with a missle. Diffusion of blast energy and all that.
Wouldn't this mean they are like tanks but cheaper? 💀
They know the car of choice for the enemies of the future (present). It pays to be prepared.

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