The US Air Force buys Tesla Cybertrucks – not for missions, but as targets. Your robust stainless steel body is to be tested under fire on the White Sands Missile Range.
• US air weapon buys two Tesla cybertrucks for target exercises
• Selection due to stainless steel body, design and 48-volt system
• Symbol of the military relevance of civil vehicles
Unusual procurement plan of the US air weapon
Before Tesla’s futuristic cyber truck was able to get started on the civilian market, he has already awakened the U.S. military’s attention. As military times reports, the Air Force Test Center wants to procure two of these fully electric pickups – but not for use, but for target exercises with precision ammunition. The use on the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico is planned. According to The Verge, the cybertrucks are on a procurement list with a total of 33 vehicles, including limousines, SUVs and pickups.
Goal: realistic combat scenarios
The background to procurement is, according to military times, concern that future opponents could use cyberruck militarily. The official documents say: “Testing Needs to Mirror Real World Situes” – the training should map scenarios that could also occur in the event of an emergency. As Watson reports, the vehicles are used as target objects for high-precision weapons such as the AGM-114 Hellfire, the AGM-176 Griffin or the GBU-39/B. This ammunition is designed to switch off vehicles with minimal collateral damage.
Technical reasons for the selection
The cyberruck mainly stands out due to its unpainted stainless steel exoskeleton and the aggressive, angular design, which differs significantly from conventional vehicles, as it continues. This design is said to be particularly resistant and makes the pickup a potentially difficult goal from the military’s point of view. Military times also emphasizes the efficient 48-volt electro architecture, a technical feature that currently hardly offers a different series vehicle and which classifies the Air Force as unique.
Military interest vs. commercial failure
While the US Air Force now opens the cyberruck as a potential target object in its training program, it should originally celebrate completely different successes. Elon Musk Praise the model as “Armored personnel carrier from the future”. But apart from the military interest, the pickup in the civilian market is developing into a shop keeper: As The Verge reports, fewer than 50,000 copies have been sold so far and is therefore far from the 500,000 unit a year.
Symbolism and possible future
According to military times, the inclusion of the cyber truck in the training program is a signal that civil vehicles could increasingly play a role on modern battlefields. Such scenarios are no longer just theoretical, because commercially available models appear more and more in conflict zones. The Verge also speculates that the tests of the US air weapon could inspire other armed forces, for example to check Musk’s earlier claim that the cyberruck is capable of amphibians – i.e. briefly floating and thus can be used on both land and in water.
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