The Tesla Cybertruck May Have Found Its True Calling: Target Practice

Few vehicles inspire stronger opinions than Tesla Cybertruck. Drivers and passers -by love or hate brilliant and sharp trucks, many of which were vandalized and even fired with paintball cannons in reaction against Tesla CEO and former Trump administration staff, Elon Musk.

So, this one for you, Cybertruck Haters: the Air Force recently had 33 vehicles, including two cybertrucks, delivered to the range of White Sands missiles in the New Mexico, with plans to shoot them.

The documents identified for the first time by TWZ show that the Air Force seeks to test the sustainability of the cybertruck, given its makeup and its unique characteristics, for the tests of training tests for target vehicles.

Air Force representatives and Tesla did not immediately respond to requests for comments.

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Since the Cybertruck announcement, Tesla has presented it as difficult to damage. Musk described the vehicle as “bullets” and said that he would survive an apocalypse. In a sadly famous launch event in 2019, Musk challenged a colleague to throw steel balls at the truck windows, saying that they would not break. They did it.

Cybertruck worked better in subsequent tests. In 2024, Tesla published a YouTube video where the truck held the gunshots in a Tommy pistol, a pistol and a hunting rifle.

Due to the hard exterior structure of Cybertruck, made of a proprietary stainless steel alloy, it is expected that vehicles can be used by an enemy. Air Force documents note that the truck “does not receive the normal extent of damage expected during the major impact”.

And this wait is supported by certain evidence. In 2024, Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, published a video of a cybertruck with a machine gun mounted on it, saying that she had been sent to the front lines of the Russian war in Ukraine.

The planned military tests will reflect these potential situations of the real world in a live shooting test. We do not know exactly what weapons the Air Force plans to light the cybertrucks, but probably all they have who can make a breach there.

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The other vehicles chosen for tests include vans, SUVs and sedans. But only cybertrucks were called specifically by model and creator name.