The US Air Force wants to test blowing up Cybertrucks because 'it is likely the type of vehicles used by the enemy may transition to Tesla Cyber trucks'
cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/137948
https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/the-us-air-force-wants-to-test-blowing-up-cybertrucks-because-it-is-likely-the-type-of-vehicles-used-by-the-enemy-may-transition-to-tesla-cyber-trucks/Open linkView original on feddit.org204
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This is 100% initiated by Elon to sell trucks to the airforce and as a bonus project an image that the cybertruck is viable for something like that. It laughably isn't and can also easily be tracked. Off road isn't really possible either from what I gathered.
Hard to think of a worse vehicle for that purpose actually.
it is a perfectly viable strategy to get one's enemies to buy that flaming rubbish bin Elon calls a truck.
He's probably motivated by greed, but low key, it's a brilliant strategy.
Oh. wait. he wants our airforce to buy them? shit.
Car no fly. Car go road
No road. Car goes boom.
The purchase order is for (2) CyberTrucks, among a group of 33 vehicles total. Here is thought they found a way to ease the glut in the used market...
It also has a tiny range compared to like the Silverado EV or Hummer.
It’s been proven to be laughably easy to break in various ways.
A 50 cal round will go right through it and into the battery. Then it’s just about being patient while it self immolates.
"How did it go?" "We fired the cannon and the vehicle exploded, and it's still burning now." "So the test was a success?" "Actually, we missed. It just did that."
Was it raining, perchance?
wat
I'm the coming civil war, they believe the MAGA Army will use Cybertrucks, so it's best to prepare a defence against them.
As long as you keep the program cheap by only buying a few and not spending to many man hours, you can come out ahead. Either way, it's an American car, money comes back to our economy.
Step 1: Sell cybertrucks to terrorists.
Yeah weird sentence. It reads as stating fact about the subject of the sentence, the cyber truck - referred to by “it” but then continues to walk that back and say “may transition to”.
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And I do think that the enemies of your democracy are already the one buying those monstrosity
It's bullet resistant to like 9mm. Any rifle round goes straight through. This is just cronyism to boost sales for Elon.
Cough cough .338 lapua checking in.
Even 5.56 FMJ shot by a phone review YouTuber smoked clean through. https://youtu.be/VLV-4HMrAz0?t=509 Hell, in that same video, .17 HMR went through the outer panel with no issues.
Good video.
Tesla can’t even sell these dumpster coffins to all the Muskrats because nobody can afford them.
You can get like a 100 third hand Hiluxes for the price of one Cybertruck.
You will have more quality problems in one cybertruck than 100 Hiluxes.
Or Elmo just has a lot of overstock to spare because of his shenanigans and his fellow tecnofacists and investors are having our government buy them at top dollar to prop up the house of cards that is Tesla meme stock
The Air Force is buying 2 of them. 2. That's not going to save Tesla.
Who is Elmo?
ISIS: So we switch to cybertrucks then?
ISIS 2: Can't handle heat and sand.
Boko Haram: So we switch to cybertrucks?
BH 2: Can't handle water.
Cartels: So we switch to Cybertrucks?
Cartels 2: Toyotas are cheaper.
IDF: Cybertrucks?
IDF 2: Starving GaZa is cruel enough without torturing their eyes, too.
Edit: Ya'll Quieda: Cybertrucks?
Ya'll Quieda 2: Hell yeah! They piss off the libs!
Ya'll Quieda 3: But God Emperor Trump hates them now!
Ya'll Quieda 2: Trump hates them but the libs hate them??? I DUNNO WHAT TO DO???
Edit 2:
Russia: Cybertrucks?
Russia 2: Better than what we current---
Ukraine : Got one!!!
The military already know you can't do anything to stop a Hilux. They're just trying for better numbers in their testing now.
I feel like the IDF2 one is more like "the small bodies of starved palestinian children get stuck between the panels and are difficult to remove"
They're buying 2 (along with 31 other vehicles) to make sure that our bombs blow them up. They will, and that's all that's going to happen.
There are enough real issues rn that y'all really need to do better at avoiding these distractions...
The enemy probably will still use 1998 Toyota Hilux Trucks.
Not unless they intend to target a US city, though realistically their boot polishers would be the only ones in one of those steel caskets
Please explain your reasoning in great detail and at length. Go on. We'll wait.
What if a civil war breaks out and the army isn't on the side of the fascists?
I'm sure whatever the AF are intending to 'test' will work just fine on the few CTs that might still be operational six months hence, prior testing or not. We're talking about a car that can be stopped in its tracks by light snowfall or being left outside in mild rain. I'm no expert, but somehow I don't think a quick burst of 30 mm PGU-14/B armor-piercing incendiary rounds or a Hellfire missile will experience any issues.
Of course realistically this serves no purpose other than transferring some money from the DOD to Musk. But we can try to make up some slightly less depressing explanation...
What if aliens come by and fix everything, including assassinating the fascist with legal command of the military.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/30/military-veterans-remain-a-republican-group-backing-trump-over-harris-by-wide-margin/
That's a near supermajority of the veterans, including the dipshits who volunteered for Bush's Crusade. The troops are younger, dumber, and in the middle of professional standard bootlicker training.
There's enough sane vets to form a training core for the Army of the Republic in that civil war but it'll be nasty.
Well, your scenario is about as likely as Cybertrucks becoming the standard platform for technicals...
(My weaksauce scenario is unrealistic but still the best explanation for why the army would need to train shooting at Cybertrucks. Other than, you know, obvious grift.)
That's stupid. Terrorists are smarter than that generally speaking.
Someone blew themselves up outside Trump Tower in a Cyber Truck. Terrorists are, observably, not smarter than that.
Yes, they're preparing to fight MAGA idiots.
So we're at that stage of facism. fan-fucking-tastic
What about when the terrorists are home grown and appreciate the CEO's Heil Hitler?
wElL tHeN tHeY'rE pAtRiOtS nOt TeRrOrIsTs!
Don't they just need to drop some water on them and then they'll self immolate?
So the massive surplus of cybertrucks that have just been sitting for months are finally getting a buyer huh?
They're only buying 2 of them
No
How to get a tax write down in 3 easy steps by Elon Musk.
...what enemy?
Starving innocent palestinians. Obviously.
Their underage children obviously
The New Confederacy
It costs $100k, operating the vehicle as intended causes parts to fall off, rain will disable it, and it's incapable of leaving the pavement. Every one they managed to sell has been recalled. There's no way it dethrones the hilux, which is dependable, cheap, readily available, and well proven offroad, in combat. I know musk isn't too bright, particularly when his pride is involved, but he'd be a bigger fool than I believed him to be if he restarts production on the cybertruck. Frankly this reads like some backroom "advertising" deal with the Trump administration to con people into changing their minds about or, more likely, to drum up interest among nonstate actors so Tesla can make bulk sales to offload the current stock. "Ooh, the largest airforce in the world is concerned about this commercially available vehicle made out of glue and sheet aluminum with a built in explosive pack just waiting for a detonator!" Product costs money to hold and they're in the hole bad.
I don't think you need to test blowing them up. They've already lost if they're using them.
Is the US Air Force gonna start bombing racist MAGAt Cybertruck owners? I'm all for that.
That would be incredibility wild
Because Elon is actively selling his trucks to enemies of the US
Isn't that every country, including the US?
No. The smart ones have banned that trashwagon
We got too many of these fucking cyber trucks! What should we do with them? I don't know. Use Elon's cronie capitalism to force the US military to buy them and blow them up? Genius, promote that man. I was jokin.... Nevermind, blow those pieces of shit with some black hawks.
The enemy is already using them. Just not mostly for violence.
I thought these these were self-exploding.
and wait isn't the point of a Toyota technical that it can be made for $3.50 and runs on fossil fuels?
That's the game: try to blow them up before they self-detonate.
Nope, terrorists want reliable trucks
They going to haul a diesel generator around with them like that cybertruck arctic expedition?
I...can't think of a single munition in inventory that wouldn't obliterate a cybertruck. Like best case it reduces the effective frag radius from a Hydra 70 M151 10lb warhead slightly.
The air force doesn't really believe in overkill, they'll be popping these things with 500lb GBU-38 JDAMs even if all it takes is an air dropped water balloon.
https://www.armtecdefense.com/Portals/5/Documents/RR170-188_1023.pdf?ver=2024-09-11-165306-580
I had no idea that chaff cartridges were so small, thanks I learned something today. You'd probably want the impulse cartridge to take out a cybertruck, but a bunch of chaff might shortcircut something.
While it's not an offensive weapon, it could still light the truck on fire if the pilot trys hard enough.
These are just chaff. No incendiary component.
Yes. I have enough faith in fighter pilots ability to figure it out. The chaff rockets do burn pretty hot.
Well, you're not wrong, but fuck you
Idk. Maybe It's more about its unusual shape messing with a target identification software?
What form do I file to get all my tax money back?
Blow up cybertrucks sounds good to me :-)
Problem is they're buying them first
Don't these (haha) 'trucks' just blow up by themselves anyways?
PC gamer sucks dick. Why do you guys post slop sites that hijacks browsers??
Hijacks a browser how?
I saw a mauve one yesterday. Could they start there?