Tesla Cybertruck: US Army buys cars for shooting exercises

There he is finally the government order. Whenever a company gets an order from the US Army, the health insurers usually ring. During his short time in the inner circle of American politics, Elon Musk probably hoped that – but certainly not as it actually happened now.

The military specialist magazine “” reports that the US Airforce wants to order two cybertrucks. The trucks are part of a larger order of a total of 33 vehicles, which the so -called Airforce Test Center would like. Delivery is to be carried out on the site of the White Sands Missile Range in the US state of New Mexico-where the Army runs shooting exercises.

While 31 of the 33 cars in the order are not named more precisely, the two cybertrucks are explicitly mentioned. There is also a reason. It shows that you want the cybertrucks because they are damaged differently than conventional cars.

It is said: “In the area of application, it is likely that the enemy could switch to Tesla cybertrucks, since it was found that they have not been determined in the event of severe impacts. The tests have to imitate real situations. The aim of the training is to prepare the units for missions by simulating scenarios that come as close to the real circumstances.”

The army came to this assessment in studies that showed “that the aggressive, cantile and futuristic design of the cyber truck, combined with its unpainted stainless steel-exoskeleton body, clearly distinguishes it from competitors, which are usually lacquered steel or aluminum body”.

As soon as delivered, the cars are part of the “Stand-Off Precision Guided ammunition” program (SOPGM, in German: “Program for precision-led ammunition for use from distance”) of the US Special Operations Command. The tests of this unit include the shelling with several air-supported precision weapons, including Hellfire rockets and so-called “small diameter bomb”, ie small bombs.

So far, cybertrucks on the fronts of the currently raging wars have been a rare sight – but it is at least theoretically. If you believe Chechen Propaganda, none other than “Putin’s bloodhound” Ramsan Kadyrov has equipped a few cyber trucks with weapons and sent to the front to Ukraine. The acceptance of the US Army is therefore not completely fictitious.

However, the conclusion of the Putin ally was devastating. He described the cybertrucks for use on the front as “useless”. In general, the cybertruck has a hard time. Since the market launch, Tesla has only been able to sell around 50,000 vehicles and runs numerous problems with the vehicle afterwards.

The claim that the cyberruck is “bulletproof” is also not entirely true. The stainless steel actually stops slow small caliber, but with the right weapons you can easily sift the body.

However, there are companies that use the cybertruck as the basis for real armored vehicles, for example. However, it remains to be seen whether it becomes a real market. On the remote fronts of this world, charging stations are a rare asset, which may generally make electric cars uninteresting for use.

In addition, the US Army soon knows how to take the vehicles most effectively under fire.