Idk why the Air Force thinks it's durable

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[–] 42 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

They bought two. Hardly an Elon bail out.

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  • [–] 119 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    This seems like a back door bailout.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    They are buying two non-functional Cybertrucks. It's pretty standard to do weapons testing on non-functional vehicles.

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  • [–] 80 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    With the cybertruck, “nonfunctional” could just mean it rolled off the lot five minutes ago.

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  • [–] [S] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    My problem with this is the depiction of the cybertruck as some capable military vehicle vs any other conventional truck

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They bought 33 vehicles. Two of them are cybertrucks. Kind of feels like you might be blowing this way out of proportion, just like the headline is.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Yeah honestly the idea that they are considering cyber trucks to be possible future hostile vehicles seems like a good thing to me considering most people who bought them would be supporting ICE in Civil War II electric boogaloo

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's also just a fairly unique vehicle in terms of its construction, so they'd be stupid not to test how their weapons work against it. Even if you're 99% sure that Elon is full of shit with all his "Apocalypse proof" nonsense, you test for that 1% just to be safe. This is all completely routine stuff.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Cybertrucks are kind of "bulletproof" so they are good for testing. They may be absolute garbage in almost every metric, but the parts that really matter for that kind of testing are more durable than the majority of consumer vehicles.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That and looks like they're trying to give the cyber truck image a facelift

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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    [–] 55 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Yeah, let's pretend this isn't somehow a kickback for Elon in disguise.

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    Yeah, 4 million should cover it.

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    They are insinuating that they paid $4 million for two cyber trucks

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because Trump is nothing but a giant grift.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Sure, but the military isn't going to pay more than they have to. The less they spend on trucks, the more they have for things that go boom. And nonfunctioning cybertrucks are likely going to cost under 20k each. (Probably less than the munitions being tested on them).

    So while I appreciate the cynicism and generally agree, I don't think that's what's going on here.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Heres how to disable a cyber truck: hit the remote kill switch at tesla HQ.

    Solved it you fucking morons. You absolute idiots.

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Logically speaking, at least someone was able to find some use for these.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Never thought I'd get a chance to use that gif. xD

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    That's a good use of my money.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    This clickbait bullshit keeps getting shared.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Wouldn't this mean they are like tanks but cheaper? 💀

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They know the car of choice for the enemies of the future (present). It pays to be prepared.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    lol at this bullshit.

    our country is a goddamn joke now.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    They bought two non-functional Cybertrucks. It’s pretty standard to do weapons testing on non-functional vehicles.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    lol if you think the army saying this about these vehicles is normal:

    It said the Tesla pickups were "likely" to start appearing on the battlefield. It added that they don't "receive the normal extent of damage expected upon major impact."

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