Idk why the Air Force thinks it’s durable

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

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

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      8 days ago

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

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        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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          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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            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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              I mean, sure, but they could also watch any YouTube vid of a guntuber actually shooting one. It’s nothing special.