Overview

• The Air Force Test Center solicited offers to acquire two Tesla Cybertrucks as target vehicles for live missile fire testing at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
• Those Cybertrucks are part of a broader order of 33 vehicles supporting U.S. Special Operations Command’s Stand Off Precision Guided Munitions program.
• A sole-source justification cites the Cybertruck’s unpainted stainless steel exoskeleton and 48-volt electrical architecture for exceptional impact resistance.
• Contract requirements specify the trucks need not be operational but must be towable with intact bodies, glass, mirrors, drained fluids and removed batteries.
• Military planners aim to simulate realistic battlefield threats by testing munitions against vehicles that adversaries may adopt in future conflicts.