The US Air Force is planning to buy two Cybertrucks with the sole intention of blowing them up.

The government is procuring two of the Tesla vehicles along with 31 other cars and trucks ‘to be used as targets for live missile fire testing’.

While the procurement list does have some specifications for the other vehicles, such as their colour and whether they have a sun roof, only the Cybertrucks and Mazda Bongo trucks are specifically asked for.

In its research the US Air Force suggested Cybertrucks didn’t ‘receive the normal extent of damage expected upon major impact’, citing its stainless steel exoskeleton and ’48V electrical architecture’.

In its justification for procuring the vehicles, published on a government website, the Air Force said: ‘In the operating theatre it is likely th

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