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It can resist low powered 9mm bullets. It won't even come close to resisting a rifle round. So minimally more protection than any other vehicle.

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Maybe. BMW's new armored car is rated at Vehicle Resistance 6, which means it can withstand fire from an AK-47 among other things (such as lightly thrown metal balls):

https://www.bmw.com/en/innovation/armored-car-bulletproof-ca...

Mercedes does an armored car rated at VR10:

https://www.motor1.com/news/61225/mercedes-maybach-s600-guar...

So let's see what the Cybertruck's VR rating is in a couple of years.

When I'm thinking of armored vehicles I'm thinking of at least 7mm steel to protect against machine guns and even that is paper thin! I got taken down too many times in War Thunder...

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