Rocket-powered semi truck shot into side of trailer – for science!

Scientists shot a rocket-powered semi truck into a very special prototype truck this summer, all in the name of safely transporting nuclear weapons. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) announced the existence of the experiment earlier this month, calling it their largest crash test in two decades. In the crash-test, SNL used rockets to propel a regular semi truck down a track and directly into the side of a new nuclear-weapons-transporter prototype called the ‘Mobile Guardian Transporter.’ This test was conducted to ensure that the transporter is able to withstand an accident without damaging any nuclear weapons on board, and SNL says that it went perfectly.