Army Gets Rid of Booker Light Tank as It Flirts with Drones and Robots

Army Gets Rid of Booker Light Tank as It Flirts with Drones and Robots

The Army is canning the short-lived M10 Booker, an armored fighting vehicle, amid concerns over its deployability and relevance on future battlefields -- but the move could also leave infantry units with significantly less firepower.

Army cancels the 'light' tank that was too heavy to be air-dropped or even cross some bridges

The Army is scrapping the M-10 Booker, a tank-like armored vehicle that was the first major front-line combat weapon in decades, because it couldn't carry out its intended mission -- providing firepower for lightly-armed infantry troops such as paratroopers.

Too Heavy, No Mission: Why the US Army Killed the M10 Booker

Key Points: The US Army has cancelled the M10 Booker program, ending years of debate over the vehicle’s confused role—alternately described as a light tank, assault gun, or infantry support vehicle. -Originally intended as a lightweight, air-droppable platform for light forces, the Booker became overweight (~40+ tons) due to requirements creep, rendering it unsuitable for […] The post Too Heavy, No Mission: Why the US Army Killed the M10 Booker …

Was it a Tank? - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Requiem for what may or may not have been a tank: The M10 Booker is dead. What was the M10 Booker? That’s a more complicated question than you probably realize. But now, possibly because no one could figure out what it was, and US Army generals had tired of the conversation, the M10 Booker light tank (or assault gun) project has been canceled. Depending on your perspective, the M10 Booker was an Assault Gun, an Armored Infantry Support Vehicle,…

For U.S. Army technology director Alex Miller, “this is not an acquisition story that went wrong,” but the error is due to a process of requirements that has created “so much inertia that the Army could not get out of its own way, and continued to roll, roll, and roll,” according to American media One Defense. The M10 Booker is a development of General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS), which in mid-2022 won the program called Mobile Protected Fire P…

In the United States as part of the review of the programs of the Armed Forces ordered by the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has been cancelled the purchase already in progress of the vehicle from support fire M10 Booker of the US Army.