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2023-09-03 Science & Technology

Inside the US Army's latest weapon of war: Officials release specs for new $13M combat vehicle the M10 Booker that they insist is NOT a tank

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [17 views ] Top

#1 Should be easy enough to fix the bore evaluator. Hope they have some new, hot AT rounds because, whatever the planners think, it will be used as a tank when the Abrams is elsewhere.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2023-09-03 06:23|| 2023-09-03 06:23|| Front Page Top

#2 MIC at work. Move along.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-09-03 09:20|| 2023-09-03 09:20|| Front Page Top

#3 The Daily Fail first breathlessly tells us the non tank tank will replace the Abrams. Then it tells us it won't replace the Abrams.

None of the "new technology" that the Fail reports is new. 105mm guns have been around since before WW2, night vision since the 1950s, and so on.

Posted by Too Old To Work 2023-09-03 09:39|| 2023-09-03 09:39|| Front Page Top

#4 But, it will be a flying electric tank, made in China...

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-09-03 09:43|| 2023-09-03 09:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Military inferiority complex. Replace warthog with this?. No way, wait a mike.

Posted by Dale 2023-09-03 09:53|| 2023-09-03 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 Why is my first impression that of the Armada?

Ever since the Abrams replaced the Cold War-era M60 Patton, shuttling tanks across the globe has been a persistent problem for the US military.

But since it is classified as a golf cart, there are no export restrictions.

The M10 Booker is named after World War Two Infantryman Private Robert Booker, who died on April 9, 1943, and Staff Sargeant Stevon Booker, a tanker who was killed in Baghdad on April 5, 2003.

That's gay.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-09-03 10:43|| 2023-09-03 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ No, that's Cory Booker

Posted by Frank G 2023-09-03 11:19|| 2023-09-03 11:19|| Front Page Top

#8 How many Bookers has the IRS and FBI pre-ordered ?

Asking for someone at the office.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-03 12:14|| 2023-09-03 12:14|| Front Page Top

#9 From what I have heard from military sources is this is a modern Sheridan. Designed to be air mobile and follow in light units and engage IFV/APCs and fortified hardpoints. So light tank, but won't replace the Abrams.

We'll see if it works as the Sheridan was a huge piece of shit and even the 82nd hated it.

Posted by DarthVader 2023-09-03 12:38|| 2023-09-03 12:38|| Front Page Top

#10 Biden DOD introduces the new Trans-M109
for future US Civil disturbance control.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-09-03 13:26|| 2023-09-03 13:26|| Front Page Top

#11 /\ What #9 DV said: this a lighter 'strategic mobility' asset and something for the Light Divisions. It kinda sorta does those direct fire close support missions that tanks do ...and yes, from time to time it will have to play with the Big Boys™. The question is 'Where? and Why?' it does: in forests and close terrain the 105mm should work okay but on the plains of Kansas, Iraq or the Ukraine that bigger, harder hitting M-1 just has a certain charm it can't match.

Posted by magpie 2023-09-03 13:55|| 2023-09-03 13:55|| Front Page Top

#12 ...and yes, the M551 Sheridan was a gold-plated dog turd. Fire the high dollar Shillelagh missile or the 152mm stubby main gun which "The recoil from the gun throws all the missile optics off, limiting the use of the M551 to either anti-tank or bunker buster".

Posted by magpie 2023-09-03 14:02|| 2023-09-03 14:02|| Front Page Top

#13 Smaller, transportable? Already done.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-09-03 14:14|| 2023-09-03 14:14|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ No, that's Cory Booker
*snort*

Oh no! that's Cory too!

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-09-03 15:48|| 2023-09-03 15:48|| Front Page Top

#15 A moving foxhole attracts the eye. I wonder why insurance companies won't insure a tank commander?

Posted by Jerens Black9355 2023-09-03 16:46|| 2023-09-03 16:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Ref #2: Exaaaactly.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-03 16:47|| 2023-09-03 16:47|| Front Page Top

#17 Ref #2: Exaaaactly.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-09-03 16:48|| 2023-09-03 16:48|| Front Page Top

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