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The United States Army announced it was canceling the M10 Booker, which was developed as part of the Mobile Protected Firepower Vehicle (MPFV) program. Designed by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) to enhance the U.S. Army’s Infantry Brigade Combat Teams (IBCTs), the vehicle entered low-rate initial production (LRIP) last July.
However, the service opted to cancel the program just hours after U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and top Army official introduced a massive service-wide shake-up that calls for combining the Army Futures Command and Training and Doctrine Command. The service has also halted the Robotic Combat Vehicle (RCV) program while it has paused the new howitzer competition.
Around 80 of the M10s have already been delivered. More
Sounds like taxpayers might prefer booger for the name. More wasted tax dollars down the money pit hole.
“Booker!!!!”
I want one to get around town here in Florida to keep from getting run over by the Snowbirds and Tourists.
air force b-36 with a nuke-reactor on board, divad air-defense vehicle, navy stealth plane a-?, army man-portable tac-nuke davy crockett, navy aluminum/electric floating littoral pos, air force flying edsel f-35…there are others
^^^^*Zumwalt, with a railgun—no, wait…with a hypersonic missile—okay, a hypersonic missile launcher , still working on the missile…
Booker is already obsolete in the age of drones. Of course, that’s not why they are canceling it. Or at least that’s not why they say they are canceling it, anyway. I’d like to think our brass has learned some lessons from the Ukraine fiasco, but I’m not very optimistic about that.
The DoD needs to rework the 344mm Lepage glue gun so that it glues a whole swarm of drones together in mid-air.
If it’s anything like the latest offerings from the automakers, they will be better off refurbishing what’s left of the Abrams fleet.
General Dynamics had a “right-to-repair” agreement attached to the Booker, which meant only they could repair them. That and the thing was too heavy to airlift meaningfully were key reasons why this contract was ended.
right-to-repair = nlawyer bullshit. adm. hyman rickover: gd would just as soon sell the navy a horse turd as a submarine, as long they get their profit…cheap, no-class mofos for decades.
as long as they…
but the brain-dead congress/service cunts will continue to press for the extinction of the ageless & useful warthog
Eye-gore!
I came here to say exactly that.
anything effective, simple/user-friendly, and easily maintained must be gotten rid of!
—lawyer-dindus
Sounds like the usual bureaucrat inspired scope creep. A “light” tank gets gradually transformed into a colossus on the excuse of “safety” and “force readiness” when the real problem is that, if built to sane specifications, it’s too cheap to make, and that just won’t do.
earth to dod: world’s most wwidely-used “ar”, the ak-47 was not designed here