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Offline rangerrebew

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The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
« on: April 28, 2025, 02:06:11 pm »
The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
The M10 Booker busted its requirements from the beginning. It’s a case study in how Army procurement wants to change.
Meghann Myers | April 27, 2025
 
   
As the 101st Airborne Division prepared last year to receive their first M10 Bookers—armored combat vehicles designed specifically for infantry forces—staff planners realized something: eight of the 11 bridges on Fort Campbell would crack under the weight of the “light tank.”

It turns out that though the vehicle was initially conceptualized as relatively lightweight—airdroppable by C-130—the twists and turns of the Army requirements process had rendered the tank too heavy to roll across the infrastructure at the infantry-centric Kentucky post, and nobody had thought about that until it was too late.

“This is not a story of acquisition gone awry,” Alex Miller, the Army’s chief technology officer, told Defense One. “This is a story of the requirements process creating so much inertia that the Army couldn't get out of its own way, and it just kept rolling and rolling and rolling.”

It’s a twist on the classic Pentagon procurement snafu—a program that moves so slowly that it’s outdated by the time it reaches the field.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2025/04/army-made-tank-it-doesnt-need-and-cant-use-now-its-figuring-out-what-do-it/404877/?oref=d1-homepage-top-story
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Re: The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2025, 02:09:10 pm »
Quote from: rangerrebew on April 28, 2025, 02:06:11 pm
a program that moves so slowly that it’s outdated by the time it reaches the field.

HERE is the crux of problems for the military and government in general.


NO SENSE OF URGENCY!!

There is a difference between panic and sense of urgency.
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Re: The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2025, 02:22:02 pm »
NOTHING has changed in 40 years...


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Re: The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2025, 02:30:37 pm »
They just need to change definition of 'light' and rebrand it the Lite Tank ... great taste, less filling, just don't drive it across a bridge.
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Re: The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2025, 02:41:37 pm »
Incompetence is well established in almost everything these days.  Our military is no exception.  The time has come to purge the military of those leaders that fail.  To identify who they are, and get rid of them.

Again, everyone involved with this tank, the planning, development, production, etc in the military, all should be purged from the military.
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Re: The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2025, 04:45:53 pm »
Quote from: DefiantMassRINO on April 28, 2025, 02:30:37 pm
They just need to change definition of 'light' and rebrand it the Lite Tank ... great taste, less filling, just don't drive it across a bridge.
Well, if it can't use bridges, then the design has to be modified to make it amphibious!

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Re: The Army made a tank it doesn’t need and can’t use. Now it’s figuring out what to do with it.
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2025, 05:21:50 pm »
Looks more like a howitzer to me (at least that's what they looked like in the early 70s):
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