The Army cancels the M10 Booker, a ‘light tank’ that was too heavy
Story by Matt White • 12h
The Army has officially killed further delivers of the M10 Booker, canceling not just a billion-dollar program to build a heavily-armed vehicle for fast-moving infantry units, but also putting a final answer to an age-old question: is the M10 Booker a tank?
“Now that we’re canceling, you can call it whatever,” Army Secretary Dan Driscoll told reporters Friday, confirming the program’s end.
Cancelling the Booker matches one element of an overhaul ordered by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in how the Army develops and buys weapons.
In a 4-page memo released April 30, he ordered the service to “divest outdated formations, including select armor and aviation units across the Total Army.”
That apparently included the Booker, which discussed Driscoll Friday.
“We got the Booker wrong,” said Driscoll, adding that the Army already has taken delivery of roughly 80 of the tanks. “We wanted to develop a small tank that was agile and could do [airdrops] to the places our regular tanks can’t.”
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