The Mobile Protected Firepower program began with a clear mission: give the 82nd and 101st Airborne protected direct fire ...

Summary: The U.S. Army accepted delivery of the M10 Booker combat vehicle in April, marking the occasion with a christening ceremony. -Designed to enhance infantry brigades, the M10 Booker provides ...

The M10 Booker is a 42-ton combat vehicle the U.S. Army insists is not a tank, even though it carries a 105-millimeter gun ...

The Army is canning the M10 Booker, a tank-like armored vehicle that the service chose less than two years ago as its first major new front-line combat weapon in decades, officials said Monday. The ...

When the U.S. Army fields new equipment, it's a long process of research, development, and testing that doesn't always produce the desired results. This is true of many vehicles and weapon systems ...

M10 Booker Combat Vehicle (pictured) will be put through its paces at Fort Liberty in boreal summer 2024. (US Army photo by Bernardo Fuller) One company in the 82nd Airborne Division will be the first ...

Summary and Key Points: Fort Liberty in North Carolina will soon be the training ground for operators and maintainers of the U.S. Army’s new M10 Booker light tank. -Over the next three months, these ...

The Army officially took delivery of the first M10 Booker Combat Vehicle. The Booker is designed to give extra punch to lightly armed brigade combat teams. The first guns are headed to the 82nd ...

Members of the North Carolina Air National Guard assess an Army M10 Booker Combat Vehicle before it is loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. (Staff Sgt. Reanna Hartgrove/U.S. Air National Guard ...

The Army will not use the M10 Booker light tank after nearly a year of field tests. The decision to scrap the $436 million program is due to the tank's weight and ineffectiveness. The 82nd Airborne ...

June 16, 2025: Last month the U.S. Secretary of Defense announced that the M10 Booker light tank program was cancelled. The tank entered service last year for testing. That would not have turned out ...

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