The M10 Booker began life as the Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower program, a “light tank” meant to give infantry brigades mobile, protected direct fire without the logistical burden of an Abrams.

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 in North Carolina on Aug. 3, 2024. The Army has ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Washington (June 11, 2025) – In response to current world events and in support of the strategic objectives outlined in the Army Transformation Initiative, the U.S. Army has issued a termination for ...

The US is canceling its M10 Booker program, citing design flaws and redundancies. The light assault vehicle was deemed too heavy for its intended use. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he plans to ...

June 11 (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday said it would cancel plans to procure M10 Booker combat vehicles that it had agreed to in a 2022 contract with General Dynamics Land Systems (GD.N), opens ...

It was not long ago that the former Army Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville said that America's “Army is undergoing its greatest transformation in over forty years." That transformation included the ...

The Army has put an end to the M10 Booker program in the midst of low-rate production as it pivots to a focus on a highly mobile, lighter force. Military Times © 2025 ...