Impervious to drones, missiles and arty..remote piloted killing machines!!!
Posted on 07/17/2024 6:49:21 AM PDT by whyilovetexas111
Well, is it or isn’t it? Is this a light tank or a reconnaissance/observational vehicle? The M10 Booker has raised some eyebrows because it is not clear what role it will play in the future Army force.
It was formerly known as the vague-sounding “Mobile Protected Firepower” platform, prior to its unveiling in 2023.
At that point Army acquisition honchos regarded it as a “combat vehicle.”
Moreover, a U.S. Army general tried to put a finer point on the Booker during its public christening round table event, as reported by the Military Times last year. “[I]n the [U.S.] Army, the historical use of light tanks has been to perform reconnaissance functions. This is not a reconnaissance vehicle,” Major General Glenn Dean said. “It’s not actually a mission match [for a light tank].”
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Yes tanks can only survive on the battlefield now if you have air supremacy. That includes this thing, whatever it’s “mission” is, besides enriching more defense contractors.
It’s not for use abroad. It’s for domestic operations in American cities and towns. America is armed to the hilt with small weapons (rifles and pistols). Tanks and APC’s are the only thing to keep our keepers safe when TSHTF.
“Aren’t tanks dead and buried as we have seen in the Ukraine war?”
Eventually, maybe soon, drones will be mostly neutralized by EMP weapons (probably developed by the Russians first, given what they’ve been able to do in Ukraine, so far at least).
But a tank that has a ‘dumb mode’, where it doesn’t even need a computer to run, could be quite dangerous at that point.
Bottom line is that weapons that seem useless today often find uses in the future.
In a war against a technologically sophisticated opponent, land armored vehicles, naval surface combatants and helicopters are obsolete death traps.Many brave young people will die before the battleship admirals, the calvary generals and the defense industry bureaucrats at the Pentagon realize the obvious and confront reality. Sadly most will be generously pensioned off , live into their dotage and never be held accountable for their stupidity.
It doesn’t look very light to me….
No, they are only dead and buried in a war between retards with DGI drones. But in the real world, a navy Growler, or a EA-37 (replacement for the Sparkvark) world fry those communication links and the fragile electronics of. drone.
They are so backwards over there that they are using trench warfare. The success of the drones over there has more to do with the incompetence of both sides then it does the death of the tank.
Of a special note is the way they send two or three tanks out at a time, somewhere where they have no air superiority.
Hopefully, the US will never be forced to fight a war the way Ukraine and Russia are fighting now -- to us that is pure military insanity, not a "new normal".
Returning to WWI style trench warfare is not our plan.
As for the M10 Booker, it's key advantage is you can put two in a C-17 and three in a C-5 and so transport many to combat zones anywhere on earth, as opposed to the heavier Abrams which can only load one and two respectively.
Tanks are masters of the battlefield when you have air dominance.
Given the Biden Administrations penchant for all things green, I’m surprised it isn’t battery powered.
Let’s see
Cannon in turret - check
Treads - check
Lots of antennas and smoke dispensers - check
Lots like a tank to me. In WWII, this thing would have been the Beast
Just my opinion, and no I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.
Missiles, rockets and drone swarms are the new normal. Direct-fire armor is in its sunset.
Just axin'.
WT...
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