Posted on 06/17/2023 5:51:06 PM PDT by McGruff
One of the Army’s most hotly anticipated new combat vehicles certainly looks like a tank. It is covered with protective armor, runs on tracks, and features a powerful 105mm main gun. But when is a tank not a tank? When it’s an M-10 Booker combat vehicle.
Formerly known as the “Mobile Protected Firepower” system, the Booker is the Army’s first new major combat vehicle in two decades. It makes its debut in the midst of a raging debate among generals and strategists over the traditional tank’s future on a battlefield some say will be dominated by satellite-guided drones and long-range precision artillery.
Some say the tank is on the fast track to obsolescence, while others argue the ground-focused, trench fighting between Ukraine and Russia over the past 16 months suggests the death of the tank has been highly exaggerated.
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Will Schryver
@imetatronink
Yuri Podolyaka has been, in my estimation, one of the better [Russian] correspondents of this war. His reports have been consistently restrained, mostly lacking hyperbole. That puts in proper context his shocking report of today’s battle:
https://twitter.com/imetatronink/status/1670209617090191360
It’s a tank, Jim.
What they need is a remote drone style tank.
Story to above dead Leopard pic.
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2023/06/16/bce-the-coping-has-started/
I saw that on Twitter. Depressing if true.
Does it run on batteries?
OK, as long as each tank includes its own air wing of 8 UAV-drones’s - 3 flying anti-drone-UAV air cover and observation.
Bkmk
Wrong thread.
2023
Liberals can’t identify what a woman is
Military can’t identify what a tank is
Last year the service selected the General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) prototype over BAE Systems’ design. The winning vehicle will eventually be crewed by four soldiers — a commander, a gunner, a loader, and a driver — and includes the XM35 105 mm cannon, a coaxial machine gun, and a diesel engine, according to the company and the Army.
“The M10 Booker is an armored vehicle that is intended to support our infantry brigade combat teams by suppressing and destroying fortifications, gun systems, entrenchments, and, secondarily, then providing protection against enemy armored vehicles,” Maj. Gen. Glenn Dean, the program executive officer for ground combat systems, told reporters.
https://breakingdefense.com/2023/06/mobile-protected-firepower-m10-booker-combat-vehicle-rename/
A tank by any other name would look the same.
With today’s use of drones on the battlefield, tanks are death traps. Sadly my son did not head my advice and is currently a tank driver in the Army. Hope that we stay the h3ll out of Ukraine, Russia is destroying every Ukrainian tank that it see’s well before they actually makes the combat line.
I’m watching WWII documentaries. Yes, there were armored things running on caterpillar tracks with big guns that weren’t tanks.
We’ll pray for your son’s safety.
“...a coaxial machine gun”
Huh? A small barrel inside a big barrel?
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