Posted: 04/30/2024
A live fire demonstration of the Army’s newest and most modernized combat vehicle, the M10 Booker, marks the conclusion of the M10 Booker Dedication Ceremony at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Aberdeen, Md., April 18, 2024. (U.S. Army photo by Christopher Kaufmann)
The M10 Booker is a benchmark modernization program, as the acquisition and requirement communities worked together to move this system into production in just under four years. The platform will provide greater survivability, the ability to identify threat systems earlier and at greater distances and will not restrict movement in off-road terrain. It will also allow Soldiers to move at a faster pace, protecting the assaulting force.
The M10 Booker will provide IBCTs with mobile, protected direct-fire capability to apply lethal and sustained long-range fires to light armored vehicles, hardened enemy fortifications and dismounted personnel.
The M10 Booker has a maximum speed of 40 miles per hour and is equipped with a 105mm M35 Primary Weapon, a 7.62mm Coax weapon, a 0.50 M2 commander’s weapon, the Abrams primary weapon sight, and two vehicles can be transported on a C-17.
The 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Liberty will be the first unit to initially operate and test the M10 Booker, starting later this year. Over the next several years, “Mobile Protected Firepower” battalions will be fielded at Fort Johnson, La., Fort Campbell, Ky., Fort Liberty, N.C. and Fort Carson, Colo., and to the National Guard, ensuring our light infantry formations will have the capability they need to fight.
