A problem in which toxic gas would fill the turret after the main gun was fired 'is an issue that is behind us,' and another where the vehicle would overheat under hot performance conditions was resolved after engineers fixed an air flow problem at the rear of the M10.īush dispelled another rumor: That a shortage of 105mm shells was the result of ammunition being sent to Ukraine. It wasn't without developmental issues, though Bush assured reporters that the worst issues have been resolved.

With a 105mm main gun and an armored chassis reminiscent of the Soviet BMP-2, famed for being nearly impregnable from the front, the Booker is designed to give infantry hung up on fortifications the punch needed to break through any obstacle or position. The nature of both soldiers' valor - killed during violent infantry combat, one alongside an Abrams, one as a dismount - underscores the need for a vehicle like the Booker. The Booker Combat Vehicle is also named for Robert Booker, who was awarded the Medal of Honor after being killed in action while under heavy machine-gun fire in Tunisia on April 9, 1943, during World War II. Stevon Booker, who was killed in action in Iraq on April 5, 2003, during the Thunder Run in Baghdad.īooker, who was with an Abrams tank, was subsequently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. While not the first Army vehicle to be named for two people - the Army's Stryker bears that distinction - the Booker is the first to be named for a post-9/11 veteran, Staff Sgt. On Thursday, Dean and Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, talked with reporters at the Pentagon about the new vehicle and how it came to be named.

Glenn Dean, program executive officer of Army Ground Combat Systems. 'The M10 Booker is an armored vehicle that is intended to support our Infantry Brigade Combat Teams by suppressing and destroying fortifications, gun systems and trench routes, and then secondarily providing protection against enemy armored vehicles,' said Maj.

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