#m10 booker

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M10 Booker live-fire demo

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Who's Better- M10 Booker vs. M1A2 Abrams Tank ?

The M10 Booker and the M1A2 Abrams are both main battle tanks (MBTs) in the service of the United States Army. However, they are designed for different roles and have different strengths and weaknesses. The M10 Booker is a light tank, weighing in at 42 tons. It is smaller and more agile than the M1A2 Abrams, which weighs 70 tons. This makes the M10 Booker easier to transport and deploy, and it…

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In my head, this is the sound the Booker makes — instead of ka-boom, it's a loud KA-BOOOOK!

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M10 Booker LRIP batch reveal!

It sounds so good in Federal Standard 595 Color FS 34079.

Fuck yeah. That's an awesome vehicle.

I always hesitate when I try to figure out what to call the Booker. Is it a light tank? Is it a really heavy IFV? I suppose it'll mostly depend on how it's used, once it actually goes into service. After all, I usually tend to side with the "classification is decided by use, not specs" crowd.

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AFU Motorbike Battalions/Kurins

(based on real life Soviet formations during WW2)

(Inspired by Battle Order's video on Soviet Army motorcycle reconnaisance battalions under division during the Second World War as well as the real life US armored recon units of the same period)

IMU of stories the success of ad-hoc bicycle and motorbike formations in the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the Russian invasion would result in the formation of motorcycle formations of battalion size (called in Ukrainian as Mototsykletnyy batalʹyon) in elements of the armed forces to regularize these. However they follow a Westernized form of the organization of the old Soviet motorbike battalions of mechanized and armored divisions. In cavalry divisions - those armored divisions with cavalry traditions and titles honoring the Ukrainian Cossacks - these units are titled as Kurins (Mototsykletnyy kurin) with its companies named as sotnias. These battalions are armed with primarily Western and locally produced motorcycles and tricycles for their mission as support to recon and combat operations. There's plans to integrate an infantry company to those battalions in the infantry divisions.

In mechanized infantry, assault infantry and mountain infantry divisions they are organized in 4 motorbike companies each with HQ platoon, 4 motorbike platoons (one squad each manned with electric motorcycles), and a mortar and weapons section each. The armored recon company operates M59s and M113s together with the M106 SP mortar and its light tank battalion uses M10 Bookers in its tank platoons and MT-LBs in its infantry and AT platoon. The AT battery uses Jeeps and similar vehicles for the transport of their crew and they are all supported by a forward support company from their parent division and other elements. In a mountain infantry division, an additional squad is tasked within platoons for ski capability.

In a motorized infantry division the motorbike company has no weapons section. The armored recon company is armed with BTR-4s and hand-me-down LAV-3s from the United States and the light tank company uses the M113 and Scorpion.

There's a different TO&E for the battalions in armored divisions. Motorbike battalions in these, alongside the weapons section, are reinforced with two bicycle platoons and a RPG/AT motorcycle section in the motorcycle companies, the armored recon company uses Bradleys, the light tank company, aside from its M10s, uses M113s as mechanized infantry element and there's a assault gun company using Centauros from Italy and the Ukrainian produced MT-LB-12 - inspired by the assault gun troops of cavalry recon squadrons of the United States during the Second World War.

The Motorcycle Kurin of the UGF cavalry division is modeled after the armored division motorcycle battalion but is named and organized in keeping with Ukrainian Cossack cavalry heritage. However it does not have a bicycle nor RPG/AT motorbike section and its AT battery is organized into 4 platoons instead of 3.

In the AAFU's two airmobile divisions, the motorcycle battalion's recon company is armed with M113s and BTR-3s, there's no infantry platoon in the tank company and an airborne transport and rigger platoon for parachute and air assault operations is added to the forward support company.

The two marine divisions of XXX Amphibious Corps UkrMC and the planned motorbike battalions of that Corps in Mykolaiv and Kherson are organized for both ground and amphibious operations as relfected in the addition of an amphious scout platoon. However it does have an added water transport platoon in the forward logistics company for the amphibious element there and the tank company uses M59 Scorpion TDs, AMX-10 RCs and AAVP-7s. Squads using electric bikes are to be transported to the shore via other vehicles in amphibious operations before they can be unloaded for use unlike those using normal motorbikes (and those squads using bicycles) which can land to the coast via landing craft. The same vehicles in an air assault motorbike battalion's armored recon company are used in a marine motorbike battalion.

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Setting Blurb Poll: Help Build the (early) Imperial Armed Forces (pt. 1.5)

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M10 Booker alongside a M1A2 Sep V3 Abrams

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Magic Factory: Modern US Army Crew

Magic Factory has announced the release of a set of new 1/35-scale figures. Magic factory new figures set: 1/35 US Army crew (2020s). Here is the latest resin figure set that could be used with our M10 Booker or Bradley series. Here you will find the latest figures set which can perfectly fit into your M10 Booker or Bradley series. High quality resin is used to reproduce the details of IOTV/MSV…

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M10 Booker during a live fire exercise at Aberdeen Proving Ground.

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GD Land Systems obtiene contrato para herramientas y equipos General Dynamics Land Systems Inc., ... https://ujjina.com/gd-land-systems-obtiene-contrato-para-herramientas-y-equipos/?feed_id=775809&_unique_id=66f478384724e

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Strumenti ed attrezzature per la messa in campo degli M10 Booker Trattasi di un contratto per la fornitura di strumenti ed attrezzature per supportare l'US Army nella messa in campo iniziale dei veicoli da combattimento M10 Booker

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Thoughts on M10 Booker?

I think it's an interesting midpoint in US combined arms doctrine, something of a midpoint between the ultimate flexibility and mass production of the Bradley and the MBT anvil that is the Abrams. If anything, it's a little underpowered and undergunned for its size and level of armor, sitting somewhere around the level of a T-90 in terms of armor, weight, and power, yet only packing an m35 105mm gun. However, over the past 40 or so years, the US has stayed less to a policy of "bigger is better" and instead choosing to assert that superior coordination and equipment has a place on the battlefield.

So, all in all, an interesting addition to the US arsenal, that may signal a change in US combined arms doctrine, as the US hasn't employed anything in a "Light Tank" style role since the trash fire that was the Sheridan.

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Ukrainian 1st Mot Inf Div UGF

Part of VII Army Corps UGF

(This is inspired by Battle Order's video on the experimental Soviet Army light infantry division of 1987 which was trained and formed in Ukraine.)

Raised as part of Westernization and expansion of the UGF in 2023-24, the 1st Mot Inf Div of VII Corps/OC North - one of a number of new divisions being activated along the revival of historic units - will soon be added with its planned light cavalry regiment to its ORBAT later due to NATO and Polish and US influence as part of the force's efforts to defend the nation. As of present just one armored cavalry element is present - the armored cav kurin assigned with the 1st Light Armored BCT.

It is organized into three motorized brigades, one mechanized brigade, one light armored brigade, one field artillery brigade, one air defense artillery brigade, a combat engineer regiment, an army aviation regiment using Western helicopters, support elements, a depot regiment and directly reporting formations including one rifle (Jaeger) infantry regiment and one tank destroyer regiment.

Its motorized brigades are armed with Novators, Humvees and JLTVs alongside a company each of truck-mounted infantry with its artillery battalions armed with the Humvee Hawkeye - an experimental SPG mounted on Humvee chassis, and M10 Bookers in the armored battalions. Their air defense battalions are a mix of towed and wheeled SPAGGs like the Viktor, which is the same systems used by the air defense brigade under divisional command.

However the main mechanized element - the 19th BCT - has a mix of wheeled and tracked infanty carriers in its mechanized infantry regiments and with the same vehicles of the motorized brigades in its motorized and rifle infantry regiments. The 19th Armored Regt operates mainly the T-64 and M48 Pattons as well as a company of Leopard 1s.

103rd FA Brigade operates 3 battalions of towed guns, an administrative regiment of two SPG battalions, each wheeled and tracked, and one MLRS battalion alongside a strike UAV battery under its command.

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