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American vehicle manufacturer General Dynamics Land Systems will produce an additional 26 M10 Booker combat vehicles under a US$258 million contract with the US Army.
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The second phase of low-rate initial production order is part of a larger $1.14 billion contract for 96 M10 Booker units signed in June last year.
The diesel engine, four-crew combat vehicle is one of the US Army’s first major combat vehicles produced since the 1980s and features a 105mm main gun, armour, enhanced thermal viewer, smoke grenade launchers, blow-off panels, and automatic fire suppression.
Gordon Stein, General Dynamics Land Systems vice-president and general manager for US operations, said, “We are honoured to continue to manufacture the M10 Booker Combat Vehicle,” he said.
“The M10 provides enhanced firepower for the Army’s Infantry Brigade Combat Teams and has been purpose-built to give them decisive lethality, mobility, and survivability on current and future battlefields.
“We are proud that our years of innovation, research, development, and investment have led to this solution for US soldiers.”
The M10 Booker, formerly known as Mobile Protected Firepower, was renamed after Medal of Honor recipient Private Robert Booker (killed in action during World War II) and Distinguished Service Cross recipient Staff Sergeant Stevon Booker (killed in action in Iraq in 2003).
“The M10 Booker is an armoured 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 armoured vehicles,” said ground combat systems program executive officer Major General Glenn Dean.
