no, it's mission statement is more or less exactly the same as a Stug III

the turret isn't really important

Then that would be "M10 Booker Infantry Assault Vehicle"

"Light tank" is a category. Reaching back to WW2 when the term was most relevant, light tanks were used for many different roles, such as reconnaissance, infantry support, and anti-tank vehicles. The name "tank" tends to mean a generalist combat vehicle able to manoeuvre and break through enemy defences, and that would indeed be a description of tanks such as the Italian L6/40, American M3 Stuart, and Japanese Type 97 Chi-Ha (described as a medium tank but more comparable to the Stuart than to the Sherman). But that's not what all these types of vehicles do. Hence to get a better idea of what the vehicle is to be used for, and what it is NOT used for, a more descriptive name should be applied.

In the case of the M10 Booker it's not going to be used for independent manoeuvre and attack, its stated role is as a specialist vehicle to provide anti-structure and anti-tank support to air mobile infantry. So... it's an assault gun really.

If America is constructing a Light Tank Brigade made up of hundreds of M10s structured similarly to their M1 Abrams tank brigades and with the doctrine of manoeuvre and attack just like their tank brigades then yeah I'd call it a Light Tank

This post has been edited by KLthinker91: Aug 24 2023, 03:09 AM

LMAO
As I said before
When it flies let me know

nothing to do with stealth
normal aircraft have been going missing regularly long after the invention of radar and discovered only years later

LTZ I'm curious, have there been no recent pings on ISMERLO? no nearby nations sounded possible alerts for potential sub accidents?

Thanks
So the rumours about somebody's submarine weren't true...

Yeah
Some rumour on that flying around

Not surprised
But at least 1 rumour confirmed not true la... neighbouring countries didn't receive an alert
Unless our Mindef knows something you don't