The Pentagon is trying to figure out what to do with the two dozen vehicles produced before a contract for new armored vehicles was canceled, The Washington Times has reported.

The M10 Booker was to have been the U.S. Army’s first new major combat weapon in decades before it was canceled recently, because the “light” tanks were too heavy to be useful to the paratrooper units for which they were created.

Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll discontinued the Booker program, which had an initial price tag of more than $1 billion, as part of the Trump administration’s spending cuts, telling reporters that “we didn’t design a tank that was effective. We wanted to develop a small tank that was agile and could be dropped into places where regular tanks can’t, [but] we got a heavy tank.”

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