Today’s warfighter operates in a constantly evolving environment where rapidly improving technologies and diverse combat zones pose increasingly complex threats. Under these conditions, the need for a ...

A new variant of the MC-145B Wily Coyote light attack aircraft lacks certain US SOF-specific equipment but retains its weaponry. Lockheed Martin-owned PZL Mielec and Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) ...

U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, announced Friday it has awarded contracts totaling $19.2 million to five companies to produce prototype aircraft for its Armed Overwatch program. In a notice ...

EGLIN AFB — Testing of aircraft from five different manufacturers, one of which could become an "armed overwatch" platform for the U.S. military's Special Operations forces, reportedly has begun at ...

The military has awarded $19.2 million to five companies for light attack aircraft prototypes capable of flying special operations surveillance and strike missions from airstrips in remote areas. A ...

US Special Operations Command is seeking its own light aircraft to back up operators on the ground. Congress and the Air Force remain wary, but SOCOM has moved ahead, narrowing the competition to five ...