These Are the 5 Planes Vying to Be AFSOC's New Armed Overwatch Aircraft
These Are the 5 Planes Vying to Be AFSOC's New Armed Overwatch Aircraft A Beechcraft AT-6B Wolverine experimental aircraft flies over White Sands Missile Range, N.M. July 31, 2017. (U.S. Air Force photo/Ethan D. Wagner) 17 May 2021 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 published on the U.S. federal contracting website, SOCOM said that the awards will go to Leidos Inc. of Reston, Virginia; MAG Aerospace of Fairfax, Virginia; Textron ...