Air Force Special Operations Command will find ways to use the OA-1K Armed Overwatch plane in great power competition, commander Lt. Gen. Michael E. Conley said this week, amid questions about the fleet’s size and utility in a changing strategic environment.
Special Operations Command needs to re-look at the number of Sky Warden "Armed Overwatch" aircraft it wants to buy, as it didn't adequately evaluate how many it really needs, the Government Accountability Office said. The Pentagon concurred with GAO's recommendation that the program be slowed ...
Sky Warden, the modified crop-duster U.S. Special Operations Command picked as the winner of its Armed Overwatch competition, has entered low-rate initial production, and the first aircraft is scheduled to be delivered in October, a SOCOM spokesman told Air & Space Forces Magazine. The combatant command ...
The Air Force has tapped Will Rogers Air National Guard Base, in Oklahoma, as the sole candidate location for the formal training unit of the AT-802U Sky Warden—the converted crop duster that won U.S. Special Operation Command’s Armed Overwatch contract. At Will Rogers in Oklahoma City, ...
U.S. Special Operations Command has awarded a contract for its Armed Overwatch program, selecting L3 Harris Technologies’ AT-802U Sky Warden as the winner of its competition for a low-cost aircraft to fly surveillance and strikes in austere locations. The deal could be worth up to ...