Air Force Issues Final RFP to Procure Several Light Attack Aircraft By Year’s End

摘要

The Air Force released a final request for proposals Oct. 24 to procure no more than six lightattack aircraft by the end of the year.The service has planned to buy four to six Textron Aviation [TXT] AT-6 Wolverine and SierraNevada Corp. [SNC]/Embraer Defense & Security A-29 Super Tucano aircraft since early2019. It launched the light attack experiment – also known as OA-X – in 2017 by testing fouroff-the-shelf aircraft, including the A-29 and AT-6, at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, but of late hasreceived skepticism from lawmakers as the scope of the program has significantly decreased(Defense Daily, Sept. 27).