The OV-10 Bronco first flew in 1965, nearly a decade before the A-10, and the warplane has been out of active service since 1995. But we know now that last summer two OV-10s flew 120 combat missions, ...

While the Cobras served in the PAF for a short period of just five years, the Broncos were used in the Philippines for over three decades. The Philippine Air Force’s (PAF) 15th Strike Wing retired two ...

Last year we lamented that the OV-10 Bronco the fact that the OV-10 Bronco was never really allowed to reach its full potential and discussed how valuable it, or other aircraft like it, would be in ...

The OV-10 Bronco was a flying and fighting do-all sport utility vehicle. It could loiter for hours, direct fire onto the enemy, pack paratroopers and cargo, or attack with its own weapons. Many think ...

The North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco was a tough, rugged, well-armed aircraft that could take a beating and get the job done. Conceived in a backyard by two Marine friends as a particular aircraft ...

The Philippines has a requirement for a single-engined light attack turboprop as it considers replacing its Rockwell OV-10 Broncos. The new aircraft will need to match the specifications of the OV-10 ...

The Vietnam War-era aircraft is used by the private contractor to train U.S. Air Force Joint Attack Terminal Controllers (JTACs). In March 2020, Blue Air Training, a private contractor headquartered ...

In the 1960s, two U.S. Marines, W.H. Beckett and K.P. Rice, lived next to each other in Santa Ana, California. The two soldiers had a habit of getting together and bemoaning the emerging trends of ...

In the early 1960s, U.S. Marines W.H. Beckett and Colonel K.P. Rice were neighbors in Santa Ana, California. The two men would sit on Beckett’s patio and rant about Navy and Air Force aviation trends, ...

A pair of nearly 50-year-old planes has been brought out of retirement to fight ISIS. The Vietnam-era OV-10 Bronco turbo-propeller planes are part of an experiment to see if “light turbo-prop aircraft ...